I can recommend buyvm. 500gb storage from them (hdd) is $2.5/m I think. You can mount it encrypted. Small hosts like that usually have enough trouble keeping up with the day's tickets that they can't spend time messing with your files unless there is a definite issue. Note that if you are serving semi public content (seedbox?) then by definition it's not very private. And no vps can be as private as using your own hardware.

I use 1984.hosting, they are an independent VPS provider that runs on 100% green energy. Already customer with them for 2 years. Last year I moved my email hosting to them (unlimited domain names and storage).

No KYC They accept bitcoin and monero

As mozz said, DigitalOcean is a good company, but looking for that much storage you would be spending upwards of $100/mo.

And if you are running anything illegal, you will likely have your instance investigated and have your ssh keys and password overwritten by whoever is hosting it.

If you are looking for something that is as private as possible, you would be looking for a bulletproof host, which will cost significantly more.

Assuming you aren't looking to run anything illegal, I also provide hosting, and you can reach out to me if interested.

Recently started using Contabo

https://contabo.com/en/vps/

Hosted in EU, and the default storage is way better than most others.

Hetzner may have the thing for you. IIRC their VPS options don't have that much storage, but their storage plans are super cheap and easily connect to the VPS.

I use Linode but I'm sure there are better options. Be mindful of smaller companies and keep in mind data stored in the cloud or transfered though the cloud is not private.

oracle or free trials at the big faang type companies

For low-cost I have been using RamNode. They are a pretty established company and provide HDD options which are great if you want lots of storage at a reasonable price:

https://ramnode.com/products/vps-hosting/#massive-kvm

They also have relatively good priced SSD, but it is obviously much more than HDD.

For those posting suggestions, do the providers also require KYC at some point?

I know for a fact that Vultr, Digitalocean, and Namecheap (and a few others people have mentioned to me before) will need your identity at time of purchase.

I can understand why verifying a customer's identity is important to these providers, but at the same time, I'm mostly worried that they will be the victims of some data breach in the future.

Maybe

https://www.infinityfree.com

Premium version $6.90 per month

• Unlimited Disk Space
• Unlimited Bandwidth
• Unlimited Hosted Domains
• Unlimited E-mail Accounts
• Unlimited FTP Accounts
• Most Server Power
• Unlimited Daily Hits

Might wanna take a look into strato.de, although I don't know whether it would be available for you.

E: don't even know if there's an English variant of the website

looking for a VPS with good specs for it's price

DigitalOcean is wonderful in my experience

I don't want whoever's running it to have access to my files

1. Run an encrypted file store of some sort, keep the keys only in the memory of the process that serves the files, type it in to start the process, keep it completely off the server. That's not bulletproof (there's nothing you can do to completely prevent the server operator from having access to what's going on on the server) but in practice it'll probably be good enough.
2. What illegal thing are you doing you criminal