Where the term comes from
“Bulletproof” was coined for hosts that stayed up under any pressure at all: complaints, carrier warnings, law enforcement contact, court process. In practice the label attached to operations whose business was the last item on that list, and it has carried that association ever since.
The two things being confused
| Bulletproof, as sold | Offshore, as practised here | |
|---|---|---|
| A complaint email | Discarded, silently | Forwarded to you in full, complainant named, fourteen days to answer |
| A court order with jurisdiction | Also discarded | Answered |
| Content refused | In principle, nothing | Two categories, absolutely, and the list does not grow |
| Who you contract with | Often unclear | A named company per jurisdiction, listed in the terms |
| What is published | Nothing checkable | Transparency figures by quarter, a signed canary, the record inventory |
The difference in the first row is the product. The difference in the second row is the reason this is a business somebody can rely on for years rather than months.
Why refusing everything is worse for you
A host that ignores court orders is a host whose upstream carriers eventually stop answering the phone, whose IP ranges collect reputation damage that lands on every customer sharing them, and whose hardware is at risk of being seized rather than served. Nothing about that is durable, and none of it is discriminating: it takes your lawful project down with everything else in the rack.
What you are actually buying
Not immunity. A jurisdiction where the route to your content runs through a judge rather than through a form, a counterparty that tells you when somebody walks it, and a published record of how often anybody has. If that is what was meant by bulletproof, this is it. If the other thing was meant, this is not, and it is better to find that out on a guide page than after paying.
Questions people actually ask
Is DediPrivacy a bulletproof host?
No. Court orders with jurisdiction are answered, and two content categories are refused outright. What is refused is the idea that a complaint email is a court.
So what is actually different from a normal host?
A takedown notice does not remove anything, you are told about every complaint with the complainant named, no identity document is ever collected, and settlement is on-chain only. Those are the differences, and each is published rather than implied.
Is bulletproof hosting illegal?
The hosting is not; ignoring a lawful order of a court that has jurisdiction over you is a different matter, and it is why this estate does not do it.
Every price on this estate is published in full, in one place. See the whole catalogue