Are there any good VPS providers you would recommend that don’t require to much data and where you can pay with privacy friendly payment methods like monero?
I found some on google but I never heard if them before and just because they offer crypto payments doesn’t mean they’re privacy friendly.
They are called bulletproof hosting and are illegal. They get shut down pretty quick for obvious reasons. You won’t find any reputable ones for a reason, because they don’t want to be hosting illegal content like CP. They also get their IPs blacklisted and automatically marked as spam/suspicious/phishing. It’s just a bad idea.
You can have private hosting and not anonymous hosting, they are not the same. Just try to go for one in the EU for the most privacy friendly laws.
How are they illegal? Under what law?
Because they host illegal content and don’t comply with laws. You can do a simple google search.
https://cloudzy.com/anonymous-vps/
This site for example advertises itself as privacy friendly. Is there any reason not to trust it?
And I am not talking about illegal stuff just want to make sure they dont snoop into what services I am selfhosting without reason
What are you wanting to host? There are some ways to limit what they have access to, or increase the amount of work to access it, but it’s pretty dependent on the actual services.
The main thing I would like to host is a VPN. I pay for mullvad but a lot of their ips are blacklisted. Which is why I’d like a cheap vps to selfhost openvpn to circumvent censorships on some free wifi networks that I use, while also keeping my data private.
In that case, you’d be connecting to the vps without a VPN. So the company would have your ip, and anonymous payment won’t do anything about that. It would help your blacklisting problem, and your WiFi censorship problem though. Just stick with a reputable company. I use hetzner and dedipath and i’m happy with both of them.
Any VPS provider can access your data via the hypervisor if they want, there’s just no way to prevent it. It has nothing to do with what payment methods are accepted.
If you want to be sure, you need your own hardware on your own premises.
Then you move your privacy concerns to your ISP.
Njalla accepts multiple forms of crypto and requires only an email or XMPP address to create an account.
You might also just want to read their user agreement. For example, at the time several years ago now, I chose Linode over some others because I liked their agreement better. Not saying what it is now, they have been bought out, just saying that is what I did. Also was not looking for anything specifically private, Was just a solid provider with a sane agreement and a good community.
