Does anyone have experience with a good privacy-focussed VPS provider? What do you recommend?
I’ve been using 1984 for quite a while and they have been solid but they have just put their prices up. It’s still affordable but I thought it would be a good time to have another look at what else is out there.
Frantech BuyVM won’t bug you about DMCA notices for their Luxembourg servers if you’re a pirate
Their prices suck tho, compared to hetzner
netcup and contabo each have the cheapest VPS option in certain specc constelations.
Even more so if you can wait until black friday or christmas, since they both regularely offer huge VPS deals.
I would recommend Hetzner. Their prices are pretty good, VPSs are under GDPR and they have servers in Germany, Finland, Singapore and the USA.
The big ones are out of the question for me because they usually don’t accept crypto that freely (plus KYC). Like, one of them, don’t remember which, accepted Bitcoin (which is bad on its own, BTC’s fees are bad for small transactions) - but only if you have a working card first! And I use crypto BECAUSE my card is not functional there!!
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That’s quite a strange category to judge a VPS provider on
The article’s title is putting “free speech VPS providers to the test”, not ranking based off of uptime, support, performance, or price.
Genuine question for everyone. Are their any VPS providers that are not privately focused?
I was under the impression data privacy is very important in the data center world. VPS would be included in that.
However as far as i understand for all of them it is just a policy to not snoop. They could break in and snoop on your data if they really wanted to or were legally forced to do so. You can get around this by encrypting your data on the VPS.
I’ve been using Linode (now owned by Akamai) for a couple years now and have enjoyed their pricing / service.
I’ve been using Linode for a handful of years and Digital Ocean for about 10 years.
Linode has a muuuuch better interface with way more access, control, and vision over your VPSs.
It beats AWS and maybe ever Azure. Definitely way better than Google cloud platform.
Linode is not for privacy at all.
Neither is any “cloud” really
There are no privacy-focused VOS providers that I’m aware of. You need accounts to operate any based in the US , and the provider is required to provide data stored by customers on request as a matter of law. I’ve not heard of any global providers who do not do the same either though.
What’s the privacy criteria you are thinking about?
The usual stuff I guess; keeping minimal or no customer data, located in a country which isn’t participating in international surveillance agreements (Five Eyes et al), no wishywashy privacy policies etc.
