When choosing a free speech hosting company you should assess the kind of content you host, for example, in the USA although the 1st Amendment protects free speech a powerful multinational can try to get around it by launching a frivolous lawsuit that a small webmaster can’t fight in court due to lack of resources, and in China any pro Tibet website will be taken down by the Government.
You will leave tracks behind when you upload your site and make payments, these companies are not truly anonymous even thought some advertise as such, to host controversial content anonymously use Tor hidden sites or i2P, but they will only be reachable by people using the appropriate software.
Free speech hosting
- DreamHost: Budget host offering shared and dedicated hosting, their terms and conditions allow for any content that is legal in the United States to be hosted, including pornography. DreamHost hosts the American Nazi Party website and refused to take down Prophet Muhammad cartoons even after a denial of service attack was launched against them by Alqeda sympathisers.
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- Vanwatech: Free speech company hosting 8kun, a controversial site that has been de-platformed by numerous hosts. Vanwa tech also provides a no logs VPN, CDN and DDoS protection services reasonable priced.
- Anonymous Speech: Servers located in Asia, it can be paid using cash, Paypal or credit card, this company also provides anonymous domain name registration and encrypted email services that do not keep logs. They offer shared and dedicated hosting, it allows for the creation of sub domains and comes with a free secure email account.
- NearlyFreeSpeech: Webhost based in the US where you only pay for the amount of bandwidth and storage space consumed, it runs its own custom hosting panel, their terms and conditions state that the webmaster must register his real name and address, the company carries out random identity checks asking for a passport scan to be emailed.
- PRQ.se: Servers and company located in Sweden, if your content is legal in Sweden they will host it, no questions asked. They maintain minimum information about their customers and very few logs, PRQ used to host Wikileaks and other highly controversial content, support for SQL databases, SSL certificates and DNS.
Offshore hosting
The following hosts have a free speech policy that comes with restrictions, even if your content is legal they can refuse to host it, the only advantage over other traditional hosting is that their servers are offshore.
- ZenSurfrei: Specialist in offering hosting for neonazi websites in a USA server, where, unlike some European countries, they allow this kind of material. Everything is paid with cash inside an envelope, including the domain name, this guarantees webmaster anonymity.
- OrangeWebsite: Company and servers are all based in Iceland, they will ignore all complaints against legal websites with the exception of racist or pro-paedophilia content, which is not allowed.
- CCiHosting: Operated and hosted in Panama, offering Linux and Windows servers, they advertise their services as anonymous webhosting. Support provided via live chat or phone.
- Ctyme: Based in the USA, they do not allow hosting of content like fiction child sex stories, even thought they are legal in the US, not sure about how their “free speech” policy is any better than HostGator or any other major US.
- AnonymousHosting.in: The company is registered in privacy friendly Seychelles and has a no information exchange policy with complaints, the servers are located in the Netherlands. Pharmaceutical sites are welcome, racist, any type of child porn, hacking and warez are all banned.
- YoHost: Their terms and conditions claims that you can not use their servers to host any kind of porn, sites encouraging the destruction of property will also be removed as well as phishing scams. They only rent a VPS or full server and YoHost will collaborate with law enforcement if criminal content is found.
- KatzGlobal: Offering hosting in multiple Asian locations (Singapore, China, India, Malaysia, Australia) as well as hosting in the US. They use cPanel and have standard features that come with it, like SQL database, FTP access and POP3 mail boxes. There is no support to host multiple domains on a single account.
- SecureHost: Located in the Bahamas, it provides dedicated, shared and VPS hosting, they also provide a Bahamas based phone number and fax which messages can be retrieved from abroad. Their terms and conditions state that you can not host anything that SecureHost judges to be harmful to their reputation.
- Cinipac: Based in Panama, they claim they will not cooperate with authorities or institutions without a proper warrant. Hosting servers are available in the USA, Asia and Europe. The usual phishing, spam and terrorist groups hosting is banned. Backups are encrypted with AES256.
Elmo
Spirit International Hosting has been hosting my dedicated server for 4 years + and they have kept me online. They are responsive and offer 24/7 support. It’s worth including in your list of offshore web hosts!
hacker10
Hello,
Thanks for your comment Elmo, just too bad that Spirit International hosting terms and conditions do not allow for hosting of pornographic material and what they call “politically abusive” websites.
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Dylan
Hi there I’m looking to host my alternative news website in iceland and I wanted to find a domain registrar that was in iceland also who would protect my free speech, do you have any suggestions on good domain registrars?
Thank you I really appreciate it!
hacker10
Hello Dylan,
This one should work for your requirements:
http://www.hacker10.com/other-computing/private-hosting-in-iceland-with-1984-hosting/
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torben
i have domains with anonymoushosting.in which was mentioned in this post. now these guys seem to be gone, support off, emails unanswered and the domains expire. extending the domain runtime is broken at in customer panel, error without any message.
the whois address by this host uses a masked email which has redirected to my own address. now it’s no longer responding, too.
any idea how to resolve even with reseller registrant being off or scam?
hacker10
Hello torben
If a company does not reply to your emails, there is not much that can be done. Whenever possible it is best to go with bigger hosting companies as they are less likely to vanish from one day to another.
Best of luck
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Michael
Hi Hacker10, what is your opinion on SiteGround.com? They have 3 server locations, they are legally incorporated in Panama with HG in Bulgaria. What level of government-cooperation do they have? Will they fight for your rights not to provide your data, emails, logs etc.? Thanks!
Andrey
ServNet is a well know provider for onlionland https://bq2ncjv5qb6zw42p.onion.to/
You manage the logs.
Glen
I know yohost and anonymous speech are the good ones. Anonymoushosting.in stay away. My collegues had few domains with them but the owner of that hosting dissappeared and they lost control over the domains. Not sure about Katzglobal, because they were selling their business some time ago. The was a huge banner, like, “Hey we are looking for someone who will buy our whole business”. No serious company will do like that. CCIhosting suspends accounts because of silly complaints, like, “This website tells bad things about me. Please, help.” I really had to switch over from many offshore hosting companies over last 5 years and this was my exprience. But the choice is yours.
Johnny
Looking for best hosting …anonymous hosting and email for online gaming….any suggestions on that….
Nikolino
I’m hosting my sites with https://www.linuxssdvps.com they are offshore provider in Bulgaria with 100Mbps international and 500Gbps DDOS protection (extra). My VPS server uptime says that is currently 168days online. That is more than 99.9% uptime per month. I have no issue at all DMCA ignored and my sites load in ~2sec worldwide. Already have move to their TOP plan . P.S: Support is semi-managed !
Hacker10
Hello Nikolino,
The only country in the world where DMCA exists is the United States, it is not a great asset saying that you ignore DMCA notices in Bulgaria when the law is exclusive of the US, but I am pretty sure there are copyright laws in Bulgaria, a full European Union member, I am pretty sure they comply with EU legislation.
I looked at your company and there is no mention at all of how you deal with free speech, it looks like your comment was just a way to plug in your company, and not related to free speech but I will allow the comment because it is based offshore.
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Nikolino
Hello Hacker10
I’m actually following your blog (didn’t come for first time to spam around) and I really enjoy reading your articles.
However I have to disagree with you . Firstly its not mine company at all ( I wish I could afford it 🙂 ). Second and most important to mention for you and your readers is that for example France laws and so Bulgarian laws support free speech but free speech have nothing to do with hacking/piracy directly right? Yes both of course have Copyright laws but still there is more complicate to get your content removed (there must be court decision etc etc) because of DMCA takedown request. Finally hosting providers in Bulgaria like ( linuxssdvps ) allow legal adult content, movie streaming + sharing (as long you are linking to third party P2P and not directly hosting the files ).
Also don’t forget that Bulgaria as European Union member is running 2 of the biggest European torrent sites Zamunda.net & Arenabg.net .
Finally since they do accept bitcoin payments .. means that you only have to provide a valid email .
Keep up the good work !
P.S: I’m a bit busy right now but will throw you an email soon would like to discuss something with you.
P.S2: After all , there is no 100% offshore & 100% anon hosting if the local courts hunt them they will shutdown any website . The question is … how easy to be done 🙂
Best Regards,
Nikolino
Hacker10
Hello Nikolino,
I thought it was your company because of the wording sorry about the misunderstanding, just one thing, as I said before, DMCA take down notices is a USA law and does not apply outside the USA. European Union companies don’t have to comply with a DMCA notice, they only need to observe local and EU law.
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Roman
Hello
I am using offshore hosting https://bpw.sc. They provide me server in Ukraine for my project.
Best Regards
Anna
Hello mr Hacker10
I am wondering if you know of any hosting companies, anonymous ones, that will allow content of what other usually describes as ‘violent’ or ‘terrorist’.
As the term ‘terrorist’ is subjective and its implications is in the eyes of the beholder, I have found it hard to find any hosting companies suitable for my purpose, as my message would most likely be deemed as ‘violent’, ‘terrorist’, ‘insurrectionary’ or something of the sort by most governments, at least the ones in affiliation with the United States and/or the European Union.
One mans evil terrorist is another mans revolutionary freedom fighter and I wish to fight for freedom and broadcast my message. Where would I go about doing so, if anywhere?
Regards
Anna
hacker10
Hello,
I understand from your VPN IP that you are posting this anonymously but I am not anonymous here and I can’t answer that question or anything formulated that way.
In addition, your contact email address totally sucks, nobody who cares about privacy uses non encrypted email services anymore. And the unique “pop******” nickname, there really aren’t that many results in DuckDuckGo for that nickname, one account found in Last.FM and another one in YouTube, video views are no more than 200, I bet the NSA has no problem tracking down all 200 viewers and figuring out the real identity for all of them.
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Mehran Hassan
I’m hosting my sites with https://offshorededi.com/ they are offshore provider with servers in, Russia, Sweden, Poland, Netherland Bulgaria with 2 x 500GB HDD / 8GB RAM / 1 Gbps Uplink / 5TB Traffic / Full Root Access, Setup: 2 Days / Free Setup. My VPS server uptime says that is currently 150 days online. That is more than 99.9% uptime per month. I have no issue at all DMCA ignored.
Jas
Shinjiru.com is a pretty good offshore host.
Brandon
I also would like extra info for siteground – Im sure they are a US based company and therefore would comply with all requests even if it is hosted in one of their offshore data centers. Am I wrong in this?
Thanks in advance!
vikrant
which is best anonymous hosting server for my clients who protect my privacy. please suggest some link or company server list. i want cheap and best.
Alex
https://bpserv.host – offshore bulletproof hosting company.
Jim S Smith
Hi,
Do you folks have a similar list for other VPS hosting services? I run two VPS sites on two different services, but worry that one of them is based out of California (a state infamous for zealous, left-centric censorship).
Thanks!
Derek
How about IncogNet? They don’t require personal identifiable information and have off shore (Netherlands and Finland) options that you can pay for crypto. They support free speech and privacy: https://incognet.io/free-speech-webhosting
Marian
There’s also https://www.entexion.com – they don’t openly advertise it on their site, but they’re perfectly fine to ignore DMCA. I’ve asked.