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What region is the midwest.social server running in? (self.main)

submitted 2 years ago by h14h to c/[email protected]

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I've been pretty intrigued by regional communities in the fediverse era, since knowing your users' likely location allows you run your server nearby to maximize performance.

Having just learned about midwest.social, that got me curious -- what region is the server running in?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It looks like it's hosted in Germany.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Of course, the midwest of Europe

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I believe one of the admins said that it was hosted in Germany because of their data privacy protections

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

That is why, yes.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Thank you for this. I also enjoy not having captchas because I use Tor/VPN.

[–] h14h 5 points 2 years ago

Makes sense, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

More specifically, when I looked it up I saw DigitalOcean as the provider. I like them! Been using them for my personal VPS for years now.