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It doesn't matter where the servers are hosted. There isn't a country, rack space provider, or bandwidth provider anywhere in the world that would willingly service a marketplace similar to SR. You could host it within the USA nearly just as safely as many other countries. Hosting it offshore only buys you a short amount of time that you wont even be aware of when the time comes after the servers location is found out by authorities. The key is making sure its location is not found to begin with and making sure data is secure in the event it is found.

This sums up my stance on the matter. There are 2 considerations which we are always keeping when choosing a place to host the forums and marketplace since they will always be separate for security reasons. The top issue is that of net side exploitation - can the server or any component of it be hacked in any way to expose user information or that information of the server. Failing that, the second step is to ensure that in the event the first step is breached, that data does not fall into the wrong hands so even if law enforcement or a hacker was to access our systems, all they would be able to collect is useless garbage of encrypted information. Rest assured we will not make the same mistakes the first Dread Pirate Roberts did, both for your interest and ours.

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Stickied.

The location of the servers is not something I will ever be confirming or denying. I have taken steps the previous Dread Pirate Roberts wouldn't have even thought of so you may rest assured, you are in the hands of a technically competent expert.

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