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Hetzner Considered Hostile: A PSA

"On 8 October 2024 I received an email from Hetzner. This was a forwarded abuse report. As is standard practice in the web hosting business Hetzner forwarded this to me so I could take action on it.

This was no ordinary abuse report. This was targeted harassment from a threat actor that has been harassing me and my friends for a long time. Now they have started targeting Ten Forward itself in an attempt to cause disruption in the day to day operations of Ten Forward."

tenforward.blog/hetzner-consid…

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in reply to Guinan

Hetzner hosts the majority of fediverse instances as per @benjojo's stats:

blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/who-ho…

51%.

mastodon.social is hosted by Hetzner. Now there is certainly plenty of so-called pornographic material on mastodon.social.

I've been informed that this is a Germany thing and all hosting providers in Germany are like this.

So if you are hosting your fediverse instance on a German hosting provider, consider it a hostile environment.

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