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Tried to set up an account with Hetzner. They said I am "increased risk" and want me to take a photo of my passport. What?

145 sats \ 2 replies \ @sox 15h

Hetzner doesn't mess around. They emailed me daily when I had an exposed opensearch port, because that version had a privilege escalation vulnerability, and kept emailing me until I fixed it.

Another cool thing is that I was able to get a Ryzen 3700x, 64GB RAM, 2x 1TB SSD in RAID5 for just 30 euros/month with their server auctions. It's nuts how inexpensive it can be.

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Nice. I'd spring for that too. Do you basically keep it as long as you pay the monthly fee?

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68 sats \ 0 replies \ @sox 14h

Yup! The best thing is that you're not renting a VPS (a virtual server, inside of a bigger server, that shares the resources with its virtual server siblings), you're renting a bare metal dedicated machine.

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Did you mention Bitcoin in your application?

Apparently they turn a blindish eye if they don't know and your usage doesn't pop up on their radar. But if they catch a whiff of anything crypto (and yes, they lump Bitcoin into that,) they'll ban/deny you.

Or maybe you sounded like a clawnker? A risky one to boot. Well done!

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No, I didn't mention anything at all during account setup, they never asked me

apparently this is pretty standard though, due to EU regulations

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Fair enough.
Not being a member of the Brussels apparatchik makes you a risk by default.

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makes sense! i'm a filthy american

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If you get that a lot (I got it with OVH) then there's always njal.la

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