Notes from
the rack.

Managed means someone else has root. Unmanaged means you do. That single fact decides the price, the privacy, and whethe...

Fifteen VPS providers that accept cryptocurrency, ranked by what the crypto actually buys you: whether payments are proc...

Ten minutes from a fresh Ubuntu server to a WireGuard VPN you control: keys, config, forwarding, firewall, a phone clien...

Ten VPS providers that take Monero, ranked by how they handle it: own node or third-party gateway, what signup still ask...

Some hosts accept banknotes in an envelope. It works, it is slow, and it leaves a different kind of trail than people ex...

Seven ways to rent a virtual machine whose memory the operator cannot read, from a no-KYC host with reproducible measure...

Eleven VPS providers that will rent you a server without a passport, a selfie or a phone number, ranked by what they sti...

We built a VPS where the host cannot read your RAM or your disk, cannot log into your machine, and does not know who you...

What a warrant canary is, where the practice came from, how to read one, and what it means when a hosting provider's can...