<story><title>Hetzner Cloud</title><url>https://www.hetzner.com/cloud</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pulse7</author><text>If they open a DC in the US, then - by the US laws - their US company will have to provide the data even from German DCs when requested by the US government. So it is maybe better not to enter the US...</text></item><item><author>mythz</author><text>Been using Hetzner for years, their hardware&amp;#x27;s has been rock solid, predictable pricing with sweet price&amp;#x2F;performance ratio resulting in large savings from consolidating existing AWS EC2 instances.&lt;p&gt;Still using AWS for Apps which rely on cloud features, e.g. SES&amp;#x2F;RDS&amp;#x2F;etc but for static servers Hetzner is now our goto.&lt;p&gt;Super exciting to see them entering the cloud space and offering easy snapshots + backups, should open it to hosting more stuff on there.&lt;p&gt;The one difference is noticeable latency from their DC in Germany vs the instant response times I was getting from AWS&amp;#x27;s N.Virgina DC. Would obviously love it if Hetzner could open a DC in the US.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>curun1r</author><text>Perhaps Canada could be a location that&amp;#x27;s beyond US jurisdiction but mostly solves the SoL problem.</text></comment>
<story><title>Hetzner Cloud</title><url>https://www.hetzner.com/cloud</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pulse7</author><text>If they open a DC in the US, then - by the US laws - their US company will have to provide the data even from German DCs when requested by the US government. So it is maybe better not to enter the US...</text></item><item><author>mythz</author><text>Been using Hetzner for years, their hardware&amp;#x27;s has been rock solid, predictable pricing with sweet price&amp;#x2F;performance ratio resulting in large savings from consolidating existing AWS EC2 instances.&lt;p&gt;Still using AWS for Apps which rely on cloud features, e.g. SES&amp;#x2F;RDS&amp;#x2F;etc but for static servers Hetzner is now our goto.&lt;p&gt;Super exciting to see them entering the cloud space and offering easy snapshots + backups, should open it to hosting more stuff on there.&lt;p&gt;The one difference is noticeable latency from their DC in Germany vs the instant response times I was getting from AWS&amp;#x27;s N.Virgina DC. Would obviously love it if Hetzner could open a DC in the US.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>revelation</author><text>Actually, Microsofts challenge is still pending at the Supreme Court, no?</text></comment>