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I think it's great we are moving away from big data collectors and running our own servers. What I usually see is people storing their users' data on servers th
by harianus 8y ago
I think it's great we are moving away from big data collectors and running our own servers. What I usually see is people storing their users' data on servers that are situated in locations where governments can get access to the data on the servers without the owner knowing about it. It's maybe going far in protecting the privacy of your users, but it's something a lot of solutions on the internet don't think about.
That's why I moved Simple Analytics' (https://simpleanalytics.io https://simpleanalytics.io) servers to Iceland where the law will forbid peeking in data before actually informing the owner of the server. I encrypted my server so if anything happens I can just turn it off and it will be nearly impossible to get any user data.
- akudha 8y agoI encrypted my server Could you please share which Iceland host you are using? Also, what is the process you're following to encrypt your server?
- harianus 8y agoI'm using 1984 [1]. I'm writing a blog post on this soon [2], but in short I use Ubuntu Server LVM [3], unlock my system via Dropbear SSH (a very small SSH client)[4] and did move the entry point of incoming data to another server which will store the incoming data only when the main server is down. This is because I want to keep recording incoming data and my encrypted server can't boot without me entering a password. So in case of a power failure the data of my customers will still be recorded. [1] https://1984.is https://1984.is [2] https://blog.simpleanalytics.io https://blog.simpleanalytics.io [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_Volume_Manager_%28Linux%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_Volume_Manager_%28Linu... [4] https://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html https://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html