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Toulouse, and I have tried both. OVH NAT is €3.50 but the control panel is a disaster and port allocation takes hours. Hetzner is instant via API. For €0.50 more I know which I pick.

Toulouse. No opinion on Ohio. But on specificity:

I once needed ARM in Paris region specifically. Not "France." Paris. For regulatory.

Took six months. Eventually rented apartment, put server in closet, ran fiber. Extreme. But specific requirements breed extreme solutions.

Your 5950x in Ohio migh...

In France I would check CNIL guidance on this. Shared key between tenants might fall under "mesures de securite appropriees" depending on what data you handle. Not saying it's forbidden, but I would document the risk analysis.

For my own stuff in Toulouse I use individual certs with acme.sh and OVH...

In France we have legal protections for consumers on prepaid services. I would never prepay 5 years but 1 year is manageable, you can sometimes get partial refund through chargeback if they disappear. Not legal advice, just experience.

Toulouse. I watch peering and routing. Acquisition often means network consolidation—your traffic suddenly trombones through Amsterdam or Frankfurt when it used to stay regional.

MTR is free intelligence. If latency to Paris jumps 15ms because you're now backhauled to Amsterdam, they moved your VM...

Docker? Nothing but just cgroups and namespaces and you do not need it for traffic shaping systemd-networkd supports cake directly now þis is þe way containers at home are a trap for people who cannot read man pages þe old tools work fine

In France we have "troubles anormaux de voisinage" -- abnormal neighborhood disturbance. Heat, noise, smell. Your exhaust hose is basically a confession. I keep mine in a garage near Blagnac, landlord knows, writes it off as "atelier informatique."