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Why Use a Country-Level Domain Extension?

Using overseas hosting (outside the United States) is a smart move and something we encourage — it can provide greater privacy, legal protection, and sovereignty over your data.

However, hosting alone is not enough.

Even if you host your website (for example, on a .com) in a country like Germany, while your files and database may be safe, your domain name itself can still be subject to U.S. law. Many domain extensions — including .com, .net, .org, .info, .us, and .edu — are governed by U.S. jurisdiction.

Additionally, many word-based domain extensions — such as .social — are managed by private corporations based in the United States, which can still put your domain name at risk of legal or commercial interference. Corporations can also be easily bought or influenced, unlike sovereign nations. Historically, sovereign nations tend to seek to hold onto their sovereignty — even when they are financially broke or fundamentally broken.

Domain takedowns are rare, but the possibility exists — especially in today's unstable political climate. For example, even close allies like Canada have experienced tension with the U.S., and Donald Trump even tried to instruct Microsoft to discontinue services to Denmark, raising the question: What is "normal" anymore?

I've been with Cynderhost Web Hosting for years, and during most of that time, I couldn't say enough good things about them. The price was right, my shared hosting sites were fast. And I mean, really fast. Lately, though, the hosting has gone down hill. Not sure if they are just focusing more on the higher tier hosting that is more expensive or the hosting just isn't as good as it used to be. My sites have been running much slower over the past few months. And I mean, noticeably slower. I've reached out to them multiple times and each time, they say they've done something in the background and my sites should now be faster. They're not. Listen, I know it's shared hosting and I shouldn't complain, but the sites used to be fast. What's changed?

Looks like I have to start looking for new hosting but cost is always the stopper. I'm unemployed and, quite frankly, broke. Unfortunately, the only way I can use hosting is to use shared hosting, which will probably just suck. I should just get used to it, I guess?

Ah, unemployment. I don't recommend it.

Now hosted in a Canadian 🇨🇦 repo (formerly 🇪🇺): worktree.ca/taffer/canadian-al

My list of Canadian alternatives to various big tech Internet services. Tired of having your data (and money) flow to a rogue state? Maybe these can help.

Updates/suggestions welcome!

Worktreecanadian-alternativesA collection of Canadian alternatives to common Internet services in the spirit of the various Awesome lists.

Mein Blog hat ein neues Zuhause

Mein Blog Secunis.de ist umgezogen – und zwar nicht irgendwohin, sondern in seine neue, wohlverdiente Heimat bei Manitu GmbH. 🎉

Ich war auf der Suche nach einem Hoster, der Wert auf Datenschutz, Open-Source-Lösungen, Transparenz und – vor allem – Menschlichkeit legt. Und was soll ich sagen? Bei @team fühlt sich alles von Anfang an richtig an. Stabil, schnell, fair, transparent – und dazu noch mit Herz. Genau das, was mein Blog braucht, um sich so richtig wohlzufühlen.

Danke an Manitu für den fast reibungslosen Umzug – die kleinen Stolpersteine hab ich selbst mitgebracht. 😅 Schön, dass ihr mit mir weiter auf dieser Reise seid.

I'm looking to migrate our website domains to services not owned by google/squarespace, and our web host to something cheaper than bluehost.

It's just a simple wordpress website for a card game, Penguinslap.com. We don't really get any traffic at all. Very occasionally we make a sale, and those links redirect to a PayPal site.

Any suggestions?

OK so this wasn't me but my heart is pounding like it was. I just found out a colleague had their hosting hacked (all their clients sites) because someone else on the box was hacked.
Now I'm no security expert but I'm damned sure every client's site should be secure and independent from every other account and my over all space should be independent from every other client on the box.

I have a #Linux #WebHosting question but not sure how to ask it.
My current server might be a bit messed up, organizationally.
When you have multiple subdomains, what are the best practices in organizing folders?
Are things usually on different servers? My use case is personal projects so I don't need a ton of resources. I was thinking of putting everything on a single cloud server, but didn't think about folder organization until after building a few, then realized the mess.

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The caller emailed as the voicemail said she would, and the email is MUCH more sales pitch. "Our monitoring system flagged malware and/or vulnerabilities... this can result in serious risks like... we specialize in identifying and resolving..."

LOL, no.

Any suggestions for non-scammy webhosts, especially not in the US? I currently use self-hosted WordPress for my site, but have considered alternatives.

I just got a phone call purportedly from Bluehost, referring to my URL specifically, saying it looks like there is a malware attack on my site. I have had a couple of unknown site views today. But there is no clear problem with my site, and I am aware that SiteLock and others are shady as hell.

Is this a scam? Is this a good reason to just shut down my old site and find a new host? Is this the kick in the butt I've been waiting for?

hey, does anyone know an indie web-friendly hosting platform?

Neocities is the most well known one, but it has been really slow for me when i used it

Nekoweb is way faster, but the owner has been involved in drama both a while back and recently (and i don't have the energy for internet drama considering how draining fediverse meta already is)

NSFN seems to have quite the good offers servicewise but they unfortunately have a very right libertarian stance
😭

there was another one i don't remember the name of that was recommended by fediverse users, but i requires certain advanced hosting knoweldge compared to the more simpler options i told earlier that makes it harder for me to get into.

#webhosting #internet #indieweb

List of service providers outside the United States jurisdiction. 😉

The list has moved to a place where it can expand beyond the character limits of the Fediverse, to an easy to navigate index list, on Codeberg (an alternative to GitHub or GitLab)

https://codeberg.org/Linux-Is-Best/Outside_Us_Jurisdiction


#Vpn #Dns #Cdn #Email #WebHosting #SearchEngine #PasswordManager #RuleOfLaw #Justice #FreedomOfSpeech #Project2025 #Facism #Nazis #CodeBerg #GitHub #GitLab

Summary card of repository Linux-Is-Best/Outside_Us_Jurisdiction
Codeberg.orgOutside_Us_JurisdictionDigital Service Providers outside the jurisdiction of the United States of America.