{"id":60,"date":"2006-03-26T12:41:19","date_gmt":"2006-03-26T12:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bananasplit.info\/?p=60"},"modified":"2006-03-30T11:58:53","modified_gmt":"2006-03-30T11:58:53","slug":"60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/?p=60","title":{"rendered":"Hosting Hunting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recent events with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.layeredtech.com\">Layered Technologies<\/a> lead me to thinking that I must start hunting around for a dedicated server hosting outside of the United States. They are effectively the hub of the Internet in terms of bandwidth availability which makes them the ideal and most cost-effective locale. Unfortunately the legal culture is so tied up in accountability and blame that it&#8217;s clearly not the best place for hosting a <a href=\"http:\/\/tor.eff.org\">Tor<\/a> server that generates a lot of abuse complaints.<\/p>\n<p>Under this litigation culture, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.layeredtech.com\">Layered Technologies<\/a> are probably going to be a fair example of any hosting service provided from the US. This leaves me wondering where the best place really is. At one time Europe would have been the obvious choice but the recent handling of the Prophet Mohammed cartoons leads me to believe that the culture there is also unsuitable. Some people enjoy attacking services like <a href=\"http:\/\/tor.eff.org\">Tor<\/a>, and what more effective way than to use it as a gateway for religious attacks? I suspect that most European ISP&#8217;s will be highly sensitive to that at the moment. I need somewhere that is resilient to stupid abuse complaints and also understands and supports the goals of <a href=\"http:\/\/tor.eff.org\">Tor<\/a>.  Does such a place exist?  More to the point, can I afford to host a volunteer service there?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent events with Layered Technologies lead me to thinking that I must start hunting around for a dedicated server hosting outside of the United States. They are effectively the hub of the Internet in terms of bandwidth availability which makes them the ideal and most cost-effective locale. Unfortunately the legal culture is so tied up&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/?p=60\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hosting Hunting<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-layered-technologies","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}