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submitted 2 months ago by Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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.

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[-] gregor@gregtech.eu 13 points 2 months ago

I would recommend Hetzner. Their prices are pretty good, VPSs are under GDPR and they have servers in Germany, Finland, Singapore and the USA.

[-] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 2 points 2 months ago

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!!

[-] vardogor@mander.xyz 7 points 2 months ago

Frantech BuyVM won't bug you about DMCA notices for their Luxembourg servers if you're a pirate

[-] gregor@gregtech.eu 2 points 2 months ago

Their prices suck tho, compared to hetzner

[-] ramenu@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago
[-] qaz@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Allows Loli

That's quite a strange category to judge a VPS provider on. That picture is also contains a few red flags (literally)

[-] ramenu@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

The article's title is putting "free speech VPS providers to the test", not ranking based off of uptime, support, performance, or price.

[-] Deckweiss@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

[-] Catsrules@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

There are no privacy-focused VPS 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.

[-] loganb@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I've been using Linode (now owned by Akamai) for a couple years now and have enjoyed their pricing / service.

[-] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago

It beats AWS and maybe ever Azure. Definitely way better than Google cloud platform.

[-] ramenu@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

Linode is not for privacy at all.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago

Neither is any "cloud" really

[-] ramenu@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

Not true. There are providers that aren't KYC and allow you to pay in crypto.

[-] ironsoap@lemmy.one 1 points 2 months ago

What's the privacy criteria you are thinking about?

[-] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago

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.

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