If you are looking for low-priced servers I can highly reccomend HETZNER[0].
They are even cheaper then scaleway and I had no problems so far.
They are even cheaper then scaleway and I had no problems so far.
That said, the prices actually look pretty competetive and are indeed cheaper than Scaleway's offerings. However, Scaleway also recently came out with more cost effective instances, called Stardust (though the specifications are somewhat limited): https://blog.scaleway.com/a-star-is-born-as-scaleway-launche...
Personally, i use Time4VPS for my VPSes, which is a somewhat small daughter company of a larger Lithuanian telecom (Interneto vizija). Affiliate link, if anyone is interested in having a look: https://www.time4vps.com/?affid=5294
I've been using them for a few years, the uptimes and the performance both are generally pretty good, can even self-host an e-mail server and the few IPv4 addresses i've had from them haven't been blacklisted anywhere. However, they don't directly compete with SaaS or PaaS like AWS's or Scaleway's managed offerings.
They have proper support lines where one can call and ask. (At least this was so a couple of years ago, no need to call support since then..).
In my subjective opinion, a better question would be: Why would they reject an ID/passport with some details blacked out?
The ID card and the passport both have serial numbers on them, as well as sufficient information (issuer country and the institution within the country), that any decent implementation of validating such data should be able to look it up.
As for the blacked out fields - they contain information pertaining to my social identification code, one that should be kept private under most circumstances (analogous to social security number in the US). It feels like that information could:
- provide absolutely no benefit to them
- compromise my privacy, should it be leaked due to improper handling of that data on their end
If not providing such sensitive information is grounds for denying account verification and termination of an account, then i'm perfectly fine with that and will simply look elsewhere, for other services. Other people may disagree with that and provide any and all information, the handling of which they deem acceptable, which is okay (hence, i mentioned that others' experience might be more positive/successful in that regard).
Maybe someone who works in the industry (not Hetzner in particular) and has worked with similar systems in the past may comment on what the mechanisms for validating ID cards and such are, and which bits of data are necessary and which aren't?
1. Why does some webhost think it gets to ask for your passport?
Lol the second they get hacked you have a world class identity theft nightmare
Go to a host where asking for your most protected personal information isn't part of doing business. This is absolutely ridiculous
Nice that you have options which meet your wishes. But I like the way Hetzner is doing business (not to mention the great quality-price ratio which is hard to find elsewhere).
A better question is why would they? Sending an unredacted copy of my ID to some foreign company just to buy some hosting would seem crazy to me.
Here's a quote from their authentication email when I signed up a few years ago:
> As a new customer, we kindly request that you provide us with a copy (scan/photo) of your passport or ID card for authentication purposes. You can blur or block out information that is not necessary for authentication.
I sent in a picture of my driver's license with everything except my photo, name, and address blacked out, and they approved it. (In hindsight I'm not even sure why I didn't black out the photo part.)
For cheaper (and other options in the same range or more expensive too) in a large array of configurations https://www.serverhunter.com/ and https://en.metadedi.net/ are useful resources, though obviously do a little research before signing up for a host based on it being cheap.
Only issue I have with them is that there's no way to get 10gbit/s (not even burstable) and that you don't get datacenters outside of Europe.
Not affiliated with them, just a very happy customer.
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