Does the hoster see what is happening on the vds?

Question

linux

Hello, I have such a question, does the hoster see what exactly I do on vps? For example, on hosting it is forbidden by the rules to install a proxy server on vps, and I will take it and install it, will the hoster understand that I have installed a proxy and use it and ban me? Or until I myself tell what I'm doing, no one will know anything?

Answer 1

Do not do anything illegal and do not be impudent - and no one will be interested.
Including the host.

Answer 2

Yes and no.
1. In our country, it is FORBIDDEN to create telematic networks that are NOT eavesdropped! so to the question of whether they listen to you, yes, another development option is prohibited in our country, you will not even receive a license to provide such services.
2. In reality.
Yes, your provider listens to your traffic, but if it's via https, of course, it doesn't see anything in it.
Yes, and he will not particularly look, it's just not commercially interesting.
But indirect indicators such as traffic consumption, increased processor overload (if it is a VPS), and so on, he already needs indirect things to track downtimes in the network, and they can pay attention to this.
Nobody will do anything with your proxy.

Answer 3

Once, at work, I needed to proxy some serious amount of traffic through vds. First I did it on haproxy - soon a warning arrived that the proxy (specifically, the haproxy process was specified) was prohibited by the rules. Changed to nginx - lived longer. As a result, I found out on what volume of traffic the shooting works, and made several virtual machines (n + 1) with a balancer.
For personal purposes, I have been using proxying through vds for many years, and in any way, I had both squid and dante - there were no complaints about the proxy from the hoster.
Conclusion: you will not be touched if you do not break the law (for example, by distributing torrents), and do not create an excessive load that does not correspond to the profit you bring (clogging the channel of a penny virtual machine by 100%).

Answer 4

Of course he sees :) That's naive.
In fact, it is not a proxy that is prohibited, but proxying and clogging upstream from the hoster by distributing torrents and other hats. I have a proxy in Zabugoria on a VPS - when I installed squid there - not a single dog yelled that I was breaking any rules - probably because the proxy has exactly one user :)

Answer 5

In which country? :)
In Ukraine - no, it is not monitored.
Neither Internet client traffic, nor server traffic in DCs, nor virtual machine traffic.
But the SBU can ask (in writing, with its own equipment) to mirror the traffic from the client port of the switch, and then they watch it themselves. But I only saw this once, and xs, did it succeed.
What the client does inside the virtual machine, or on his server, is his own business. As long as it doesn't violate the terms of the contract.

Answer 6

Under the rights of the root, the hoster sees everything.