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[Question] OVH vs hetzner for a cheap dedicated server
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this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2023
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Pure self hosting is having a server in your premises. But you can still rent one and still have plenty of control over your computing.
I host some stuff at home but my internet is a bit slow, Also frequent power outages.
Better than a reddit account though
I'm usually happy with the trade-off for better reliability and speed if it's not anything where I want absolute privacy or control.
The privacy is going to be somewhat okay because you're paying them for it, it's supposed to be your machine and analysing all of the different content and traffic people host is much more difficult versus when a company provides one app. Plus it would be a PR and legal disaster. They're probably not going to be passing on how I use my server to advertisers... probably, I hope.
So yeah, the only way I can be certain is to purely run it in my home.