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If you "ordered a Debian VM" you got a Debian VM. The option you needed to order was "BYO ISO".
Given how popular FreeBSD has become, Binary Lane also now have an option for FreeBSD 12.
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There's a big incentive for these companies to support BSD (and FreeBSD in particular). Lots of commercial virtual appliances for NetScaler and NetApp for example are based on FreeBSD. So if you can make FreeBSD work it's very likely you can support those virtual appliances too.
If you can load a ISO image you'll also have to connect to a terminal while installing - and so far I haven't seen a remote login to a boot screen. But if you're able to upload and boot a ISO image the hosters I've seen provide a web frontend or VNC server for that case.
Yes, cloud VM but not VPS. IIRC, these offers are restricted in traffic volume, storage & CPU time. But enough for a personal project. Of course you can forget about privacy, because the hoster can easily do a man-in-the-middle crack. If you want privacy, have a look at posteo.de (any top level domain ending available) & mailbox.org.
I fully agree with this statement of the question...
To the best of my financial ability, I am ready to do this..
At least they (FBSD Foundation) managed to be able to do that. E.g. the KDE foundation or The Document Foundation TDF (under german law) can not do that... :/
They're not really anonymous, though, because you can only pay by credit card, SEPA transfer or similar. It would be a different story if they accepted anonymous payment, for example PaySafeCard (you can get these anonymously at Aldi or Saturn, for example).
No, that's not true. They do more than accepting anonymous payment. In fact, you can pay cash (or sent a courier) & they do not have any connection in their papers & system's setup between your account and your payment. Or you can give s/o else the money in cash and s/he can pay by bank transfer, credit card etc.pp.
Well, it probably depends on what level of anonymity you need. For higher requirements, anonymous digital payment like paysafecard is the way to go. Tracking it down is very difficult, close to impossible. It can only be used for paying small amounts, of course, but that shouldn’t be a problem for a mail provider who charges just a few €.
Fingerprints? I take the cab driver to a shop, I buy s/th, let him take the odd money & send him to pay for me in cash. On the 2nd topic: unfortunately, they are after us all... Why is Edward Snowden in Russia? There are numerous other news (or so-called fake news, depends on your mindset) about topics like this. Plus it's commonly known what the business model of so-called social media companies & Giggle is.
I'm dialing in via WWAN, all I had to do is change the modem module & get another prepaid SIM card, e.g. from s/o who gives it to me and when he's asked says it's lost. In case of a military coup d'état I would steal one.
No. I'd say it's closely related to the topic of this thread. Why do some people want a VPS? They want privacy and/or anonymity, therefore they set up services like tor(1) on these VMs.
You're forgetting the IMEI number of the phone.
To run my services on the internet with a provider that can give me 99.999% uptime guarantees. And I don't have to spend an arm and a leg buying and maintaining the required hardware.
Not sure about German laws but in the Netherlands you're registered and your IP plus identity is sent to a government agency (CIOT; sorry Dutch only). No provider will openly admit this but they're bound by law to do this (I've worked for a couple of hosting providers).
