Privacy
A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
Some Rules
- Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
- Don't promote proprietary software
- Try to keep things on topic
- If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
- Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
- Be nice :)
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Given how running a Matrix server uses an insane amount of storage space, most VPS with SSD storage will probably be insufficient. I would recommend hosting a snikket.org xmpp server instead. Much lower RAM use too.
I've gotten away just fine with 30GB of storage for matrix (only about 30% util). I'm hosting a xmpp server regardless.
https://buyvm.net/ is pretty good and super cheap. Only issue is that it's in five eyes (Only non-US servers are in Luxembourg).
You can get a storage slab from them for $5/TB/month too.
While they are definitely cheap, I don't see any indication of superior privacy.
They allow for payment in monero and allow running tor exit nodes. They're pretty much as privacy-positive you can get while still in the EU. You could pretty easily sign up with fake info and pay in Monero and remain totally anonymous.
VPS provider that is more privacy-respecting
Please define what you mean by that exactly – more than what? Privacy in what way?
More private than AlphaVPS. Privacy in the sense of less likely to monitor or monetize my data and vps behavior. You can think of it in the reason why someone would prefer Mullvad VPN over Opera VPN. Although you have no guarantees, one option might seem preferable in terms of privacy.