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

  • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.ml
    15·
    28 days ago

    If it is in the RAM, they can read it. Since it is a virtual server they can freeze and clone the current state and connect to that copy and read all data that is currently encrypted/opened without you even knowing.

    • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.me
      7·
      28 days ago

      Technically a lot of the newer chips used in datacenters support encrypted VMs which encrypts the RAM too, although you still have to trust that the hosting provider uses that feature.