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
If you don’t want anyone to be able to read it, don’t send it to anyone.
I need to send it to myself though, which means it must leave my computer