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Best place to host zoo media?

idreamofknots

idreamofknots

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Hi,

I'm researching a place to put a server where me and a few select friends can share a few big zoo files. It won't be public and the number of users should be less than 10 at most times. I just don't want to bother with the likes of google or dropbox (saw a few content creators I follow get banned from them).

Right now I'm considering a very bare-bones ftp server. Does anyone have any experience with host providers they recommend, practices I should pay attention to (encryption, security etc.) and other things? I'm tech-savvy, but I'm asking a broader question to get a bigger range of responses.

All the best, folks :)
 
I would suggest TOR and use an old box with linux (Debian 10 is pretty good) and put it in a closet.
Unless you don't have the pipes?
 
Do not use any paid VPS unless you pay with bitcoin but even that can be traced to you. Server providers do have access to the drives on their machines and will not bother protecting you if you break the law. You can encrypt the drives if they allow it, but if it becomes known that you host illegal content in any other way, they will hand you over.
In fact I do not think there is any safe way of sharing illegal content that is bullet proof. If you use your own server, you are still connected through your IPS or VPN which are again companies that will hand you over.
There is a tool that uses p2p end to end encrypted protocol based on torrent that you run on your computer. That way you have a shared folder which requires a password. But then again torrents are easily detectable and once it becomes known that you host illegal content through the users being idiots, you are in trouble.
 
Makes sense, I suppose I can host it in my own house (have a spare Pi lying around that might do the trick) and only provide access through tor or with a home vpn. Either will mask traffic from ISPs and others.

Since only a small group of people will have access to it, a Pi really should do the trick.
 
I just use tor with apache - works nice - though copying my whole collection takes about a month XD A pi would work for that, though I didn't make any speed tests. Regular encrypted file transfer is capped at about 10-11mbytes/sec there so it doesn't need much to become a bottleneck. If you also want people to upload stuff I can get you a shitty upload script I did that even works over a tor2web gateway (you might want to share with people who don't use tor) by chunking uploads. else they get killed at about 1mb I think or two. You could also do webdav or something to have a full-fledged fileshare or a nextcloud instance or something - but overhead kinda hurts over tor.
 
Yes :) I also try out other stuff - for example I now have a chat design that works over a tor2web gateway and is stable as long as that gateway works - so you can chat from the clearnet with an irc server with tor as the backend (or just using tor browser which is more stable - but couldn't just scan a qr code on a phone and join and who's gonna type an onion address)
 
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