<story><title>Hetzner Introduces ARM64 Cloud Servers</title><url>https://www.hetzner.com/press-release/arm64-cloud/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Galaco</author><text>Never figured out how to use Hertzner. Wanted to try since they get such a good reputation on here, but they banned my account when their system presented no way for me to verify my identity.&lt;p&gt;The required either PayPal or passport. I have no PayPal account, and their 3rd party verification system only allows passport from your country of residence (signup requires providing a contact address and they pre fill using this address; you can’t change the passport country). I am a British citizen living in Japan, and therefore hold a British passport; there was no way for me to provide a Japanese passport. I asked what I should do to comply, and they banned my account 6 hours later.&lt;p&gt;I can’t be the only one to experience this, can I?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nr2x</author><text>I’m currently setting up infrastructure for a startup and it’s been very interesting how the threat model of data loss and disaster recovery is no longer hardware failure: it’s account lock out.&lt;p&gt;I’ve got streaming replication of my core data going from one cloud company to other company as that way if one has some antifraud system go rogue on me I still have access.&lt;p&gt;As somebody who used to spend a lot of time thinking about drives breaking it’s an interesting shift.</text></comment>
<story><title>Hetzner Introduces ARM64 Cloud Servers</title><url>https://www.hetzner.com/press-release/arm64-cloud/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Galaco</author><text>Never figured out how to use Hertzner. Wanted to try since they get such a good reputation on here, but they banned my account when their system presented no way for me to verify my identity.&lt;p&gt;The required either PayPal or passport. I have no PayPal account, and their 3rd party verification system only allows passport from your country of residence (signup requires providing a contact address and they pre fill using this address; you can’t change the passport country). I am a British citizen living in Japan, and therefore hold a British passport; there was no way for me to provide a Japanese passport. I asked what I should do to comply, and they banned my account 6 hours later.&lt;p&gt;I can’t be the only one to experience this, can I?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nixass</author><text>&amp;gt; The required either PayPal or passport&lt;p&gt;I had similar struggles with some non-IT service providers in Germany. They couldn&amp;#x27;t fathom why I have non-German nationality, German address and driving license from third country.
Passport, German address and driving license all have different address on them (all three being EU addresses).
It is apparently huge red flag in EU in 21st century.
Incredible</text></comment>