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Is there any way to guarantee your hosting provider does not access your data? That no one can read your storage volumes and a hypervisor can't access instance
by cabirum 5y ago
Is there any way to guarantee your hosting provider does not access your data? That no one can read your storage volumes and a hypervisor can't access instance ram?
- orev 5y agoShort answer: No. Encrypted volumes need to be unlocked, and that needs a key in RAM somewhere. The hosting provider has full access to RAM if they want to, and can extract the keys. I’m not sure if people don’t understand this, or don’t care, but the tsunami of people using the Cloud points to it being some mix of both.
- anthropodie 5y agoI haven't gone that route. Everything is in my home network hosted on couple of Raspberry PIs with HDDs attached. I am going to enable encrypted backups some time in future but I have not decided whether I will choose a cloud provider or choose to do it at my own off-site location. It is possible to encrypt file system on VPS. Maybe you could look into it if you choose to go with cloud provider option. The main reason I avoid them is because of the uncertainty around pricing.