10 guides · 5 categories
Guides
These are the pages we are most confident about. They answer the question rather than routing you to a product, and several of them will tell you not to buy the expensive option.
Answer
Incognito VPS publishes 10 long-form guides covering jurisdiction selection, server hardening, remote full-disk encryption, cryptocurrency payment, DDoS mitigation, warrant canaries and what happens when a server is seized.
Jurisdiction & law
Choosing an offshore jurisdiction
A decision framework built from threat model rather than marketing. Which legal instruments matter, which are noise, and which country actually fits.
Read the guideWarrant canaries explained
How a canary works, why the legal theory behind it is contested, how to verify ours, and what a missing canary should and should not make you do.
Read the guideWhen a server is seized
The realistic sequence of events, what a provider can and cannot tell you, what is recoverable, and how to build so that a seizure is survivable.
Read the guideSecurity
Hardening a new VPS
The ordered checklist that removes almost all real-world risk from a fresh server: keys, firewall, kernel, updates, and what to skip.
Read the guideEncrypting a remote server disk
LUKS2 on a machine you cannot physically touch: how to unlock at boot without storing the key on the server, and what encryption does and does not protect.
Read the guideOperations
VPS vs dedicated server
Where the crossover actually sits in 2026, which workloads are hurt by virtualisation, and why the answer is usually a VPS for longer than people think.
Read the guideMigrating between jurisdictions
Moving a live workload from one country to another with minimal downtime: DNS strategy, data sync, cutover order and what to do about the old disk.
Read the guidePayment
Networking
IPv6 and address reputation
Why a routed /64 matters, how reverse DNS works for IPv6, what determines whether an address range is trusted, and how to keep yours clean.
Read the guideDDoS protection explained
What L3/L4 scrubbing does, why layer-7 attacks need something different, what a Tbps figure actually measures, and when you need more than the default.
Read the guide55-second deploy
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