Where do people who self-host their websites, mastodon instances etc. actually host things these days?
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@ErictheCerise Hetzner: The last couple of weeks I saw a lot of people here saying they'd arbitrarily shut down accounts. There was this, for example: https://ursal.zone/@Ursalzona/112259839960115911
I also saw (but haven't saved links) some accusations of them enabling homophobic abuse, but I don't know the up and down of that.
(I phrased it as a question because I don't *know* if they're villains now, that was just the tenor of the conversation on the bits of the fediverse I frequent the last few weeks.)
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@monospace The last couple of weeks I saw a lot of people here saying they'd arbitrarily shut down accounts. There was this, for example: https://ursal.zone/@Ursalzona/112259839960115911. I also saw (but haven't saved links) some accusations of them enabling homophobic abuse, but I don't know the up and down of that.
(My own experiences with Hetzner were positive, but also about 20 years ago.)
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Huh. That's ... disconcerting.
Watching the whole world swing Right is scary as hell, but watching Germany do it, is just some next-level shit.
I hope it's as simple as an evil Corporate "save money" decision, and not some moral position.
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@monospace This is why I phrased it as a question, though I can see now (where I'm not quite as tired as I was yesterday evening; I'd had a terribly rough day) that it reads like I'm making a statement about Hetzner and a question about DO.
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@monospace FTR, I asked about those two specific companies because they're the only ones I have actual experience with myself - and the last couple of weeks I've seen a lot of people here on fedi raging about both; I don't know the up and down of half of it.
(My old uni mates and I rented a box on Hetzner for some shared projects for a while after we graduated, and I've used DO to host some minor things more recently.)
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@datarama ay... we really need to standardize a higher baseline internet speed worldwide.
Depending on what you want to host, a slow connection may be enough (personal website f.e).
Mastodon however may be heavier (and in my brief experience, balloons up fast in storage requirements!), in that case you'd likely be better off hosting somewhere in the "cloud", seems like you got a lot of responses about that