I have a small VPS running a few scripts and some personal projects without any private information (just the keys for the services needed).
I want to expand it to selfhost more stuff like Google photos alternative, knowledge DB, git, etc., but I’m not sure how is my data protected inside a VPS.
There was a post mentioning everything is visible to the provider via the hypervisor, so I was wondering if an encrypted volume would make no difference for protecting any data uploaded there.
Am I being too paranoid? Or should I be investing in a small physical server?
Any VPS provider worth their salt will have corporate clients with data far more valuable than a random person’s vacation photos. So they probably don’t want anything to do with that data unless it brings them legal trouble. Plus, not knowing can help shield them from all sorts of liabilities.