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I have a few places, but they are exceedingly expensive and meant for enterprise clients. There's one I have: https://www.hetzner.com/, but I don't know if it's trustworthy or not.

I have a few places, but they are exceedingly expensive and meant for enterprise clients. There's one I have: https://www.hetzner.com/, but I don't know if it's trustworthy or not.
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Check out our host, they propose dedicated servers, vps and vpn services.

https://poal.co/s/Privacy/726144

They are pro-free speech.

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I came here to post this. I have a VPS there. Seems to work well and has good uptime.

Also, if you live in a large enough city you can always call around to local DataCenters and ask if they do colo services. You would probably have to buy/maintenance your own hardware but that is another possible solution.

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"For almost two years now, we've been working on a production-ready WireGuard-based VPN service. The idea was simple: to provide a secure and straightforward VPN product that also blocks ads, trackers, and other "BS" at the DNS level, protecting your privacy and making web surfing less annoying. We wanted a barebones service that also had advanced features that privacy enthusiasts and homelab hobbyists would want, like internal private networking and port forwarding. After months of iterations and testing, we’re proud to say: it’s ready. It’s here"

Holy fuck. That is literally what I'm trying to solo build with my setup right now. All of it's easy but for the best safety net I'm trying to host at home and use my VPS to router from whichever device to my home but do it in a way that hides my home IP so people only see my domain or my VPS IP.

Amazing how this lined up so neatly.

"MyPrivateInbox is a project we’re very excited about. After an initially successful proof of concept setup, we are now working on making a production-quality service. MyPrivateInbox uses your domain name to provide you with private, secure, and reliable email. Some of the features include access over anonymity networks like Tor or I2P, at-rest encryption for emails, built-in PGP encryption tools, email scheduling, and the expected SMTP, IMAP, and POP support. Read more here ."

Love it, I was scared of the time when I was due to set up my own email. I've done email MANY years ago and it's not as simple as it sounds.

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Please remove the two domains in your quotes.

I made the linked post NSFW for the reason mentioned on top of that linked post.

Thanks.

[–] • 1 pt

Sure no prob. Think I got them both, they were the quoted bits.

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I stumbled across this service a while ago and was wondering if they were available for personal home use; looks like they are. I wonder if they block or obfuscate things such as x-forward headers etc., that can literally expose your machine IP whether you're on a vpn or not.

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I think that has to be set on your nginx/apache instance inside your dedicated server or VPS.

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I avoid that whole problem by hosting my own servers. I just went through building my own custom Nginx server that serves http1, http2, http3, gzip, brotli and zstd. Configure it for reverse proxy mode and setup as many servers as you want. It's not so straightforward, but it's yours.

You can also colocate.

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Sure, if you have experience that makes sense. This is all new to me. I've never self-hosted, or owned a domain or anything like that. This are things I may look into, but definitely not right now.`

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Ok, if you decide to do it, you can use inexpensive single board computers, a standard build of nginx or Apache. Then it's not too difficult. Or rent a whole server. But renting a whole server is expensive. Learn to do it yourself. It's worth it.

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That's kind of what I'm doing right now. Though not something like a pi, but kind of... I got a miniPC and am using that ISH. That got me interested in making my own little cloud. So my network is dumb and overly complicated. But I kind of wanted to so there would be virtually no possible way (sans state actors) that my tailnet would point to my home IP. The thing is, though, my miniPC at home is the headscale server. But I use my VPS +nginx to route traffic and conceal my homeIP.

I am REALLY REALLY REALLY out of my depth, though. The logic is easy, that's my thing. But networking fundamentals (nginx, iptables etc.) aren't my thing.