Re: [liberationtech] Secure, inexpensive hosting of activist sites

2013-04-22 Thread Alfredo Lopez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/22/2013 03:08 PM, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: > micah: >> Eugen Leitl writes: >> >>> On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 03:07:35PM +0200, ilf wrote: >>> I can't believe this bullshit thread recommending *only* commercial services. >>> This is a c

Re: [liberationtech] Secure, inexpensive hosting of activist sites

2013-04-22 Thread Jacob Appelbaum
micah: > Eugen Leitl writes: > >> On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 03:07:35PM +0200, ilf wrote: >> >>> I can't believe this bullshit thread recommending *only* >>> commercial services. >> >> Look, free is distinctly unaffordable. If you need a dedicated box >> somebody has got to pay for the hosting an

Re: [liberationtech] Secure, inexpensive hosting of activist sites

2013-04-22 Thread Jon Camfield
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/18/2013 04:45 PM, Hisham wrote: > Hi all, > > Activists whose sites come under attack struggle to find cheap > solutions to keep their websites safely guarded. Many of them are > looking for secure, inexpensive hosting. I've come across many suc

Re: [liberationtech] Secure, inexpensive hosting of activist sites

2013-04-22 Thread Travis McCrea
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Either I missed it, or it wasn't posted: dod.net is a wonderful 501(c)3 which has a great distributed network of servers and is super big on privacy protection and their clients data. It's free to host with them, but they ask for donations. Also Bu

Re: [liberationtech] Secure, inexpensive hosting of activist sites

2013-04-22 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 09:26:05PM -0400, micah wrote: > Can't rely on them to be there for what exactly? Just being there and responsive for the entire duration you need them. > Where is the liberatory technological element to recommending commercial The liberatory technological element is

Re: [liberationtech] Secure, inexpensive hosting of activist sites

2013-04-21 Thread Andrew Harris
Ehhh, it can block some stuff, but it's not bulletproof against DDoS attacks and certainly not any sort of injection attack. And I certainly wouldn't call it an anonymizer by any means whatsoever, considering that a lot of people leave their direct A record in place (direct.example.com -> IP behind

Re: [liberationtech] Secure, inexpensive hosting of activist sites

2013-04-21 Thread Brad Beckett
I have the ability to host such hostile sites. E-mail me with your budget and I'll let you know what I can do. Our servers are highly optimized for performance and security of Wordpress CMS. Respectfully, Brad Beckett On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 6:26 PM, micah wrote: > Eugen Leitl writes: > > >

Re: [liberationtech] Secure, inexpensive hosting of activist sites

2013-04-21 Thread micah
Eugen Leitl writes: > On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 03:07:35PM +0200, ilf wrote: > >> I can't believe this bullshit thread recommending *only* commercial >> services. > > Look, free is distinctly unaffordable. If you need a dedicated > box somebody has got to pay for the hosting and remote hands. > A

Re: [liberationtech] Secure, inexpensive hosting of activist sites

2013-04-21 Thread Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes
yeah, and there's only one "Swedish Pirate Party" in the world: http://organic.typepad.com/threeminds/2013/02/swedish-pirate-party.html Best Regards | Cordiales Saludos | Grato, Andrés L. Pacheco Sanfuentes +1 (817) 271-9619 On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: > On Sun, Apr 21

Re: [liberationtech] Secure, inexpensive hosting of activist sites

2013-04-21 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 03:07:35PM +0200, ilf wrote: > I can't believe this bullshit thread recommending *only* commercial > services. Look, free is distinctly unaffordable. If you need a dedicated box somebody has got to pay for the hosting and remote hands. Activists donating own resources ar

Re: [liberationtech] Secure, inexpensive hosting of activist sites

2013-04-21 Thread ilf
Hisham: Activists whose sites come under attack struggle to find cheap solutions to keep their websites safely guarded. Many of them are looking for secure, inexpensive hosting. I can't believe this bullshit thread recommending *only* commercial services. How about checking out this list? h

Re: [liberationtech] Secure, inexpensive hosting of activist sites

2013-04-21 Thread Jens Christian Hillerup
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 10:45 PM, Hisham wrote: > Activists whose sites come under attack struggle to find cheap solutions > to keep their websites safely guarded. Many of them are looking for > secure, inexpensive hosting. I've come across many such cases, from > Senegal, to Zambia to Egypt to M

Re: [liberationtech] Secure, inexpensive hosting of activist sites

2013-04-21 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 08:50:22PM +, Andreas Bader wrote: > Hetzner Germany is pretty good. > We use it since years and never had problems with it. Hetzner is good and cheap (though no longer that cheap) but they'll drop you like a hot potato in case of ever the slightest problems. I would

Re: [liberationtech] Secure, inexpensive hosting of activist sites

2013-04-20 Thread Chris Croome
Hi On Fri 19-Apr-2013 at 10:19:03PM +0100, Bill Best wrote: > > This company has hosting in Iceland: > > http://ecodissident.net Thanks for the plug! We can also provide shared hosting in Iceland based on the prices here: https://webarch.net/shared-hosting All the best Chris -- Webarchite

Re: [liberationtech] Secure, inexpensive hosting of activist sites

2013-04-19 Thread Bill Best
On 18 April 2013 21:45, Hisham wrote: > Hi all, > > Activists whose sites come under attack struggle to find cheap solutions to > keep their websites safely guarded. Many of them are looking for secure, > inexpensive hosting. I've come across many such cases, from Senegal, to > Zambia to Egypt to

Re: [liberationtech] Secure, inexpensive hosting of activist sites

2013-04-19 Thread liberationtech
On Fri, 19 Apr 2013 03:13:06 -0400 Shava Nerad wrote: > Doesn't cloudflare block Tor? I've seen complaints from wordpress > installations using their plugin... Just so it's said, since most people won't read the tor-talk links posted later in this thread: No, cloudflare doesn't block tor expli

Re: [liberationtech] Secure, inexpensive hosting of activist sites

2013-04-19 Thread Shava Nerad
Doesn't cloudflare block Tor? I've seen complaints from wordpress installations using their plugin... Shava Nerad shav...@gmail.com On Apr 18, 2013 4:49 PM, "Nadim Kobeissi" wrote: > While not technically a hosting solution, CloudFlare can definitely help > secure websites against many co

Re: [liberationtech] Secure, inexpensive hosting of activist sites

2013-04-18 Thread Hisham
Will be writing off list to those of you who offered help. Thanks for your input and generosity. Cheers, H On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 9:22 PM, Edouard Poitras wrote: > We offer such hosting for people in this exact scenario. Nothing as > robust as CloudFlare in terms of DDoS resistance, but certa

Re: [liberationtech] Secure, inexpensive hosting of activist sites

2013-04-18 Thread Edouard Poitras
We offer such hosting for people in this exact scenario. Nothing as robust as CloudFlare in terms of DDoS resistance, but certainly secure (and free). We also offer to host the DNS. Typically a site will just want to be back up as soon as possible with web-ftp access, but we can also put in the

Re: [liberationtech] Secure, inexpensive hosting of activist sites

2013-04-18 Thread Griffin Boyce
> > On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 4:56 PM, xek3149 wrote: > >> The problem with Cloudflare is that it is difficult to connect to sites >>> using Tor. Either they (Cloudflare) are blocking Tor outright or they are >>> restricting the number of connections per IP address. >>> >> Here's the discussion o

Re: [liberationtech] Secure, inexpensive hosting of activist sites

2013-04-18 Thread Griffin Boyce
Nadim Kobeissi wrote: > On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 4:56 PM, xek3149 wrote: > >> The problem with Cloudflare is that it is difficult to connect to sites >> using Tor. Either they (Cloudflare) are blocking Tor outright or they are >> restricting the number of connections per IP address. >> > Are ther

Re: [liberationtech] Secure, inexpensive hosting of activist sites

2013-04-18 Thread Nadim Kobeissi
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 4:56 PM, xek3149 wrote: > The problem with Cloudflare is that it is difficult to connect to sites > using Tor. Either they (Cloudflare) are blocking Tor outright or they are > restricting the number of connections per IP address. > Are there any references regarding this?

Re: [liberationtech] Secure, inexpensive hosting of activist sites

2013-04-18 Thread xek3149
The problem with Cloudflare is that it is difficult to connect to sites using Tor. Either they (Cloudflare) are blocking Tor outright or they are restricting the number of connections per IP address. () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attach

Re: [liberationtech] Secure, inexpensive hosting of activist sites

2013-04-18 Thread Griffin Boyce
Nadim Kobeissi wrote: > While not technically a hosting solution, CloudFlare can definitely help > secure websites against many common attacks. It's free and works with > almost any hosting provider. > > https://www.cloudflare.com/ > Seconded. It also helps hide one's hosting provider. One p

Re: [liberationtech] Secure, inexpensive hosting of activist sites

2013-04-18 Thread Andreas Bader
Hisham: > Hi all, > > Activists whose sites come under attack struggle to find cheap solutions to > keep their websites safely guarded. Many of them are looking for > secure, inexpensive hosting. I've come across many such cases, from > Senegal, to Zambia to Egypt to Morocco. Some of them ask for

Re: [liberationtech] Secure, inexpensive hosting of activist sites

2013-04-18 Thread Nadim Kobeissi
While not technically a hosting solution, CloudFlare can definitely help secure websites against many common attacks. It's free and works with almost any hosting provider. https://www.cloudflare.com/ NK On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Hisham wrote: > Hi all, > > Activists whose sites come u

[liberationtech] Secure, inexpensive hosting of activist sites

2013-04-18 Thread Hisham
Hi all, Activists whose sites come under attack struggle to find cheap solutions to keep their websites safely guarded. Many of them are looking for secure, inexpensive hosting. I've come across many such cases, from Senegal, to Zambia to Egypt to Morocco. Some of them ask for temporary hosting to