The New vStoike

bersy

@vStoike Hi, the first welcome aboard! The second, any tasty LET offers, something like your former delegate @jamaica used to do before ?

Veesp

Nyr said: It's interesting because not all the censorship is applied, but some drug-related content is partially blocked at the network level. For example, I can connect on port 80 to a censored site with HSTS but no way I can negotiate TLS over 443.

There is no law obliging data centers to block or restrict access to certain websites in Russia and we definitely don't do that. If you experience any problems with access to some content on the web - just open a ticket and we will find out what the problem is.

@info_hash said:
BTC support?

No, unfortunately we do not support BTC.

@bersy said:
@vStoike Hi, welcome aboard! The second, any tasty LET offers, something like your former delegate @jamaica used to do before

Hi! We are glad to be here! We have already posted one interesting offer to LEB, just wait a little bit for it to be published

Nyr

vStoike said:

There is no law obliging data centers to block or restrict access to certain websites in Russia and we definitely don't do that. If you experience any problems with access to some content on the web - just open a ticket and we will find out what the problem is.

If you don't block, looks like some of your upstreams do, because I have experienced the censorship immediately after sites entered the blocklist. An example of a website blocked recently which was previously accesible is erowid.org. See for yourself:

# curl -I http://www.erowid.org/
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 11:40:38 GMT
Server: Apache
Location: https://www.erowid.org/
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

# curl -I https://www.erowid.org/
curl: (35) Unknown SSL protocol error in connection to www.erowid.org:443

I have experienced this with other sites but mention this one in particular because the owners have confirmed that there aren't restrictions on their end.

info_hash

vStoike said: No, unfortunately we do not support BTC.

Thanks. Plan for support in the future, be it using a third party service for that?

Veesp

var Gravatar={my_hash:'',profile_cb:function(){},init: function(){}}Nyr said: If you don't block, looks like some of your upstreams do, because I have experienced the censorship immediately after sites entered the blocklist. An example of a website blocked recently which was previously accesible is erowid.org. See for yourself:

Thank you for the information. We have already contacted our uplinks and will investigate on this. We will keep you updated on this issue.

var Gravatar={my_hash:'',profile_cb:function(){},init: function(){}}info_hash said: Plan for support in the future, be it using a third party service for that?

Today BTC doesn't have clear legal status in Russia, maybe we will support it in the future, but it depends on Russian law.

Veesp

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praveen

I like that one.. cool design! congrats @vStoike

fitvpn

vStoike said: Just wanna tell you that we started a sale of dedicated servers.

Advertising of dedi must not exceeded $49, isn't?

Veesp

var Gravatar={my_hash:'',profile_cb:function(){},init: function(){}}fitvpn said: Advertising of dedi must not exceeded $49, isn't?

Well, yes, you are right, sorry for that, forgot community rules, just wanted to share good news. Wont happen again.

Veesp

@praveen said:
I like that one.. cool design! congrats @vStoike

Thank you!

Veesp

Nyr said: If you don't block, looks like some of your upstreams do, because I have experienced the censorship immediately after sites entered the blocklist. An example of a website blocked recently which was previously accesible is erowid.org. See for yourself:

Hello!
We have solved this issue. One of our uplinks was really filtering our traffic against the law. We have resolved this problem and now everything should work fine.
Thank you again for pointing out this issue!

Veesp

Nyr said: If you don't block, looks like some of your upstreams do, because I have experienced the censorship immediately after sites entered the blocklist. An example of a website blocked recently which was previously accesible is erowid.org. See for yourself:

Hello!
We have solved this issue. One of our uplinks was really filtering our traffic against the law. We have resolved this problem and now everything should work fine.
Thank you again for pointing out this issue!

natalya

@vStoike said: One of our uplinks was really filtering our traffic against the law.

So you are saying you do not obey Роскомнадзор? Business customers need to follow, if I am not wrong. TTK and RT enforce Roskomnadzor.

Nyr

vStoike said: Hello! We have solved this issue. One of our uplinks was really filtering our traffic against the law. We have resolved this problem and now everything should work fine. Thank you again for pointing out this issue!

I'm happy to confirm that this issue has indeed been resolved.

kingpin

@Nyr There are a few databases maintaining the lists of the sites know to be blocked.

1. http://eais.rkn.gov.ru/en/
2. https://antizapret.info/
3. http://reestr.rublacklist.net/

The first one is a Roskomnadzor's registry. The two other are not affiliated with the state or any govt organizations and are run by individuals.

You can query any site name which seem to you to be blocked and learn if there was an order from some state department to restrict it (which all ISPs should obey) or if the restriction have already been cancelled.

Nyr

@kingpin Yeah, I'm well aware of them, that's how I checked in the first place

Veesp

@natalya said:

@vStoike said: One of our uplinks was really filtering our traffic against the law.

So you are saying you do not obey Роскомнадзор? Business customers need to follow, if I am not wrong. TTK and RT enforce Roskomnadzor.

We do obey local law of course. I dont know what you mean by "business customer" here but relationship between telecom operators are strict - Uplink cant filter downlink if downlink didnt asked(in agreement) for it. Plus we, as an ISP, dont obliged to filter datacenters and datacenters dont obliged to filter Hosting clients. Hostings/small data-centers dont even have telecom license so they are not considered as "telecom operator" (Оператор связи)

Veesp

Hi everyone,

Just wanna share some good news for the community - we have lauched an affiliate program! Now you can make up to 10% per sale with us! Hope it will be interesting for our old customers and anyone who wants to make some money)

You can join right now: https://secure.vstoike.ru/affiliates/

bersy

@vStoike and how about that? https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/95711/vstoike-blackholing-all-traffic-of-ips-listed-in-blocklist-de

Veesp

@bersy said:
@vStoike and how about that? https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/95711/vstoike-blackholing-all-traffic-of-ips-listed-in-blocklist-de

Thanks for the link! We have just answered in that topic, hope it will clarify our position about that.

lion

@vStoike said:
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I thought just russians in video games do this.

Zeast

@lion said:

@vStoike said:
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I thought just russians in video games do this.

lmaoooooooo