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If the appropriate steps are not taken, yes. You can ask someone who works in financial IT if you don't believe me.
You're not kidding, I've seen the stuff that goes on for banks who have servers external to their own DC's. Serious stuff.
@rm_ @Microlinux
To be honest, anything that's connected to the Internet has no privacy anymore. If anything has access to a public domain (Internet) then it means that someone can and will eventually gain access to it, whether it be a visitor, ISP, or the NSA.
With any rented server it'd probably be easier -and sneakier - to sniff traffic, though. It's not like it's easy to get data on a rented server without using the internet with most providers.
Edit: assuming you're a 3 letter agency who could crack either disk or network encryption.
Pretty much. There's real danger in mis-interpreting the concept of privacy. People hate to hear they don't have privacy.
It really is 2014.
Native IPv6 with whole subnets! rDNS with it, or just TUN/TAP and i'll be good with that.
Some interesting feedback here, thanks.
If demand were ever high enough, we'd do it. KVM seems to be fine for those who don't want OpenVZ, though.
The thing i want from lowend providers is:
Awesome as RamNode! @Nick_A
Reliability is the most important thing to me, I prefer it being offered through KVM, XEN, VMWare Virtualization.
Nice to have, not required:
Other characteristics I usually look for:
Relatively stable network. I could settle for a service that runs as advertised with slower support response time if I don't have to trouble support at all. A network status feed in case there are problems. Some providers probably don't like to use one because a history of outages might reflect poorly on the company, but they would save the customers time ticketing support. As a potential customer checking the sales portal I see it as a reassuring sign that the provider is active.
Friendly TOS. I tend to avoid providers that include "we reserve the right to inspect your vps" clauses, or terminate accounts without giving the customer a chance to work with the provider should there be an issue. Conveniently, AUP written in a specific manner (e.g. "max load not exceeding x/hour" compared to "high load") to set clear expectations.
Hope that's not too much to ask of a LEB.
Uptime and stability
Low prices
Fair connectivity to EU and US
Decent support (and quick support in issues like server is down)
Friendly approach to the client
Network & Node Uptime
Lower price
High Bandwidth
More RAM and CPU Core
Singapore location or other location with latency no more than 100 ms to my country.
Any type of virtualization (kvm, xen, or openvz) is accepted
SSD and large storage capacity is optional
Stable performance (i.e. VMs limited to 100Mb/s with node connected at 1Gb/s)
Responsive support
UK Locations
Open and honest staff
Good history
Thanks for all the feedback everyone!