# Self-hosting Discourse for a Canadian community: keeping data and backups in Canada

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/self-hosting-discourse-for-a-canadian-community-keeping-data-and-backups-in-canada/417120>\
**Category:** Community Building\
**Tags:** privacy\
**Created:** [November 11, 2026, 7:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/self-hosting-discourse-for-a-canadian-community-keeping-data-and-backups-in-canada/417120 "2026-11-11T19:42:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jagster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jagster/32/192154_2.png) [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2026, 7:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/self-hosting-discourse-for-a-canadian-community-keeping-data-and-backups-in-canada/417120/2 "2026-11-11T19:54:20Z")

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Handling CDN globally such way that data never leaves EU or Canada breaks the idea of CDN aka. using geographically closest datacenter.

Staying inside Canada, or for me EU, is quite easy task when using enterprises that aren’t USA, China, Russia etc. connected. Meaning ie. I don’t trust Amazon/AWS at all.

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