🆕 Software Suggestion | Vikings Hosting #1293

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2019-09-10T22:18:02Z

RunOpenBSD885 commented

2019-09-10 22:18:02 +00:00

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Basic Information

Name: Vikings
Category: Enterprise Hosting
URL: https://vikings.net/
Provider's Focus: Free/Libre Hardware and Enterprise Level Hosting
Hosting Signup: Email Only [Sep 2019]

Description

Vikings is probably the only hosting provider to use Libreboot and gain mostly-widespread support in the free/libre software community. Much of their hardware is supported by the FSF:
https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/endorsement/vikings

From a security and privacy standpoint I am unaware of any hardware manufacturer to come close to promoting free/libre and privacy respecting techniques except possibly Raptor Computing Services which does not offer any hosting services as of Sep 2019:
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/interested-in-a-powerful-free-software-friendly-workstation

Where to put Vikings?

This thread originally came from the discussion to replace DataCell with Vikings.

https://forum.privacytools.io/t/replace-datacell-with-vikings/1570

Unlike most of the other listed providers, Vikings is not yet accepting low-usage consumers.
However, they do sponsor many projects like Peers.

## Basic Information **Name**: Vikings **Category**: Enterprise Hosting **URL**: https://vikings.net/ **Provider's Focus**: Free/Libre Hardware and Enterprise Level Hosting **Hosting Signup**: Email Only [[Sep 2019](https://store.vikings.net/index.php?route=information/information&information_id=9)] ## Description Vikings is probably the only hosting provider to use Libreboot and gain mostly-widespread support in the free/libre software community. Much of their hardware is supported by the FSF: https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/endorsement/vikings From a security and privacy standpoint I am unaware of any hardware manufacturer to come close to promoting free/libre and privacy respecting techniques except possibly [Raptor Computing Services](https://www.raptorcs.com/) which does not offer any hosting services as of Sep 2019: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/interested-in-a-powerful-free-software-friendly-workstation _____________________________________ __________________________________ ### Where to put Vikings? This thread originally came from the discussion to replace DataCell with Vikings. - https://forum.privacytools.io/t/replace-datacell-with-vikings/1570 Unlike most of the other listed providers, Vikings is not yet accepting low-usage consumers. However, they do sponsor many projects like [Peers](https://peers.community/).

ghost commented

2020-03-08 10:00:48 +00:00

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vikings.net does not support IPv6. Not good

Mikaela commented

2020-03-10 08:50:17 +00:00

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I am unable to find any details on their hosting or where I would get it. They also advertise their short keyid on the frontpage without mentioning the fingerprint which is a bad practice and they don't specify keyserver to use which may lead to a flooded certificate if SKS keyservers are used (and the key is not on keys.openpgp.org at time of writing).

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