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Should be ok for encrypted backups. I wouldn't trust a British company with anything sensitive, given their government's policy on privacy.
by BoardsOfCanada 12y ago
Should be ok for encrypted backups. I wouldn't trust a British company with anything sensitive, given their government's policy on privacy.
- dewey 12y agoOVH is a french company, if you read their terms the contract is between you and OVH France.
- BoardsOfCanada 12y agoOk, thanks, assumed it was British because the prices were in pounds on linked page. EDIT: And now I see they were in euro, not my best day.
- msh 12y agoAre France any better? they outlawed encryption long after the Americans had given up on it.
- dewey 12y agoProbably not, just trying to keep the facts straight. Offsite backups should always be encrypted on the client side, so it doesn't really matter where the provider is located or if it's trustworthy. (except for things like reliability / retrievability).
- msh 12y agoCan't disagree with that.
- renaudg 12y agoThat is quite an outlandish statement, encryption is absolutely not outlawed in France. The government is however, currently brewing an awful local version of the Patriot Act just as the US seems to be dismantling it.
- msh 12y agoPlease read the history of encryption, France outlawed it for many years and then in the start only allowed weak encryption.
- pyvpx 12y agoyes, but where the equipment is physically located is often of the most importance.
- dewey 12y agoIndeed, in that case all three data centers are located in france. [0] > The hubiC infrastructure is made up of 3 server pools, each one with several hundreds of servers and physically hosted in 3 geographically distant OVH datacentres: two in the north of France and one in the west. [0] https://hubic.com/en/data-security https://hubic.com/en/data-security