Not terribly happy with my current VPS provider. Recommendations?
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Hello sir,
thx for mentioning us. Yes, we can make Gigi happy
I use vpsdime, cheaper and good customer support
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@npub1yequ2pswfmkgyzylmvkfawz8z3nqlh0hcgaqr4e3xy2grxplq96stt6anu is great, fully anonymous signup, lightning payment, onion service and good prices
Hah, totally read VPN instead of VPS. In that case clearly Hetzner.
Lnvps, nymbox, orangewebsites, namecheap as well, https://bitcoin-vps.com/
initech.global my go-to. Supports lightning and has good support.
Who’s your current and what don’t you like about them?
Proton...?
Y’all have to read better or learn the difference between VPS and VPN.
I use contabo, nothing special with them other than you get a lot of resources for the $
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With Hetzner you can rent a dedicated machine and encrypt the disk
We've yet to find a btc-accepting provider that enables this functionality
it's a bit tricky because you have to unlock it when it boots, so if it crashes it is DOWN. so really you have to then have two or three of them to ensure high availability. and actually you don't need to encrypt the whole disk, just the /var and /home which you can do using disk-files. i have no idea what options there are for making this work but a simple script with SSH so on your secure machines, accessible by the top level admins of your org, can just run the script and it does the dance for you.
so, it's not simple to set up, and you have to have round the clock admins to alert and have them unlock the thing if it ded
note that you could theoretically have that thing automatically unlock with a failover script that polls the server, but i wouldn't want to run a production site without two of these signer machines at two different locations and 3 failovers, with all of them maintaining sync with each other somehow.
so, for nostr that would also mean needing a relay sync spider on each that keeps up to date with other nodes, probably a push sync on the other direction, and then you also have to deal with the lightning node, which has all the same kinds of issues to manage. probably a pair of alby hubs with connections through the relays on all three server machines and an automated failover/unlock script on the two unlocker machines.
Yes, on hetzner there is a rescue server so on restart you ssh in (same ip) and enter the unlock password
yeah, i think you can work around this for other types of VPS services by using a disk volume file. most of them already come with a 2gb swap file so you can just make a secure data file and have the app than requires it monitored by some off-site SSH monitors and unlockkers.
We can help you if needed. We used to resell Hetzner.
Your site looks great, do you have a knowledge base article for setting up disk encryption?
For dedicated servers or VPS?
But to answer. Not yet. But I can help out here for questions which needed to answer for some understandings when it comes to disk encryption and VPS. Because it can be useless in some circumstances.
it's really easy when you remember that you can either partition the disk with the rescue tools or use files as the disk volume backing (most VPSs already have a swap set up this way). keeping the secret in separate, client only non-internet-reachable locations and writing simple SSH scripts that connect as root and run the volume mount is simple.
There is still a huge security issue. Any provider can dump the memory of the VPS node and extract the decryption key. But for that the VPS node must be online and the key must be in the memory.
To avoid this you should use VPS providers which use AMD EPYC because then it is possible. to encrypt the memory without any chance to extract data. Its called SME (Secure Memory Encryption). Not all providers have activated it. On our Netherlands location it is activated.
This sounds great. What is the best way to contact you?
We have Signal (mynymbox.10), SimpleX or sales@mynymbox.net
https://smp14.simplex.im/a#-hQO2deuaQsGEIQ3p2HF9SH_3Xn4Kck-S9Yh7lZIOe4
Whats important for you? I'm using netcup since forever.
Hetzner. The €25/month VPS has good specs and decent bandwidth.
Hetzners good. KYC though
Hi there,
we offer anonymous VPS Servers, Dedicated Servers & Domain Names and accept Bitcoin, Bitcoin Lightning etc, and we are a 100% crypto company, no fiat accounts.
Our locations are Germany, Finland and Netherlands. Netherlands is our semi autonomous region which means we own the network there.
We are flexible with VPS configs, if you need different specs, no problem.
You can reach us any time via Signal: mynymbox.10 or SimpleX (we send you details if needed)
I use proton, I use their email, comes with it. It works well enough.
Oops, read it as vpn! You can ignore 🤦♂️
MyNymBox is working nice so far
I am experimenting with lnvps.net. Happy so far with the CAN instances but too much latency with IRE.
bitcoinplett.cx runs on nostr:nprofile1qqszdzu53dd2kjatpe2rpmjfu08lz9mkeuvrm7fmxg2el9nsa42pf9gpz3mhxw309ucnydewxqhrqt338g6rsd3e9uq3vamnwvaz7tm9v3jkutnwdaehgu3wd3skuep0ughyt0. They take sats, and setup was super easy.
Oh, thats great. Welcome to Mynymbox ✌️