HACKER Q&A
📣 fllajnw

Recommendations for anonymous web hosting resistant to takedown?


I'm working on a project that infringes copyright (but does nothing else illegal), and would like to publish it where it will be both out of the reach of DMCA type takedowns, and give me privacy from direct legal action.

I have it temporarily running in a Tor hidden service and am using trying tor2web gateways to access, but this is slow and unreliable.

What recommendations can anyone give as to a better hosting setup?

  👤 LinuxBender Accepted Answer ✓
"Bulletproof Hosting" is what people might try to link. It doesn't exist. Ultimately all providers have uplinks to a network provider and each layer of reseller will protect those expensive links. Illegal material will draw the attention of people that can have the servers and network gear seized and the links terminated. There are providers that are friendly to hosting spam/malware because authorities don't really care about those things. There was a time when certain countries would be resistant to take-downs but those days are long behind us. The bigger the group of people you are sharing content with and the more money that content is worth will be a factor to how long it takes for the server to be disabled.

Your current method of using Tor might be temporarily working but with time if it gathers attention from certain people it will get DDoS'd and eventually blackhat security researchers may find a weakness that allows them to get your real IP address and location. You will see these attempts if you are logging the first few KBytes of the POST body and of course normal access logging.

👤 throwaway93931
Simple answer DON'T.

It doesn't matter how well you think your site is hidden or where it's hosted, if you get the attention of the authorities they WILL come for you. As in physically come get you.