Hosting Laravel in the EU: GDPR Compliance with Hetzner and Deploynix

If you serve European customers, GDPR is not optional. It is not a suggestion, a best practice, or something you can worry about later. Since May 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation has been the law across the European Economic Area, and the fines for non-compliance are not theoretical. Companies of every size have been penalized, and regulators are getting more aggressive, not less. For Laravel developers, GDPR compliance starts with a fundamental question: where does your data physica