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[energ1a]

This is the hosting general

Spoiler: Bad OP

Say hypothetically 1776 hosting were to be shutdown tomorrow and as a result the farms along with it, and a new home for the farms is needed.
What would be an ideal country/jurisdiction to setup a new server hosting company who's internet privacy and lack of hate speech laws won't hinder user privacy, result in the website being shut down again or in general interfere with our fun?

 

[dreamworks face]

One idea would be Iceland. The country started something called the "Icelandic Modern Media Initiative" in 2010, which is aimed at "making a journalistic safe haven." While it hasn't completely passed yet, it does look promising.

 

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I believe there is a single company that operates web hosting and VPS services in Pyongyang. This would be an excellent choice, although pricey.

 

[Curious Addie]

What are the cool kids using these days? I used to use Godaddy but I'm sure that's wrong and dumb etc.

It's just for small business stuff, no crazy traffic or anything.

 

[Reverend]

Godaddy is by far the best/easiest to get up and going. Unless you need SSL certificates then they are expensive. All the hot shit folks are going to Amazon with their account and using AWS for all their services.

 

[soft kitty]

1776 hosting.

 

[cjöcker]

Unless you need SSL certificates then they are expensive.

Use let's encrypt. There's no reason not to.

 

[Give Her The D]

In any case, Dear Leader would probably just host servers in Russia, if it weren't for the strange political dealings Russia has involving the Internet.

Perhaps some eastern European country like Ukraine? I know they have some hosting companies.

 

[Reverend]

Use let's encrypt. There's no reason not to.

Those certs are good for 30 days, unless you are tech savvy rotating out certs is a pain in the dick.

 

[cjöcker]

Those certs are good for 30 days, unless you are tech savvy rotating out certs is a pain in the dick.

90 days, and just automate the renewals with certbot or acme.sh or literally anything it's not that hard.

 

[Reverend]

90 days, and just automate the renewals with certbot or acme.sh or literally anything it's not that hard.

oh nice! Glad they changed it to 90 days. Vast improvement from the early days.

 

[cjöcker]

oh nice! Glad they changed it to 90 days. Vast improvement from the early days.

The shorter a certificate is the better, if your shit gets fucked by some bad motherfucker and they have your cert and are gonna MITM your sick furry porn site or whatever they have less time to do so as it expires soon. Let's encrypt heavily emphasises automation, just automate it.

 

[Superior Colliculus]

Those certs are good for 30 days, unless you are tech savvy rotating out certs is a pain in the dick.

This is relatively easy to achieve in almost all automation software for this purpose. Certbot (Usually Linux, Python-based), and acme.sh (*nixes, flexible) provide this functionality with generally minimal fuckery. You need to ensure your reloading/restarts will successfully make the transition smoothly and specify what those exactly are. In a simple example you'd fulfill one of the acme-challenges, and specify what services you would restart, Mail, HTTPd.

Use LetsEncrypt for obvious reasons. Don't waste your money on certs!

For specifics, see your software's & OS' documentation, and there's a staging server for LetsEncrypt. See https://letsencrypt.org/docs/

Tools:

• https://certbot.eff.org/
• https://github.com/acmesh-official/acme.sh