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.
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...
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.
it is not so easy for Google. The US side will always demand stuff from them. At least for having the ability.
Microsoft once had the right™ offering: Deutsche Telekom running the Azure data center, so it's the same software etc., but legally fully separated. Didn't get many customers (I don't know what kind of restrictions there were)
It is just as easy as it is to run EU things in the US.
Google can run the same servers and stuff in Europe with European stuff in their own servers. They just disable things not allowed in EU and don't send user data to the US.
Cloudflare currently uses a similar arrangement with JD Cloud to offer service in China. It'd be pretty funny if they had to use the same approach in Europe.
If I'm understanding this correctly there is nothing google can actually do. The problem is the US Cloud Act as the linked article mentions, which is in direct violation of article 44 of GDPR.
Based on the results of GDPR, it'll probably just result in more annoying sites that users will avoid due to all of the pop up banners. Hopefully I'm wrong, I wish there was strong competition from Europe
An optimistic take would be that this forces European companies to think through their analytics/ad needs again, perhaps resulting in less invasive solutions and thus fewer popups/banners and improved privacy.
At least that is what I'm hoping for, however unrealistic it might be.