I use 1984.hosting for myself.
They even have a page dedicated to litigation.
~$10.00/month.
I built a custom firewall - on gitlab if ya want - it enhances the privacy and anti-tracking I want for myself without locking myself out of everything.
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Perhaps you'd like DeluxHost.
You can pay with crypto (I never tried it).
And they use to offer but only through this website.
- 2 cores
- 8 GB Ram
- 80 GB disk
- 10 gbps network (symmetrical)
- "fair-use" bandwidth (15 TB/month)
- a static IPv4 address
- a /64 static IPv6 block
- located in Europe
For 18 Euros per year.
Now, to set some expectations. For 18 EUR per YEAR:
- You're NOT getting 99.999% uptime
- That said, they are pretty reliable (especially as a hobbist platform)
- For this price point, you're not getting blazing fast hardware.
- The reliability does depend a lot on your neighbors
- The biggest problem I've had is with IO (and high/unusable IO-waits). I've had IO operations blocked for 5 minutes.
- However, their Support is really helpful, if you're not a jerk nor expecting 99.999% uptime with SLA's. And you can provide timestamps when issues occur, they will go out of their way to try to improve the situation.
- I did have issues with their network 6 months ago, but they did some migrations and I haven't noticed any issues.
- You will want to look at their Fair-use document, to see what you're allowed and not allowed to do with your bandwidth.
That said, I'm very satisfied with them... but, at this price point, I won't be surprised if they "disappear in a year".
When I look at what other VPS companies are offering for 18 Eur: I feel I'm getting a much better value from DeluxHost.
edit: formatting and words
It’s a weird pick, but I recommend https://bloom.host/.
They’re gaming-focused, but their Ryzen vps boxes are really performant. Very helpful and competent support, great uptime and comms, solid tooling and monitoring.
You can pay with a virtual card no problem. Never had issues getting blocked when behind VPN either.
Hetzner has some really cheap servers in Germany
Hetzner is quite infamous for suddenly terminating people’s service and forcing customers to provide copies of their ID to get running again. They’re a great provider for many things but fall flat when it comes to privacy.
True, I almost forgot that I had to give them my ID. That's pretty bad for your own privacy, but other than that Germany has better privacy laws than most other countries
So does IONOS but I don't know how good they are.
Bad, when it comes to privacy. They have a pretty heavy internal advertisenent campaign, trying to sell you stuff you don’t need and offers based on your usage, it’s a bit disgusting, really.
Love the phrasing of this question. Not much to add, but interested in the discussion