"Digital Sovereignty" for Hosting and More
Last winter we recalled our migration to the UK, for hosting in particular (the site had already been UK-based since 2013). The pages are now served a lot faster, at least to UK destinations, and there are more ways to protect the site from Americans who blackmail US-based webhosts (when contacting British ISPs and British webhosts it never worked; not even once).
There has been a lot of discussion lately about digital sovereignty and misguided outsourcing (due to Amazon's AWS, Microsoft's Azure, and Clownflare downtimes). Those seem relevant to our decisions, particularly those made in recent years. We try to walk the walk, not just "talk the talk" (the latter is so much easier than leading by example). We "waddle the waddle"...
To embrace digital sovereignty means to adopt the ideals of Free software, which are so symbiotic in the context of GNU/Linux and BSDs. Maybe one day the world will regain what it had decades ago, more so at the genesis of the Net. It would require a great deal of re-decentralisation. The Net, and especially the Web, has become way too flaky. █