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.
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I am planning on getting an older PC and turning it into a server, but for now I can't afford it, so I need something temporary
You could get a kimsufi or similar cheap dedicated server and again, encrypt a disk partition.
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
Recently started using Contabo
Hosted in EU, and the default storage is way better than most others.
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.
A 500GB storage volume on Digitalocean is $50/mo
I actually haven't used their storage volumes, my bad for not actually looking at that pricing.
All good
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.
But their support is horrible
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.
I've used ramnode before and their quality of service wasn't exactly what I would call amazing.
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
Maybe
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
and the catch is?
That looks like a web hosting provider, not a VPS.
makes sense lol
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.
I can't understand why KYC is needed.
I'm guessing they want to cover their butt in case their server is used for something illicit. But even in searching for something as locked down as, say, a Minecraft server, I ran into the same issue.
It's strange, because generally you can use a fake identity and a masked card to purchase.. just about anything, really.
I know that DO does require KYC, not sure about Vultr.
Namecheap does not. I have a VPS with them, paid via crypto, and they don't have any real details about me.
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
- 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.
- What illegal thing are you doing you criminal
nothing illegal, come on, this is a privacy community, you should know better than "you have nothing to hide"
Yah hence why I gave advice on how to do it if the person just wants fairly-good privacy.
Some other gave input as to where might be hosting that is fully private / illegal stuff friendly if they want that, also. But, if they're doing genuinely illegal stuff, a Tor .onion site might be better. If they just want hosting with some level of privacy for their stuff, then probably Digitalocean+encrypted file store will serve.