don't you think it's highly unlikely that someone will stumble over the power cable in a hosted datacenter like hetzner?
and even if, you could just run a provisioned secondary server that jumps in if the first becomes unavailable and still be much cheaper.
yea right.
Privacy is a fundamental right in the EU (GDPR, Charter of Fundamental Rights), while the U.S. legal system offers almost no general privacy protection. On top of that, the NSA has a long history of warrantless surveillance and backdoors (Snowden, PRISM), with very limited oversight. In practice, it’s far costlier to push mass privacy infringements in Europe than in the U.S.
esp. for image data libraries, why not provide the images as a dump instead? No need to crawl 3mil images if the download button is right there. Now put the file on a cdn or Google and you're golden
we use it and are fairly happy. but provider latency is insanely high (500ms+) for embedding models. best to host on-cluster.
hybrid quality is good but modification options are extremely limited and the score very obscure for anything but ranking within the set.