# Discourse hosting on Linode? **URL:** \ **Category:** Self-hosting\ **Tags:** hosting\ **Created:** [October 5, 2022, 7:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-hosting-on-linode/240977 "2022-10-05T07:00:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 32
**Author:** ![RGJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rgj/32/523185_2.png) [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2022, 9:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-hosting-on-linode/240977/32 "2022-10-08T09:49:49Z")
Communiteq co-founder here. You’re making some good and smart remarks here, so please allow me to chime in and try to explain some of the things you’re wondering about. I do want to ask if further questions can be directed to PM though since I don’t want to _completely_ hijack this topic 🕶 > [@khenmu](#): > > They also curiously claim to be based in the EU and yet omit VAT from their prices (is that legal?) We omit VAT from the _prices we advertise_ since at that point we don’t know if we’re dealing with a private person or a business, nor do we know where the client is located. Once you get to our checkout you will see the price including the VAT percentage that applies to who you are and where you are. AFAIK this i a pretty normal way of doing online business. We’re in the Netherlands. Our hosting is delivered in the US and the EU. Back when @jimrea became a client our only option was US hosting. Our knowledge base offers background information and solutions with respect to our hosting only. We do not aim to offer or be a knowledge base for Discourse as a whole. So I’d rather call it “lean and mean” than “anemic” 😉 We offer a service, we don’t offer hardware. We think advertising hardware specs is not fair if you’re on a shared or virtual platform. CDCK doesn’t advertise hardware specs? We think it’s easier and more fair to make sure every forum we host has a good performance. After all, the worst advertising we can get is if we don’t offer good performance - while bad service is only noticeable to the actual customer, bad performance is noticeable to everyone using their forum. > [@khenmu](#): > > Though I would love to know the story behind a based-in-Europe company charging nearly 50% more for customers choosing the EU data centre For business clients that is indeed correct. This is a GDPR (EU privacy law) thing - although all our plans are GDPR compliant, lots of businesses in the EU start with bringing us into contact with their privacy lawyers who then want to completely revise our data processing agreement to align with their own policies. That’s fine with us but it adds a lot of overhead with respect to our day-to-day processes in how the services for these clients should be handled with respect to privacy and security. > [@khenmu](#): > > I’d probably refer to theirs as ‘the perfect service’ if all of the plugins made by the Discourse team themselves were included in every plan. > > I would probably recommend Communiteq to them. That is much appreciated! 👍 And… we’re actively working on getting more plugins in the Basic plan, and deliverying more flexibility on the other plans. We hear you! --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-hosting-on-linode/240977)._