On a VPS, full disk encryption is not effective because the keys can be dumped from the hypervisor.
Re:Helm: Personal Email Server
by gsreenivas on Thursday October 18, 2018 @05:53PM
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Not to mention having to wake up in the middle of the night when the VPS provider decides to reboot your VM so you can decrypt the volume on boot. Been there, done that for years.
Re:Helm: Personal Email Server
by jiveturkey on Thursday October 25, 2018 @05:04PM
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not a problem for SMTP, which is store-and-forward.
Major providers like Gmail and ICloud will have a longer and more convoluted process to provide your data to state actors, but analysing that data is going to be far easier since it will come in a standard format.
If your goal is to make your data difficult to seize, a better option is probably to self-host on either a cheap VPS or a corporate-grade cloud service. That keeps the data out of reach of a warrant on your home, and keeps it unreadable after they've actually jumped through the hoops to seize it from your provider.