• tabularasa@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Explain more, please. Isn’t your name still attached to the VPS 's IP address because of the account you have to open?

      • MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Ah, you want to anonymise your traffic using a VPN?

        You should be looking at Mullvad - they accept payments over Monero.

        I’m just trying to keep the likes of Google, Microsoft and Facebook from knowing my real IP. If I had something that required absolute confidentiality, I’d be using TOR over bridges.

        This is an excellent chain of posts from absolute gods in the digital privacy game: The paranoid schizophrenic’s guide to opsec - an extremely entertaining read if you have the patience to follow their techniques.

        Cheers

        • Kit
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          1 year ago

          What provider do you recommend? I’ve been looking for a VPS for playing around with some stuff that I can’t run on my OSX server.

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            1 year ago

            Somebody mentioned Vultr. I’ll add Linode, Digital Ocean as the bigger players. Obviously, there’s the Cloud providers like AWS, Azure and GCP.

            If you’re on a budget/looking for the best value, look at Contabo, Hetzner (bit of a pain now, their processes and uptime) and Racknerd special deals on Lowendbox (can’t beat this, but remember that you get what you pay for).