Add skhron.eu

[g00g1]

Type

Addition

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Changes

Added Skhron as another privacy honoring hosting provider. Current list is focused on a very small list of options.

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Supporting Material

• Skhron has Tor mirror for all customer-facing portals (billing, virtual machine management panel, etc)
• Skhron accepts all cryptocurrencies using self-hosted gateways (BTCPay Server and Bitcart)
• Skhron has a good history of customers' review (a few links available at https://skhron.eu/about-us page)
• Terms of Service: https://skhron.eu/legal/terms-of-service
• Privacy Policy: https://skhron.eu/legal/privacy-policy

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Affiliation

• I am founder of Skhron

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Checklist

• I have read the Contributing guide, and confirmed my PR aligns with the requirements
• I have performed a self-review (valid Markdown formatting, spelling, and grammar)
• I have indicated whether I have any affiliation with any software / services added
• I agree to follow the repositories Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct

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Summary of Changes:

• Added Skhron in Networking → Cloud Hosting

Submission Info

Website Checks

• 🟢 Status: 200
• 🟢 HTTPS: Yes
• 🟢 Blacklist: Not listed
• 🟢 Redirect: None
• 🟢 Risk Score: 0
• 🔴 HSTS: Missing
• 🔴 CSP: Missing
• 🔴 X-Frame-Options: Missing
• ⚪ Security.txt: Unknown
• 🔵 Server: 195.201.247.11, AS24940
• 🔵 Server Location: Falkenstein, Sachsen, Germany
• 🔵 Title: Privacy-First KVM VPS Hosting in Europe – Skhron

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[lissy93]

Thanks @g00g1

While I've not looked into it beyond opening the privacy policy (https://skhron.eu/legal/privacy-policy), I guess that some of the sections are a bit worrying, like:

Operator may use third-party service providers to serve advertisements on our behalf across the Internet. These service providers may collect your IP address and non-personally identifiable or de-identified information about your visits to the Site in order to serve Operators' advertisements, while you are visiting other sites. Such non-personally identifiable information is anonymous or de-identified and does not reflect your name, address, e-mail address or other personal information; however, your IP address may be collected by such service providers.

and

Operator may use Site Information to market their Services in a more proficient way

Even if it just says "may", I don't think that a provider which hands visitors' IP addresses to external ad networks so they can be tracked across other websites is inline with a service we want to promote

[g00g1]

@lissy93 it was meant that we may use e.g. Google Adsense and these could collect data on other websites about clicks, not about our website having any kind of telemetry.

[lissy93]

Thanks for confirming - I checked too and hadn't seen GTM/AdSense loaded on the site. Just curious why you reserved the right to track and share, if no tracking is happening on your end once user lands on your site?

I did check too, and no google adsense/GTM loaded (that i saw). But it was fetching font assets from Google APIs, and calling google maps API (?).

I did try to sign up, but I am curious - since XMR is listed as a payment option, why do you need to give full address and phone number to create an account?

Only other small thing, was I couldn't find security policy, or security.txt or any info on security or reporting methods.

That was the only failure from https://web-check.xyz/check/skhron.eu too, both screenshots below for reference:

But other than that, all looks good to me :)

[lissy93]

Pushback is on the "No KYC required" part, since https://skhron.com.ua/register.php does ask for full name, address, phone number, email, etc.

[g00g1]

Unfortunately, our current billing engine (WHMCS) is not flexible enough to be able to provide different experience for more anonymous signups and more normie ones using e.g. Stripe.

This is planned to change and we are working on a NoJS billing from scratch to be able to better cover privacy expectations. Currently, only skhron.eu landing is accessible and usable with the most strict constraints - NoJS-friendly and absolutely none resources are loaded from external sources.

As for pushback on "No KYC" - it is not something we enforce or check. Signups with "aaa aaa" as a first name is completely legitimate. The only enforced and verified thing is email address - unfortunately, temporary mail customers were too frequent abusers and therefore were forbidden.