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[edit] Requirements for Anonymous hosting

There different levels for need of anonymity.
- Whois Proxies exchange your domain whois information with their domain information and may provide a certain protection, see below for details.
- Private Registration of a domain, the registrar will know your personal information but not publish it. Also safe from domain whois.
- Complete anonymity, where you never leave personal information and contact them only using networks like Tor.
And different levels of censor resistance.
- Political content.
- Warez.
- Complete censor resistance, Tor hidden services, i2p eepSites, freenet freesites.

[edit] Payment Methods

Prepaid MasterCard Spendon (available in 7-Elevens & Pressbyrås in Sweden & Norway by time of writing) - need an IRL proxy to buy one for you? mail us! (Send your public key in the mail, or use IRC with SSL encryption.)
- This seems odd :O? dont mail us! or at least, dont mail me :d
Prepaid Voucher Codes: UKash (U), PaySafeCard (PSC)
Virtual Credit Cards: TalkGold Forum
you can use Ukash codes to buy a virtual credit card at UkashNeo. It is confirmed to work even with Paypal.
Convert Bitcoin to virtual Visa cards at Bitcoin 2 Credit Card. Automatic exchange. Works with PayPal/Amazon.
Directly pay in Bitcoin, which you can get at MtGox (which accept EUR bank transfers)

[edit] Whois Proxies

They register a domain for you with their information, protecting your personal data. Here are some questions, we should ask when choosing a whois proxy.

But how they can be trusted?
How reliable are them?
How long are them in business?
Who else is using them for how long?
How can you be sure, they won't collaborate with whom you seek anonymity from?
How can you be sure, they won't redirect your URL to a offer of their own, after your URL got popular?

If you know any Whois Proxies and can add any information, add them below.

[edit] Money Exchangers

If the hoster doesn't accept prepaid vouchers directly (most of them don't), you need to exchange these vouchers. Most of those exchangers are shady, and rates differ notably, so look out and read before giving away your money. I have no experience with any of them, don't ask.

XMLGold looks better than most others
Moneystream.RU has been around for quite a while
Cashu-Ukash.com was allways very fast
Bitcoin
Bitcoin 4 Cash Buy Bitcoin with cash in the mail. Use the received Bitcoin with a "BTC" tagged host below.
Sources: TalkGold Forum , Exchange Money Place

While some exchange into Paypal, you probably won't be able to maintain a verified account there with fake data. From my experience it's best to first look into what exchanges are offered, at which prices, and THEN look for a hoster that supports these methods. The idea here is to build a collection of useful "pairs" of exchangerate<->hoster availability. Liberty Reserve is a good bet with fair pricing and a lot of exchangers.

[edit] Hosters

I have no experience with any of them, don't ask.

PP = Paypal (useless, left out), MB=Moneybookers, LR=Liberty Reserve, AP = AlertPay, WM = WebMoney, PSC = PaySafeCard, UKS = Ukash, BTC = BitCoin

Zhang Ltd. - PSC/UKS Hong Kong based hosting company, servers in Turkey, Czech, Russia, Ukraine, Hong Kong
Cinfu - MB/LR/BC German based hosting company.
Santrex - MB/AP/LR/WM
Sh3lls - MB/LR/AP
Shinjiru (Malaysia) - LR
Cinipac - MB/LR/WM/PSC/UKS/WM/BTC
Xtraorbit - MB/LR/AP
NVHServer - MB/LR/WM/AP
CanHost.US - says hosts in Singapur and is situated in India, says accepts MB/LR/AP, see wjunction.com forum offer
Hosts3 - MB/LR/AP
TurboVPS - MB/LR
ServeByte - MB/LR
KiloServe - MB/LR
BurstNET - LR/AP
Black Lotus - LR/WM
AltusHost - AP/MB
WRZHost - MB/LR/AP
2x4.ru - UKS PSC WM
VindoHosting - PP MB LR
Hosting.ua - Ukrainian WM
Wooservers - US LR
ethduo - LR
Vekja - USA Hosting - BTC
Hostarium - Russian Hosting - BTC
Kalyhost - BTC
Vserver - BTC
EXOWare - BTC
AutoVPS (Virtual Servers) - BTC

Feel free to add reviews and more detailed info.

Another list: http://www.bitcoinsites.com/web-hosting

[edit] Complete Guide for Mega-Paranoids

Whereever this guide says "random" it means random. Not "make something up". Making stuff up can potentially leak info about yourself. Correct random:

cat "/dev/random" | tr -cd "$CHARSET" | head -c "$LENGTH" && echo

Get some Bitcoins
Fetch tor + polipo sources
You will need them, and it would be optimal, if the specific set of client software you're going to use later never exits from your home IP, that's why you download tor now.
Get a bootable media, i.e. USB-Stick or preferrably Micro-SD Card.
Install debian stable on said medium, obviously ensure medium is encrypted as good as possible
Debian stable is not glorious. But fetching debian stable from the internet certainly does not count as suspicious.
As a kernel, use a kernel with no harddisk drivers whatsoever
Information is moving between your main system and the anon system only while your main system's code is running. If something gets executed while the anon system is active, malware cannot attack your main system (so easily).
Configure tor + polipo on the new root filesystem without yet booting from there
If something goes wrong, you can use all your usual clients to look around for HOWTOs
Ensure no traffic leaves that system, except over tor, one way to do it (in _very_ early init script):

iptables -F OUTPUT
iptables -A OUTPUT -j ACCEPT -m owner --uid-owner telecomix
iptables -A OUTPUT -j ACCEPT -o lo
iptables -P OUTPUT DROP
iptables -L -v

su -c "su telecomix -s bin/tor"

Reboot from new medium
Update the debian to a serious version, install all the software you might want to use
Register hotmail address
hotmail is USA based, many users, if you took a "well known" other freemail provider, you might take someone which is "well known" only to you (or a few others)
All "personal" info must be random. Choose a random ZIP, then google for it, take the first city + street you find.
Download bitcoin client, create new wallet, publish your receiving BTC address in this wiki, ask for suppor for anonymous hosting (see below)
Wait a random number (> 7) of days
Reboot into your main system, peruse through the telecomix wiki, "find" this page, transfer a part of your bitcoins to the new wallet
Certainly, it is not illegal to help people who simply ask around, bonus points if you transfer to at least one other, random address of that list (so some other guy gets two incoming payments, making it impossibly for law-enforment working from the other side to find out who was the main financier of his anon server)
Wait a random number (> 7) of days
Reboot into anon system, make yet another wallet, transfer a part of your anon bitcoins to that new address, repeat a random number of times (> 3), wait a random number of hours between
Use the above hoster list to find a BTC hoster you trust to give you root on something
Pay using your anon bitcoins

Where to go from there:

Ask info@datalove.me for a subdomain (which will be granted on unspecified and certainly undisclosed, possibly random terms)
When posting longer texts, ensure only to use frequently used words, optimally auto-translate _everything_ either from your native language to english or from english to native back to english (debian helpfully provides the "apertium" package, also compare http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Frequency_lists)

Word usage can be used as an identifying criterion. Translating your text will fuck with that.

When connecting to the box, use a terminal emulator which adds a random amount of delay between keypress and it being send (or groups the keys before sending them) (no, we don't yet have that software)

Inter-key delay can be used as an identifying criterion.

[edit] Comparison by adrelanos

July 2012.

I was looking for a hoster for aos (anonymous operating system). Therefore I looked into lots of so called offshore or anonymous hosting companies. Most of those hosting companies do not really provide anonymous usage, most require valid registration data, forbid registration over Tor and/or do not offer anonymous payment methods.

The ones listed in the following list are Tor user friendly, accept anonymous registration and can be payed anonymously by BTC or paysafecard. Since aos is legal in most jurisdictions it's unproblematic. Therefore I haven't checked their policy on warez, political content and so on. But most allow to install Tor as a client and a hidden service. As long as the hosting company won't receive any abuse complaints and get money, they don't care what is running.

http://bj6sy3n7tbt3ot2f.onion/