It would be desirable for these VPS providers to have the ability to sell a domain, payment by cryptocurrency including XMR and answer questions via email quickly and not 7 days of waiting)) And also the cost per month was no more than $ 5-8 for 1GB RAM, 1 CPU, 25GB DISK, 1TB TRANSFER (tx + rx)
It would also be great if this site does not have google trackers, java scripts and other NON-free garbage…
I agree that my requirements are not simple. I don’t know why there are no such VPSs yet, it would be very, very popular in the free environment and not only…
There is a useful site here https://kycnot.me/, by the way, very clean in terms of trackers, java, etc.
But here there is more emphasis on cryptocurrency.
To point you at a company that can register a domain for you, you would have to specify which TLD you are looking at. I mean, sure, if you just want .com then just about anyone can do that for you but …
My personal preference is to separate domain registration from VPS - so that if something bad happens at the company (e.g. they close down) or you miss an email from them or you miss a payment … you don’t lose everything at once. (Likewise I have VPSs with two different companies, and domains with another two different companies.) I guess that reflects the fact that for practical purposes I am prioritising availability over the strictest adherence to other criteria e.g. cost, payment method, privacy, convenience.
As we don’t know what you intend to do with the VPS, we can’t take that into account.
I suggest using supplementary functionality to mitigate Google surveillance e.g. Privacy Blocker browser extension and Pi-Hole or similar to blackhole some Google domains.
I think Javascript is largely a lost cause. It is a tangent topic on why you refuse Javascript. In any case, such a requirement certainly would rule out any company that I deal with for this purpose. (It also rules out this forum.)
You asked what is missing? Please clarify what site you mean? In the first message I wrote what I as a user would like to have when buying a VPS.
I agree with you about the domain. As for the cleanliness of the site from the point of view of google scripts, scripts, for me as a user it is important that none of this is there, a good example is the Guix site, below is a screenshot)) I just turned on LibreJS
I checked which VPS use free distros, and found out that:
I am sure that if, for example, someone now takes up this issue, that is, creating a VPS with free distros, he will receive big money and tens of thousands of happy customers, since this is very necessary now, evil corporations have captured a large piece of the market. When someone reads this message and uses this idea, you can send me 5% )))
Someone will say that you can buy, for example, FreedomBox https://www.freedombox.org/ or something similar, yes, this is a good example, but VPS gives a different physical location or residential IP…
If you sell it badly, there will be no demand, look at how Steve Jobs sold his product, he did NOT come up with anything new, everyone had come up with it 100 times before! The free community needs its own Steve Jobs, that is, someone who will sell it correctly. Bad managers always make excuses and everyone is to blame, but not them, and good ones are always successful!
unfortunately this is your subjective opinion, you need to conduct a mass survey on social networks and other popular places and create a post correctly, and not just ask whether you like free software or not))
Prove otherwise then, as results speak much louder than actions or words.
If such a claim was true, assuming you speak on behalf of society in the first place, you would not be having so much difficulty fulfilling your criteria or society’s demand right now, and thus you would not need to create a topic on the Purism community forums.
I do not need nor have interest in soliciting others for anything, especially on social networks and other popular places I have severed long ago for various reasons. I operate privacy front-ends to not collect nor care about data from clients, so you will have to find someone else more willing to own your plan instead, ideally yourself:
To prove it, you need to have user statistics, these statistics can be collected over a certain period of time, then you and I and other users will have evidence. It seems logical to me.
I speak for myself (I never wrote that I speak for the community)!
As for the difficulties of the criteria, there are facts, namely, now there are NO VPS with free distros by default to choose from! Not just Trisquel or Parabola and it is the choice as it works now when you rent a VPS, you are offered Debian Ubuntu by default, etc.
This is a fact that you cannot argue with or prove otherwise!
Achieving results has no dependencies on user statistics, only perseverance and resource allocation. It could start with a step as simple as purchasing a Librem Server, or as costly as a Talos II:
Some web hosting providers allow you to install your own distribution, such as BuyVM/FranTech:
Is that asking too much? I understand the power of defaults but there are VPS providers that allow you to download an ISO from anywhere on the internet so as to make it available to your as yet uninstalled new VPS. (The ISO will disappear after X hours.) So they are in no way preventing you from using Trisquel, Parabola, … They just aren’t making it as easy as staples like Ubuntu, Debian and of course Windows.
To summarise my question, in the OP twice you wrote that something is missing from two specific sites that you provided links for, without saying what specifically is missing from each site. I guess one way of looking at it is a matrix with required attributes on one axis and VPS providers on the other axis, filled in with what you have found so far.
This criteria is mainly focused on DDoS protection and (Tor) abuse handling, since Purism has been affected by DDoS attacks in the past, while (Tor) abuse handling provides more leeway for Purism’s branding.
Yes, you are right, the user has such an option via VNC, which is not the best solution))
It is not a fact that you will be allowed to upload your ISO, you need to look for such VPS providers well, plus those additional points that I mentioned.
I am talking about another story, when there are VPS that have not only ISO with free distros by default, but also equipment, at least with Coreboot or GnuBoot, etc.
We are not talking about a private story, we are talking about VPS with free distros, so the user does not need to buy servers, since he needs an IP address that is physically located in another country.
I answered above, that they MAY allow you to install a free distro is one of the points… you also need to look at the cost of renting a VPS per month, the location of the servers, the minimum ping, paying XMR, the ethics of the site itself, etc.
This is not such a simple task as it might seem to you, these are high requirements.
