What do you expect from a Turkey-based hosting provider?
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Turkey ranks as “not free”, both in term of civil liberties and internet freedom.[0]
As a result, the most important question for me is: (how) will you protect your customers when they exercise their basic human rights or will you be a pro-active collaborator with the authoritarian regime?
Please don’t take this question personally - I admire everyone who has the guts to build a business and I wish you all the success! But a hosting provider is very much different from opening up a restaurant - it comes with a lot of power and ethical responsibilities.
[0] https://freedomhouse.org/country/turkey
As a result, the most important question for me is: (how) will you protect your customers when they exercise their basic human rights or will you be a pro-active collaborator with the authoritarian regime?
Please don’t take this question personally - I admire everyone who has the guts to build a business and I wish you all the success! But a hosting provider is very much different from opening up a restaurant - it comes with a lot of power and ethical responsibilities.
[0] https://freedomhouse.org/country/turkey
Thank you for raising this — it’s a fair and important question, and I appreciate the respectful tone.
From my perspective, trust and transparency are fundamental for any hosting provider, regardless of location. Our goal is to operate with clear policies that prioritize customer privacy, data security, and legal clarity.
Like any provider, we are required to operate within applicable laws and regulations, but we aim to minimize risk for users through technical and operational practices such as limiting data retention, avoiding unnecessary data collection, and being transparent about how requests are handled.
We believe infrastructure providers carry responsibility, and our intention is to build a service that respects users while maintaining operational integrity. This is one of the reasons I’m asking for community feedback — to understand expectations and concerns early on.
From my perspective, trust and transparency are fundamental for any hosting provider, regardless of location. Our goal is to operate with clear policies that prioritize customer privacy, data security, and legal clarity.
Like any provider, we are required to operate within applicable laws and regulations, but we aim to minimize risk for users through technical and operational practices such as limiting data retention, avoiding unnecessary data collection, and being transparent about how requests are handled.
We believe infrastructure providers carry responsibility, and our intention is to build a service that respects users while maintaining operational integrity. This is one of the reasons I’m asking for community feedback — to understand expectations and concerns early on.
Security is the big thing for me. Anything non-trivial requires me to trust you are not snooping on any compute I’m performing on your platform. Solving this for your users in a proper way is difficult. Recently 3mbed has developed open source firmware for a Gigabyte server supporting AMD-SEV. If your service can leverage this technology to provide confidential compute in an affordable way then, assuming your network connectivity is good, you’ll have a really compelling offering.
Doing this is not easy and will require excellent technical expertise, but it is doable, and will be a big one up over 2nd tier cloud operators.
Good luck. I look forward to being a future customer of yours.
Doing this is not easy and will require excellent technical expertise, but it is doable, and will be a big one up over 2nd tier cloud operators.
Good luck. I look forward to being a future customer of yours.
I should add some references for ideas:
- https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/LKWQL7-open_source_fi...
- https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/LLKG3M-full_disk_encr...
- https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/LKWQL7-open_source_fi...
- https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/LLKG3M-full_disk_encr...
I’m currently working on building a hosting and VPS infrastructure based in Turkey, targeting global users who are looking for cost-efficient but reliable alternatives.
Before officially launching, I would genuinely like to understand what developers, sysadmins, and infrastructure users would expect from a provider operating from this region.
Some things I’m especially curious about:
Network performance expectations (EU / Asia routing)
Pricing vs reliability balance
Support expectations
Transparency and trust factors
Features or pain points you feel current providers don’t solve well
This is not meant as promotion — I’m mainly looking for honest feedback and real-world expectations from the community to help shape the service in a better way.
Thanks