I’m a happy customer there.
- 1TB for 5€ is cheaper than others (e.g., Apple 200GB for 3€)
- hosted in Germany
- it is a NextCloud instance which means apps for all kinds of OSs are available
- you can install NextCloud apps for more than just storage
I’m a happy customer there.
I think none of us have to worry about privacy on hetzner too much - we’re simply not that interesting.
Having said that, ideologically I cannot use them due to them facilitating a MitM attack. Not sure if this is the original, but if you’re curious about the low level detail - you can read through it here.
About the mitm. I couldn’t find in the text a report of how the mitm attack was done. How was the network reconfigured. If Russia got the password for example and used that hetzner and linode aren’t at fault.
It’s there. Hetzner helped with issuing a lets encrypt cert for the mitm proxy. The only reason they got caught was because they forgot to renew it. So while the real owner had all certs in order, the mitm proxy was serving an expired one.
Fair point.
I also don’t like that NextCloud is implemented in PHP but at least it is widely used and gets some attention.
As much as I dislike php - nextcloud seems to be developed in a decent way. Been running a personal publicly exposed instance for 7 years now - no security concerns so far.