New checking location: Helsinki

Checks from Northern Europe now run via Helsinki. The location sits on its own network (AS202053), so it counts as a full independent vote when several locations decide whether a service is really down. Like every location it is optional: you decide in your settings whether Helsinki should check your services — until then it receives no checks from you.

UpCloud Oy (Helsinki, Finland) runs the new checking location and is now listed in our public provider list and in Annex 2 of the data processing agreement. The location is inside the EU, so no standard contractual clauses are needed. We clarified two things in the DPA: checking locations only receive your data once you select them — and we described what the checking servers actually do: results are sent to us encrypted straight away, and if that fails for a moment they sit locally on the server until the transfer goes through.