Hosting use cases
Provider recommendations organized by who you are and what you're trying to defend against. Each page lays out the threat model, the architecture, and the specific providers from this directory that fit.
- Independent journalists, investigative reporters, newsroom IT
Hosting for journalists and source-protection (2026)
How journalists, investigative reporters and small newsroom IT teams should set up infrastructure to protect sources, weather DMCA spam, and survive deplatforming. Recommended providers, jurisdictions and operational practices.
- Civil-society organizers, protest movements, NGOs, advocacy groups
Hosting for activist infrastructure (2026)
Infrastructure recommendations for activist groups: protest websites, mobilization platforms, secure mailing lists, community Mastodon instances. Provider picks for groups facing state pressure, deplatforming and DMCA-style speech suppression.
- Whistleblowing platform operators, ethics-hotline NGOs, leaks-receiving newsrooms
Hosting for whistleblowing platforms (2026)
How to architect infrastructure for a whistleblowing platform: SecureDrop deployment patterns, jurisdictional choice, source-anonymity threat model and operator-side recommendations. Provider picks for the publishing layer and the source-intake layer.
- Independent adult creators, adult site operators, adult-tube administrators
Hosting for adult content sites (2026)
Where legal adult content can be hosted in 2026 without auto-deplatforming, the bandwidth and DMCA realities, payment-processor considerations, and recommended providers by content category.
- DeFi protocol operators, NFT platforms, crypto media, decentralized application teams
Hosting for crypto / Web3 projects (2026)
Crypto and Web3 projects need infrastructure that accepts crypto payment, tolerates regulatory uncertainty, and survives the regular waves of jurisdiction-specific enforcement actions. Provider picks for front-end hosting, RPC endpoints, indexers, and developer infrastructure.