Can the vps provider not read everything on your server, unless it’s explicitly encrypted?

I’m asking because I’m interested in self-hosting mainly as a way to get privacy respecting services where good hosted ones don’t exist. I’m not sure I really want to deal with running my own hardware

  • morrowindOP
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    1 day ago

    I don’t have an explicit threat model beyond “I don’t want anyone able to read my stuff”. It just makes me uncomfortable and I find myself limiting what I’m able to put down. I’ll trust a provider or service if I must, but generally I just prefer things to be E2E and not worry about it

    • catloaf@lemm.ee
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      21 hours ago

      If you don’t want anyone to be able to read it, don’t send it to anyone.

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        19 hours ago

        I need to send it to myself though, which means it must leave my computer