Yes, sometimes it might help to have multiple providers on different backbones if you run into availability issues.
There are currently no legal cases in Germany against Usenet like with copyrighted material and torrenting, that's mostly because you don't distribute with Usenet.
scenenzbs is great, also has many files with English+German audio, marked as DL or dual language.
Depending on power prices in your country I would take that into strong consideration, while some server or desktop grade hardware might be technically very good, they often have high idle power consumption without offering greater functionality.
Take a look at this German Forum Post: https://www.hardwareluxx.de/community/threads/die-sparsamsten-systeme-30w-idle.1007101
They also have this google sheet: https://goo.gl/z8nt3A
Yeah I didn't mean gps as in navigation, Inreach is a dedicated satellite communicator. I meant I wouldn't trust an iPhone for emergency communication if I plan to go somewhere extremely remote
Or you know, just get a dedicated gps device like Inreach for a a few hundred $ one time + gps plan as you need. I wouldn't rely on my iPhone for truly expedition like situations you actually plan for.
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For the Microsoft SaaS, PaaS and Is as services you don't have to worry about regular updates at all, it's for the most part completely invisible to the customer unless someone screws up.
There are some instances of planned maintenance where the customer can take action to assure smooth operations. In azure you can check/configure notifications under the "service health" menu. Upcoming planned maintenance or unplanned issues would show up here with instructions on what to do. Sometimes, but very rarely, there are maintenance tasks where your services might require a restart, you can then plan that restart yourself or get a rug pull on the deadline, usually 1-2 months after the notification.
Yes, so it would if it gets posted to any community you follow yourself. This is an absolute cluster fuck and not worth it if you are not prepared to deal with moderating illegal stuff even on your one user instance. Some people are just way too naive and ignorant of the laws around stuff like this. In Europe your are way more at risk as a platform/website provider/hoster than you are in the US and this can bite you in the ass really hard if you are unlucky.