What does my hosting provider know about me?

Question

Information Security

Hello.

Some hosting providers prohibit registering through a proxy, some ask you to provide identification documents after registration, some call and activate your account after answering some questions, etc. etc. However, this is all in fairly rare cases, and in most cases you can not even indicate your full name and use the services, but there are several questions about this.

Do hostings connect to the same Internet channel as home users (the difference is only in power)?
Having installed the VPN on your server, the execution scenario is as follows - Browser -> (encrypted) -> VPN Server -> (open) -> Website. Hence the question, is the channel logged from hosting providers? It turns out that if the logs go to the same SORM, then being in Russia and using a Russian VPN, in fact, all the data will be in one place?

Answer 1

sorm is mostly bullshit and all hosters
have it, it’s more like it’s customary for us to receive data by putting a soldering iron in the ass
, that is, in Russia I’m never afraid of sorm, since I worked in telecom, but I’m afraid of a soldering iron

Answer 2

You can track the payment if you mess up a lot.

Answer 3

option a) payment with bitcoins through a tor-client and other paranoid "jokes", if the hoster allows, basically - the option that you are non-critical-shortly-anonymous - without the option of normal support for your problems - you will not be able to identify as the owner "we will not we know, figure it out for yourself"
option b) passport, mobile phone number, email, two-factor authorization, any request from the contact mail to the host must be processed, non-service by the host is fraught with a refund / court, etc.
It all depends on what you need.
In general, only logs of requests to the site are logged in order for fail2ban to work and attempts to enter the hoster's panel, collecting traffic is not the hoster's concern.
and yes - here I have, on average, on each hosting server - a couple of thousand sites - the minimum access.log log file is a megabyte, some have a hundred meters per day - and a couple of hundred client requests per hour - do you think I will follow you?