RareCloud privacy rating

Summary

RareCloud scores 33 out of 100 (grade F) on the server hosting criteria. It meets 4 of 12 criteria: TLS configuration, mail-friendly (port 25), IPv6 and anonymous payment. It partly meets no ads or data sales and Reverse DNS. It does not meet open source, no trackers or telemetry, independent audit, transparency report, tells users about requests and security headers. It is based in Romania: Not in the Five, Nine or Fourteen Eyes; EU member (GDPR). Automated tests: SSL Labs grade A and Mozilla HTTP Observatory grade C.

Score 33 out of 100. How scoring works

Criteria

• ✖No

  Open source ×3Weight 3 of 3

  Is all the source code needed to run the product public?

  Closed source.

• ✖No

  No trackers or telemetry ×3Weight 3 of 3

  Are the website and apps free of third-party trackers, with any analytics anonymous and any telemetry off by default?

  The cookie policy lists Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics, Meta Pixel, Google Ads and Tawk.to.

  rarecloud.io

• ◐Partial

  No ads or data sales ×2Weight 2 of 3

  Is the product funded without advertising, ad targeting or selling user data?

  Funded by paid hosting; Meta and Google remarketing cookies are set only with consent.

  rarecloud.io

• ✖No

  Independent audit ×2Weight 2 of 3

  Has an independent security or privacy audit been published within the last three years?

  No independent audit is published.

• ✖No

  Transparency report ×2Weight 2 of 3

  Does the provider regularly publish how many government and legal requests it receives and how it responds?

  No transparency report or government request policy is published.

• ✖No

  Tells users about requests ×1Weight 1 of 3

  Does the provider promise to tell users about requests for their data, unless a court forbids it?

  No published policy on notifying users about data requests.

• ✔Yes

  Mail-friendly (port 25) ×1Weight 1 of 3

  Is outbound port 25 open by default, or opened on request?

  Open by default.

  github.com

• ◐Partial

  Reverse DNS ×1Weight 1 of 3

  Can reverse DNS (PTR) records be set for IPv4 and IPv6?

  PTR records can be set through the API for a cloud VM's primary IPv4 address only.

  console.rarecloud.io

• ✔Yes

  IPv6 ×1Weight 1 of 3

  Is native IPv6 included?

  github.com

• ✔Yes

  Anonymous payment ×1Weight 1 of 3

  Can servers be paid for with cryptocurrency or without identity checks?

  Cryptocurrency payment is accepted.

  console.rarecloud.io

Automated tests

• ✔Yes

  TLS configuration ×2Weight 2 of 3

  Does the website pass the Qualys SSL Labs test with a grade of A or better?

  Grade A

  ssllabs.com

• ✖No

  Security headers ×1Weight 1 of 3

  Does the website pass the Mozilla HTTP Observatory test with a grade of A or better?

  Grade C (55/100+)

  developer.mozilla.org

• …Not tested yet

  Modern web standards ×1Weight 1 of 3

  Does the website score 90% or higher on the Internet.nl website test?

  Not tested yet.