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I tried to sign up for a basic VPS on Hetzner, they said my information was suspect, even after already purchasing VPS with these companies:

Amazon Lightsail

Atlantic.Net

DigitalOcean

Google Compute Engine

Linode Shared

Vultr

kamatera

lunanode

upcloud

I tried to give them the benefit of the doubt, but once they asked for a photo of my drivers license, I gave up. no thanks, I will just stick with Digital Ocean.

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Due to their really low prices and the fact that they don't force you to prepay for your VMs they get a lot of spammers/scammers, so while this is unfortunate it is somewhat understandable.

I've been using them for a few years already and only have good things to say.

Not sure why you defend this practice. No other hosting provider requires copies of their user's passports.

I am also unable use Hetzner, due to their overreaching security process.

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