Arbitrage-Resilient Hostings for 2024

The work of an arbitrator is often ambiguous in terms of legality and morality. In the days of the glorious Golden Age of piracy, they would have had every chance of dangling from a yardarm somewhere near Cape Lopez.

Therefore, arbitrators, in order to avoid exposing their landings with grey offers, are forced to look for not only anonymous but also abuse-resistant hosting. With such hosts, the likelihood of a site/landing/pre-landing being removed from hosting due to user complaints and claims to the provider can be minimized. In this article, we will discuss why abuse-resistant hosting is so in demand in affiliate marketing, as well as provide a list of verified hosting services.

What is abuse-resistant hosting

The concept of "abuse-resistant hosting" implies resistance to "abuses" (from English "abuse" - complaint) of users regarding the content of the sites hosted on it.

The reasons for such complaints may include the distribution of pornography, intrusive advertising, promotion of betting and gambling offers without a local license, distribution of malware, pirate content, as well as signs of black SEO.

Comparing abuse-resistant and standard hosting, in the case of the latter, the provider-host receiving a complaint about a site is obliged to investigate it, and if information about violations is confirmed, to contact the site owner with a request to remove the objectionable content. If the site owner ignores the host's request, the provider reserves the right to forcibly remove the site from the server. Additionally, such a site may be subject to inspection by law enforcement agencies at the initiative of the provider.

By hosting sites or landings on abuse-resistant hosts, which can afford not to respond to user complaints, a webmaster or arbitrator can be sure that their web resource will not be blocked for violations described earlier.

The servers of abuse-resistant hosts are traditionally located in countries where such content is permitted or not subject to strict legislative prohibitions. For example, these are Panama, Malaysia, China, and in some cases, the Netherlands. However, since such verified and reliable hosting providers are rare, and there is considerable demand for them, the cost of renting server space is significantly higher than that of ordinary providers. Often the price can be x10 times higher than the standard cost.

Purposes for which hosting from anonymous providers can be used?

Abuse-resistant hosting can confidently be used in affiliate marketing in grey niches. This applies not only to paid promotion but also to SEO projects through which offers indirectly or directly violating the laws of certain geo-locations are promoted. On such hosting, arbitrators place sites and landings with "strawberries" for adults, as well as online casinos, crypto projects without a local license.

In essence, on anonymous hosting, sites of any topic can be hosted, but even such providers will not risk their business if the site has obvious signs of crime and violations of moral and ethical norms. For example, providers from European countries may delete a site if its pages contain calls for terrorist activities, child pornography, signs of selling narcotics and precursors, etc.

Moreover, abuse-resistant hosting, due to its high level of protection against DDoS attacks, wide access channels, and the ability to accept practically unlimited traffic, is quite in demand among website owners in white niches.

Which abuse-resistant hostings are suitable for traffic arbitration

For traffic arbitration in grey niches, it is worth choosing anonymous abuse-resistant servers that meet at least 70% of the following requirements:

• Presence of a large number of servers in different countries;
• Anonymity (ideally, the domain registrar should also be abuse-resistant, and the arbitrator should have the ability to substitute IPs and domains, while hiding the main domain);
• High resistance indicators to complaints from users;
• Loyalty to sites with 18+ content and gambling, dietary supplements;
• Ability for quick frontend server setup;
• Possibility of renting a dedicated server if necessary;
• Round-the-clock technical support;
• High uptime percentage of hosting (ability to keep the site running even during technical maintenance).

The last point is especially relevant since, with active advertising campaigns and a non-working landing, the arbitrator will waste their budget in vain.

Compilation of abuse-resistant anonymous hostings

Below is a small list of abuse-resistant hostings that webmasters speak highly of

• PQ.hosting
• ProHoster.info
• Zomro
• AbeloHost
• WebAnchor