How independent you'd have to be to be secure? Quite a whole lot. If you use a VPS, you can (will) be owned by your VPS provider and any Internet provider your

How independent you'd have to be to be secure? Quite a whole lot. If you use a VPS, you can (will) be owned by your VPS provider and any Internet provider your traffic goes through. If you use colocation or self host, you will have to live without or self host/mantain/develop many alternatives for usual tools AND you can (will) be owned by all the internet providers your traffic goes through. Not a very nice scenario.