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Port-scanning-friendly hosting company?
I'm a security researcher that, from times to times, needs to perform high-speed and Internet-wide port scanning (using masscan or zmap) to discover open ports and collect protocol-specific banners (no brute-force or anything illegal). In the past, I have used DigitalOcean droplets for that purpose, but I'm looking for a better long-term solution. Port scanning, even if done responsibly, is unfortunately always explicitly denied in hosting companies' Acceptable Use Policies.
Hence why I'm posting on WebHostingTalk, trying to find a provider that:
- has a good reputation (no shady resellers);
- tolerates port scanning (again, no ill intent);
- Ignoring abuse.
Now with regards to the dedicated server itself, I'm looking for something with low-end specs. Let's say 4- 6 cores, 16-32 GB of RAM,, most importantly, a good network connection (unmetered 1 Gb/s would be perfect). Payment can be done via Paypal, or credit card.
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Nobody because they would find their ip ranges in various blocklists
Wrong "port".
https://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1316137
https://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1877621
Some hosting ignore abuse.
Who is Webhostingtalk?
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don't seem to go together. If you are mass-scanning random hosts on the internet, then you are not scanning responsibly. You are the problem that everyone hates.
I am curious though. Plenty of security companies do port scanning and all kinds of mass scanning.
Basic example is shodan, but there are lots of them that dont make their data public e.g. recordedfuture
What infrastructure are they all using?
Censys exists too:
https://bgp.tools/as/398324
https://bgp.tools/as/398705
https://bgp.tools/as/398722
https://bgp.tools/rir-owner/ARIN-CENSY (Even have a /24 on GCP)
At the size of Recorded Future, they can pay so much money any hosting provider would be more than glad to have them.
They colo their own servers with their own IPs.
In the last thread they said gravhosting. GL tho
In which thread?link ?
Hostloc, go there.
https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/4727413/#Comment_4727413
There is no company information on their invoice, so you can't deduct the cost if your are a business.
They are as shady as the so called bulletproof hosts.
You can only pay with crypto. The use Heleket like all the other shady hosts.
But they do accept port scanning and their servers are fast and have decent uptime compared to for example most DMCA ignored hosts.