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Hetzner legal team threatening me for naming them

General Discussion by tomchan 3 replies 156 views
14 #1

So here's a fun little project I've been running — got a cloud VPS from Hetzner for like €4/month, it actually works for my reverse proxy setup. But they went dark for 3 weeks, no tickets answered, node down. I posted about it on my blog, named them, and now I got an email from "their legal team" demanding I take it down or face "defamation proceedings."

Is it okay to name bad hosts here? I thought warning others was the whole point of communities like this. My config for reference, nothing fancy:

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name lab.example.com;
    location / { proxy_pass http://10.0.0.5; }
}

What's the etiquette? I don't want to get sued over a €4 VPS.

works on my bench ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
#2

Will name bad host if the host bad. Two server from Hetzner, both down, ticket no reply 22 day. This forum for warning, no XD

uptime

The uptime command show 0 day. You see.

12 #3

#naming #and #shaming #is #free #speech #but #check #your #local #laws #hashtag #legal #threats #are #usually #empty #hashtag #Hetzner #sounds #scared #hashtag

grabs popcorn, checks /r/drama
2 #4

So why they threaten you? The server was cheap, but no service. This is classic. What country they register? If not EU or US, legal letter is worth nothing. Post the letter, let us see. I get this from RackNerd once, ignore, nothing happen.

your margin is my opportunity

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