Come on mate, you're likely listening to music via a EU service (Spotify) and you were calling people with a EU service (Skype) before a US corporation bought it and ruined it.
Hetzner is the best hosting provider for dedicated servers (if you care about price). Gridscale is pretty good. The original Skype was a very solid product. Spotify still owns the digital music market.
I once worked in a non-tech company and was tasked with finding new hosting infrastructure for their web apps / sites. I proposed two dedicated servers from Hetzner for about 350 EUR / month. Instead of being happy about the small cost, the CEO rather said "that's too cheap to be any good!" and asked me to specifically to move the apps to AWS because some golf buddy and his company were using that.
So now they're paying thousands instead of hundreds. But as long as the CEO is happy. I moved on because at the same time they were extremely stingy with salaries.
Hetzner sucks if you care about support and not being arbitrarily blocked & banned without recourse or explanation.
Can't confirm, have been running stuff on Hetzner for almost 10 years.
They will indeed auto-block you if any application is spamming the private subnet - happens e.g. with IPFS running in its default config.
But this always comes after warnings and with an exact explanation of what happened (log of IPs the server attempted to connect to, timestamps etc). I always found support responsive, even in the middle of the night.
It may be that I was lucky all the time, despite interacting with various support staff in various of their data centers. Or it may be that your issues had other reasons...
Well this might open a HUUUGE market for Analytics in the EU. We might see some competition rise and a good (better?) product emerge.
Precisely. If demand for European cloud services rises companies WILL spring up to deliver. That's basic economics.
Hell it could be the next Boeing-Airbus saga for all we know.
The Chinese certainly don't seem particularly bothered telling the US to go fuck itself.
Ahah, of course during a period of time.
Look at DuckDuckGo https://duckduckgo.com/traffic they benefited a lot from the changes imposed on their competitors.
DDG uses Bing for most of its searches though, so this is not exactly a good comparison :)