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You honestly should have put your main website behind Cloudflare or a similar reverse proxy service.
By exposing your origin server directly, it becomes very easy for anyone (including authorities or third parties) to identify your hosting provider and send complaints straight to them. If you had properly proxied your traffic, your origin IP would not be publicly visible, and situations like this would be much harder to escalate so quickly.
Cloudflare isn't an obstacle for authorities.
For some authorities it depends Cloudflare isn’t a barrier, but it does add a layer of protection and prevents just anyone from easily seeing where you’re hosted.
Cloudflare isn’t an obstacle for US authorities, but that’s not its purpose anyway. Its role is to hide the origin server from the public and prevent direct attacks or abuse toward the hosting provider. If it had been properly configured (without exposing the real IP), most reports would have gone to Cloudflare instead of directly to the provider.
Uh no, Cloudflare forwards all reports to the provider.
In cases like DMCA they'll even tell you who the provider is.
Example:
We own the origin server IP.
Cloudflare can forward the reports to ourself.
We will then ignore.
That's why imageperl is configured to use both internal and external hosts. So you can use imageperl to upload images to any of the supported image hosts supported.
So, csam content hosting just slipped away?
Vsys some locations I suppose are DMCA ignored. not all. hope you were in dmca-ignored location. And many web hosts who advertise here on LET as offshore/dmca-ignored, are not always true. If they start receiving dmcas... they gonna shut your server down.
Well, if the servers were only suspended and not terminated, then I can't criticize Vsys. It's common for small hosts to suspend a server after an illegal image complaint to make sure it is removed. Higher-traffic sites usually give the host an API to allow them to remove content directly themselves upon receipt of a report. Absent that, the only API they have to deal with it is the "suspend" button, so that's what they used.
Now, if they were to terminate your server without even letting you handle the complaint and without any evidence that you are negligently allowing illegal content, then it would show that they are not fit for running any even half-serious website (forum, blog with comments enabled, or even pastebin site). But just suspending? That's pretty standard.
Here's something I just found out.
Im.ge has big drama with Ofcom (UK's something something agency) over not implementing well enough CSAM prevention.
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-content/enforcement-programme-into-measures-being-taken-by-file-sharing-and-file-storage-services-to-prevent-users-from-encountering-or-sharing-child-sexual-abuse-material-csam
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/about-ofcom/bulletins/enforcement-bulletin/im.ge/im.ge-rfi-confirmation-decision.pdf?v=410848
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-content/investigation-into-the-provider-of-im.ge-and-its-compliance-with-duties-to-protect-its-users-from-illegal-content
Im.ge has also been fined ~26k UK money in Dec 2025.
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/about-ofcom/annual-reports-and-plans/other-financial-reporting
I guess as he's Indian there's no real way for the UK to enforce these fines. I'm also surprised though that the Indian government isn't even more strict as I thought they loved KYC'ing everything.
RAID is not backup