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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: iLegalBusinessConsultant on March 16, 2013, 07:45 pm

Title: Foreign country hosting of clearnet website
Post by: iLegalBusinessConsultant on March 16, 2013, 07:45 pm
I have a project I'm working on and would like pick the great minds here on SR

I'm in the USA. I want to create and host an english clearnet website in a foreign country. Looking for best methods/practices. Areas of caution I need to be aware of. And possibly hiring someone to do the work.

I want to create a website that sells products. I want the website to be hosted in a foreign country where USA LE will have a hard time reaching out to the hosting company and shutting down the website. I want the website to have a shopping cart format with pictures, prices in BTC, reviews section. Is this a feasible project?

Thanks for any constructive comments!
Title: Re: Foreign country hosting of clearnet website
Post by: kmfkewm on March 17, 2013, 01:53 am
Panama, Russia, Malaysia. Three countries who have some hosts that allow drug forum hosting and ignore complaints about them anyway. They probably will not tolerate a full fledged massive drug marketplace like SR though, cept maybe some of the Russians might.
Title: Re: Foreign country hosting of clearnet website
Post by: goblin on March 17, 2013, 08:47 pm
Iceland?
Title: Re: Foreign country hosting of clearnet website
Post by: awhiteknight on March 18, 2013, 08:03 am
What I'd do:

Find at least two hosting companies and a registrar that deal in BTC or work with anonymous top-up credit cards, make your site incredibly cache-friendly and have your front-end website be a VPS which runs nothing but a Tor / I2P relay and a caching server.

If your front-end is seized then nobody can find out who you are or where the service is really hosted, if it's shut down then you just switch your DNS to a backup proxy.

Your main attack vector would be having your DNS seized, which is more likely the more infamous you are. So I suggest picking a TLD in a country which doesn't give a fuck about such things.