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For the last few years, I have personally stopped buying servers from Indian companies or working with Indian people in this field. If I find out later that a provider is based in India, I usually leave and move on.
In my experience over the past 16 years, the problems were not just about losing money. I have dealt with much more serious issues—project data leaks, backup leaks, and even KYC documents being exposed. These are the kind of things that create long-term risk and cannot be taken lightly.
Whenever I faced major trouble—whether it was financial loss, compromised data, leaked backups, or mishandled KYC—the provider involved was Indian. In most cases, there was no proper resolution. Support went in circles, responsibility was denied, and there was no realistic way to enforce accountability.
I am not saying every Indian company or every Indian person is dishonest. That would be unfair. But based on repeated personal experience, I have learned to be extremely cautious. Because of this, I now avoid Indian providers entirely when a service involves servers, infrastructure, or sensitive data.
This is not an emotional decision. It is simply the result of many years of dealing with the same kind of problems again and again.
https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/204751/scammed-by-spaceberg-cc-lost-700/p1
I agree that his vps may be compromised. But, I can't place an absolute trust on the cyber police too, as information about them is limited and there might be perverse incentives to fabricate evidences, reports, etc.
Yes, it's not your job
Indian Police Love Bribe, Corruption and All
actually Indian cyber crime station's officer think like they are god
they can do anything
they never investigate before writing complaint
Honestly my person experience
I am not here siding with indian police, i am only saying we have to act if we get complains from cybercrime department.
Every indian hosting provider currently hates cyber crime investigation process and rules of india related to this. so i am with you in this case.
I wonder who gets to define what constitutes confidential information?
I'll take cue from this. Have been using hosting services since 2010. Never came across any trouble, except this one lately - which is probably owing to the previous user of the IP that was assigned to me after my recent purchase with them - an Indian host.
Normally hosts get to know that. But yes, as a user, no point in taking all this pain when you can simply avoid it.
Tbh, I think one must be careful before falling prey to cheap offers with long-term prepaid plans, specially from less-known hosting companies. Like they say, "Caveat emptor"! That reminds me of one famous (or rather infamous?) case of HostMyBytes, Woothost & Alpharacks! They had a similar pattern of tricking people into purchasing long term plans at dirt-cheap rates. They probably had the same set of people who were running them under three different names. Many users from LET community fell prey.
I think AWS, Azure, GCP, etc are much reliable, both with the services & compliance. As a user I think it's at times safer using them, despite their premium price, instead of risking with general unknowns.
Usually the one who provides it.