Where is a good place to host

[lovingboth]

... a website that would be legal but unpopular with some people?

The commercial company that also hosted the UK's main safety site for escorts has pulled the plug, again. This time, it looks permanent.

It's clear to me that a) there needs to be one such site - splitting safety info over numerous feuding sites helps no-one except the rip-off merchants, the robbers and the rapists and b) safety info is too important to be left in the hands of those with sometimes competing commercial interests.

I would love to be proved wrong, but I suspect that any such site that did start up would be subject to various denial of service attacks from people with varying reasons for not wanting it to succeed.

Where would be a good place to host such a site? Somewhere inexpensive, but capable of keeping it up...

Comments

[vampwillow]

depends on what the *actual* content will be (as opposed to presumed content), ie. if no actual sex-related pictures, etc. then shouldn't be a big issue to get it hosted at one of the main-and-good hosting companies in the USA who have so much multi-peering going on that DDOS just doesn't do a damn thing ...

[lovingboth]

It's UK legal, but Americans have some silly laws around prostitution and I'm not convinced it wouldn't be seen as pandering or similar there.

The carrot to get people to use it would be the ability to use it as a free advertising space, for example.

Even without that aspect, I can see US hosts being nervous.

[misspotsitt.livejournal.com]

Yes the US have recently bought in some new laws about pornography and such like. Any picture on tribe.net that was considered 'adult' had to be removed recently. It caused a lot of havoc on the bellydance tribes which had pitures of 1950s and 60s dancers in the album as a lot of them wore pasties rather than bras and so those photos were considered 'adult' and the communities were recatagorised and threatened with becoming closed unless they were removed.

[foibey.livejournal.com]

There are lots of political websites which offer official or unofficial hosting and would be more likely to stand firm against legal and packet assaults.

libcom.org (http://www.libcom.org/hosted/index.php) hosts a couple of things. Riseup.net (http://www.riseup.net) has apparently started hosting websites again. Those are both anarcho-focused examples and I can understand if that's not really appropriate for what you want though. LibCom would probably be quite happy to support a sex worker advisory project.

[foibey.livejournal.com]

PS: I don't take part in running LibCom.org so what I say and what they say is 2 different things. However presuming the group you're talking about doesn't think that the authoritarian state is wonderful they'll probably be supportive.

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

http://www.xs4all.nl/ ?

[karen2205]

I'd say go and talk to http://www.blackcatnetworks.co.uk and see if they're interested. They're sufficiently small that they're normally able to be flexible about things that larger ISPs aren't. They won't be the cheapest, but also aren't the most expensive.

[amuletts.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure dreamhost is okay with adult content. In their terms and conditions they basically disclaim anything anyone uploads to their site.