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Chapter 1

Table of VPS Providers

Things you should look for when choosing a provider:

Darknet connection (must allow you to connect via Tor/Onion, I2P/Eepsite etc)
Not require JavaScript, anywhere. If it does this forces you to use specific, usually bloater browsers.
Not have excessive verification. It's not very private if you have to give things like your name, phone number (though you could use something like jmp.chat, this increases the expense and time), or an over burdensome captcha that not only is JavaScript intensive, but is not private as it requires you connect to a third party when you only want to deal with a single party.
Payment in Monero/XMR. Payment in Bitcoin/BTC is an improvement, but Monero/XMR is far more private and there's no real reason not to use it. Most credit cards or debit cards are attached your real ID. Prepaid debit cards can (in certain countries) be purchased in cash without an ID, but will usually only work in-country.
Not have excessive rules. It would suck if it's only hosting for services they agree with. Obviously certain things any provider that plans on sticking around is going to have to ban certain things, but this should be kept as minimal as possible.

If the provider is prohibitively blocking or hard to access it will not necessarily be tested further, which also usually entails paying money.

Name	Eepsite	Onion	Requires JavaScript	Requires Excessive Verification (JS Captcha, Phone, Name etc)	Payment in XMR	Censorship
1984	No	No, and blocks Tor w/out UA			Yes
Bahnhof			Yes	Name, Phone, Captcha	No
Ghandi	No	No	Yes	Yes	No, but takes BTC w/ verified Bitpay account
IncogNET	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Legal
IRCNow					No
Linode		No, and block Tor w/out UA (Cloudflare)	Yes (Cloudflare)	Yes (Cloudflare)
Njalla		Yes	Yes		Yes
OrangeHost		Blocks Tor Entirely
Privex	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Legal

Bahnhof

Most of their site isn't available in English.

Shopping cart requires JS and account with real name, phone number, email address and physical address. Cryptocurrency payment accepted only through third party provider Bitpay, which is Cloudflared, requires solving reCaptcha to register, and probably ID document verification "Due to European regulatory requirements, one-time customer verification is now required for all cryptocurrency payments".

IncogNET

The main list screen you see upon logging into the control panel.

Offers Alpine Linux, FreeBSD, HardenedBSD, NetBSD and some others. Gives options to add a custom ISO, also has a rescue mode. Incognet is heavily dependent on JavaScript for its functionality, including the support center and the registration process. Embeds a Google ReCaptcha script on their sign-up page, but it can be blocked with an extension; doing so will not impact the website's functionality. Payment requires JavaScript. However, personal information still does not have to be given. The control panel interface isn't super smooth and seems to require JS. The VPS control page does not specify Eep or Onion addresses.

The control page is somewhat janky and slow, however having full control over what OS you use and its bootloader combined with a relatively private sign up and payment process makes it one of the best options. Despite changing the OS via a custom ISO, the VM is still marked as the one originally installed (ie Debian).

Does work through Tor, but provides no onion domain for payment.

Downloading an ISO using "ISO Management".

Configuring the boot order, CDROM and VNC.

Slackware ISO in the virtual CDROM.

Starting the VPS.

IRCNow

IRC Now's Plans and Pricing page, with nice Old Western imagery

Offers Slackware, OpenBSD, 9front among others. Seems to want you to contact them over IRC. Has pretty Old West imagery.
Can be contacted via email or IRC, but after being contacted by a member of our team they said "Right now we do not have the ability to accept cryptocurrency payments".
They themselves use BuyVM and AlienData for hosts.^[1] These are believed to be dedicated servers on which the VPSs are run.

1. Debate/Searching for Additional Providers - IRCNow, ? https://wiki.ircnow.org/index.php?n=Debate.Providers http://web.archive.org/web/20210728174957/https://wiki.ircnow.org/index.php?n=Debate.Providers

Linode

Linode's wonderful homepage (Cloudflared).

A provider that maybe used to be good, but went the way of the Clownflare.

Njalla

Select domain option does not work in PaleMoon. Search for domains is better than IncogNET.

OrangeHost

OrangeHost telling Tor Browser Bundle and Werefox users they should "upgrade".

Totally blocks Tor.

Privex

PGP emails are not actually supported, and they request that you use HTML-only emails, the worst kind of email. VNC 404s unless you use a sufficiently bloated browser (ie Librewolf or UGC). The VNC allows you to power on/off and reboot the VPS, which is a non-standard feature. Beyond this, the VNC is non-functional and only gives a gray screen or a TTY notification, rendering it useless for recovery purposes. Also, they only support SystemD distros.

If you try and migrate Arch to Artix, you will be unable to unless it perfectly boots and turns on networking and SSH the first time (it won't). They use their own special bootloader which does not show the GRUB menu, so you cannot edit the boot parameters on startup (or at all it seems). There is also no recovery mode to fix things.

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