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Nine
Company blog · nine.ch/en/blog · on HN as nine_chsystemssecurity
Nine is the company blog at nine.ch, writing about systems and security. Since 2013, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Nine is a Swiss web hosting provider. HN commenters suggest it for hosting outside the US, pointing to Switzerland's jurisdiction. The comments concern the hosting service rather than any writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Swiss cloud infrastructure and managed services for businesses that value reliability, security, and local support.
What Hacker News says?
For Switzerland hosted V or dedicated server: http://nine.ch/
Comment linking /
on “Sovereign – Ansible playbooks to build and maintain your own personal cloud”Submitted Three Days in August: What a DDoS Attack Exposed in Our Network as a story · 19 points
HN discussionTake a look at this one: http://www.nine.ch/ . It might be worth looking first at countries that don't honor U.S. extradition, which Switzerland up until a few years ago was strongly in that corner but lately they have been giving finance info etc to the U.S. Some other sites have already done the work so look for sites that you are sure would not be hosted in the U.S. and then try this: http://whatmyip.co
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on “Ask HN: Who is the best web host outside the US?”Submitted Nine.ch hiring experienced Ruby engineer as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted When the Red Light Goes On: How We Responded to the Linux Kernel 0-Day as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nine handling a major incident in times of the coronavirus as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Same Ingress, Different Defaults: What Changed When We Moved to HAProxy as a story · 1 points
HN discussion