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Is the location of the cloud-server still Nürnberg/Falkenstein? The prices seem to be very low.
by realPubkey 9y ago
Is the location of the cloud-server still Nürnberg/Falkenstein?
The prices seem to be very low.
- etaty 9y agoyes, it is. German laws for data protection apply.
- eb0la 9y agoNot German, but European Laws apply. This ( http://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/oj http://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/oj ) replaces all data proyection laws in the EU. Must comply now, but sanctions won't be in effect until may 25th.
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- jo909 9y agoEDIT: I seem to be wrong. This is a hybrid of a EU regulation that needs to be implemented into local law, and "EU law" that has direct application everywhere. Also there are specific rules on how much stronger the member states can make their local rules. I'm leaving my error in the text below. That is not technically correct, and the difference matters. The EU regulation forces it's members to implement their own local laws in alignment to the EU regulation. The EU regulation can get a member state into trouble if not implemented in time or correctly. They describe a set of "baseline" data protection laws for the whole EU, but the members can still have stronger local rules. Only the local law is what can get a resident company in trouble. Germany has (had for a long time) very strong data protection laws that are still going to be stronger than the EU regulation.
- lucideer 9y agoYour comment is not strictly "wrong", as you say, it's just that the law is changing. The new regulation comes in* on May 25th. Your comment correctly describes the current system, which is being replaced. * By "comes in", I mean begins being enforced. There's been a 2 year grace period as advance notice.
- scboffspring 9y agoLooks like it, according to the features/location: We host our cloud instances in our own data centers in Nuremberg and Falkenstein. And we operate our data centers in accordance with ISO 27001 guidelines while also adhering to strict German data protection regulations.
- Maakuth 9y agoThey are also in process of building out in Finland (https://www.cinia.fi/en/archive/hetzner-data-center-park-helsinki-takes-form-next-units-to-arise-in-2018.html https://www.cinia.fi/en/archive/hetzner-data-center-park-hel...). There's a direct GER-FIN fiber link laid in the Baltic, owned partially by Hetzner (https://www.cinia.fi/en/services/international-connectivity-services/c-lion1-submarine-cable.html https://www.cinia.fi/en/services/international-connectivity-...).
- dx034 9y agoMakes Finland sense if you want to connect to Asian customers? Is there a good link Finland-JP/Korea/Singapore? Otherwise I fail to see why Finland makes sense, unless you need cheaper energy for applications that don't need low latency.
- seqastian 9y agoCheaper to keep cool.
- Maakuth 9y agoWe do have cheap energy (from nuclear and mostly renewable CHP), cheap cooling, availability of educated workforce and stable state. And good network connections to Russia in addition to Nordic and Baltic states and continental Europe.
- dx034 9y agoBut latency to Russia and Baltic states isn't that different from where Hetzner already is. I just try to understand why people would choose Hetzner's new DC in Finland over that in Germany unless they offer cheaper prices there.
- nirv 9y agoThat's interesting! Thanks for pointing out.
- Hetzner_OL 9y agoHetzner Cloud servers are based in Nürnberg and Falkenstein.
- ctack 9y agoI wish they'd offer could service hosted in South Africa.