Can the vps provider not read everything on your server, unless it’s explicitly encrypted?

I’m asking because I’m interested in self-hosting mainly as a way to get privacy respecting services where good hosted ones don’t exist. I’m not sure I really want to deal with running my own hardware

  • haverholm@kbin.earth
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    1 day ago

    The important difference between a paid VPS subscription and a free account with <GENERIC EVIL BILLIONAIRE>s online services is how they are financed. With the latter, definitely assume you’re the product, specifically your data.

    Any VPS provider should have a privacy policy, and as a user you should acquaint yourself with the securities they (claim to) provide. The fact that you pay even a pittance for their service should be an incentive not to monetise or snoop your data.

    But yeah, short of an encrypted online backup service, I’d never put “very private data” online at all…