I'm stuck in a bit of a tough situation.

The cloud hosting provider I use, Vultr, has made a change to their terms of service stating that:

You hereby grant to Vultr a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, fully paid-up, worldwide license (including the right to sublicense through multiple tiers) to use, reproduce, process, adapt, publicly perform, publicly display, modify, prepare derivative works, publish, transmit and distribute each of your User Content

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I find this particularly frightening judging by the fact that I'll soon be releasing SparkShell sometime this year. I don't want Vultr to hold rights to your content, so I don't know if I want to continue using them.

I personally cannot see this going down well in court so I'm going to cross my fingers that this is reverted, but I'm looking for your opinion - would you have any problem with this or should I look into moving away from Vultr?

Mar 27, 2024, 4:06 PM
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There’s plenty of good cloud infrastructure services, if you don’t feel comfortable with Vultr, you should just move. One I’d recommend is Hetzner, they have pretty competitive pricing - for example, 1 shared vCPU (Intel), 2GB of RAM, 20GB of storage, and 20TB of traffic per month is just over $4 USD (less if you only have IPv6).

If their new terms are referring to user content on your service that’s hosted on Vultr, that’s pretty egregious.

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