What region is the midwest.social server running in? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by h14h@lemmy.world to c/main@midwest.social

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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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[-] mouse@midwest.social 11 points 1 year ago

It looks like it's hosted in Germany.

[-] CedarMadness@midwest.social 16 points 1 year ago

Of course, the midwest of Europe

[-] FormerGameDev@midwest.social 20 points 1 year ago

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

[-] seahorse@midwest.social 21 points 1 year ago

That is why, yes.

[-] mouse@midwest.social 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] h14h@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Makes sense, thanks!

[-] FoxBJK@midwest.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

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