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Email or token-only hosting providers (no name, phone number, address, etc)?
ServerBachelor
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Can anyone recommend hosting providers that only ask for an email (or token) when registering for an account? As opposed to name, phone number, address, etc.
Off the top of my head, a few providers like that are on LET already.
Are there any others I should be aware of? (They don't have to be on LET).
I am not counting providers that only exempt crypto users from providing personally identifying information ( e.g. @alexhost, @Francisco ). My purpose with this thread isn't to prevent the host from knowing who I am, per se, since I already use paypal and credit card. Instead, it's to minimize the amount of information that could show up in a data leak.
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@crunchbits most data is optional but they still require full name, email and country.
Kyun.host sell calin box and chicken crunchbits without PII @naphtha
Acceptable middle ground tbh, though not ideal
@Calin is his upstream??
For Bucharest yeah, @crunchbits is for Spokane
Typically providers don’t validate this stuff so you can actually just put in whatever you want, this may be problematic if they want to KYC you in the future though.
Just ask a homeless guy and give him a meal or some cash if you dont want to use your real data.
https://sporestack.com is solid
No credit card or PayPal.
at least in EU, all providers need to collect at least full name, e-mail, address and phone nr. without this info, it is considered as "anonymous" web hosting service aka grey area stuff and thus not allowed and sooner or later company offering such anonymous services, will get itself into legal battle.
EU providers are a different case for me. EU countries tend to take data protection more seriously. But I still think it’s unfortunate that such regulations exist.
EU again!
Hi,
We Alexhost, we don't verify if the customer data is correct or not when you register with us, if your information is not real, it can trigger Anti-Fraud databases.
But we don't require the name or email address, we just need your email, the rest we don't know if is true or not.
If you pay with Crypto we don't ask for KYC, but if you pay with credit card or paypal it may trigger their Anti-Fraud. That's the main issue.
We don't ask for KYC
4vps.su only require email
We don't do any KYC.
The order-form requires a name, but you are free to choose what ever you like.
It's mostly so we can address you in emails and tickets. (and maybe because we are to lazy to mod WHMCS to make that field optional too)
We accept PayPal, Creditcards (stripe) and Crypo (CoinGate).
1984.hosting, 1984.is
Typically accepting payment via credit card will require at the very minimum a name + address, in order to pass billing address checks for the cards. We require no PII from users paying with crypto, but do require a name and address for anyone paying with a credit card.
i know noez.de lets you order with email only.
We don't require KYC — you can enter anything for your name and other details. The only requirement is a working email address so you can receive your server login details once setup is complete.
@CharityHost_org
too soon?
I’m not looking for Russian providers, but thanks for the suggestion.
I was their customer. I can verify this isn’t the case.
Your registration page requests name, number, address?
For https://www.ptrdns.net I ask for an email address, to which AWS SES sends a validation email, then a first and last name (which I'm not going to pretend to validate, see falsehoods programmers believe about names).
Once registered, the browser loads a page from Chargebee, the subscription provider I use, which in turn asks for first and last name, physical address and payment details. Chargebee performs some anti-fraud checks, the details of which I'm not privy to, and then stores this data for billing, invoicing and tax reporting.
I'm not sure to what extent any of this amounts to KYC, but it's the smallest amount of data I could settle with in order to respect the legal and tax obligations I have as a service provider. I certainly don't want to ask my customers for proof of address or copies of national IDs, that's way too invasive, and too dangerous should this data leak somewhere.
Pretty cool. As for your question, I’m fine giving info to the payment gateway, since they have my credit card anyhow. It’s more about giving info to the actual service provider that I find unnecessary.
I also like the naming scheme of ptrDNS. Definitely fits the theme of your username
Stable? They have some pretty good locations that I'm interested in..
Depends on the locations, some are better than others.
I used them a few times, it was pretty stable for me. However, I would not do any production using them.