I ran a server at my apartment in the beginning. Until my provider was sold and the performance collapsed. In the meantime, my Internet crashes three times a day.
The current nodes are at Hetzner. One of them is only a few kilometers away from me and I know when I have to call them if something is wrong. Hetzner is located here in Nuremberg and several fellow students from my studies work there today.
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