Staying anonymous has many positive effects on your safety and well-being online. Splitting real life from the digital world disallows people to track you down or find any of your info.
Firstly, what does it mean to be anonymous? This is the act of masking or hiding your true identity online in order to keep your personal life private and separate from your online persona. There are numerous benefits to being anonymous, but arguably there are even more benefits to being anonymous when signing up to hosting websites or large firms that have the power to exploit you for information. And nonetheless it speeds up the sign-up process when purchasing a server, without needing you to input much else than necessary information to access your account via our Panel.
Now you might be wondering… how do you stay anonymous? This entire blog will show and tell how you can stay private, and the benefits that come along with each method.
Protection of Personal and Private details
Signing up or hosting game servers usually involves handling sensitive personal information, such as any of your usernames, email addresses, IP addresses, and payment details. Although most of these may not be harmful to give up during the sign-up process, with priority in privacy, we prevent any unauthorized access, data breaches, and identity theft by keeping your data encrypted. Many regions also have strict data protection regulations, such as the GDPR in the EU, or the CCPA in California, that require firms and companies to safeguard user data anyway, meaning by prioritizing this privacy, it ensures compliance, avoiding costly fines and legal complications.
Mitigating Security Threats
Game servers are can sometimes be the target for DDoS attacks (Distributed Denial of Service) or hacking attempts. With a priority in privacy and anonymity, clients can rely on their hosting service as their details are not in any sort of danger and cannot be exploited during the attempts of a DDoS strike or while a hacker attempts to breach any firewall to gain access to your data. Related to this, any hackers in your servers may also find it much harder to access any server-sided data which would give them an unfair advantage, mitigating this results in a much more fair and enjoyable experience for your players.
Control Over Game Data and Content
Many clients tend to develop custom content for games such as mods, skins, maps, plugins, mods, and whatever more. Working alongside an anonymous hosting service can help you protect this intellectual property from unauthorized use or theft, keeping it safe with only authorized individuals having access to it. Any users that you add to your panel, friends, family, or whomever, you can set their permissions to be slightly altered than the ones you possess as the client. You can hide access to the files in order to protect your property from a potential threat of theft.
Freedom from any Unwanted Surveillance or Data monetization
As mentioned within the intro of this article, some hosting services may exploit you for information you give them. This usually just allows them to make a quick extra buck by selling your data to whomever is in need for it, this can be marketing or other purposes. By choosing anonymous hosting services, you, as the client, are safe with your or your players’ data, as you will not be exploited for any sort of this information.
Strengthening your Community’s Safety
Game servers are also often hubs for player communities, meaning you may end up being the target of harassment, doxxing, and other forms of digital abuse. By staying anonymous as a client or overall, you are fostering a safer and more welcoming environment. And since you are also in full control of your server, you are able to monitor or control your community channels throughout your games, meaning you can promote a peaceful chat by reducing the risk of spam, phishing attempts, or any other sort of harmful content that might try to crawl into your server.
In summary, with your focus gauging more towards anonymity and privacy when hosting your game servers, you are actively protecting your server from any unwanted attention. All this while building trust with your hosting provider and players to create a positive and safe gaming environment, leading to a higher player satisfaction rate and long-term retention, which can help boost your server’s popularity for being a safe haven, and your hosting provider’s reliability and recognition.
