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

  • @theit8514
    4•1 day ago

    Dunno what rock you were hiding under but this is absolutely possible in a hosted environment. There’s even ESXi documentation on how to do it. Taking a snapshot can be detected, but can’t be prevented. These memory dumps can include encryption keys, private keys (such as SSL certificates) and other sensitive data.

    Unless you can physically touch the drive with your data on it, I would not store any sensitive data on it, encrypted or not.