On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 07:16:17PM +0100, Jaroslaw Rafa via mailop wrote: > Dnia 25.02.2021 o godz. 08:48:01 John Capo via mailop pisze: > > Vultr.com blocks port 25 until you prove who you are and provide a credit > > card. A good policy IMHO. > How can you buy a VPS at all without proving who you are? It's a legal > contract - each party of this contract must know the other, so the company > you are buying the VPS from must know who you are.
I don't think you are required to check who your customer is - as long as you get the money on time (and the sender of any payments matches the data provided), you might not care too much. I believe the one thing where you have to do some basic checks (at least in the EU) is when it comes to VAT - so you charge the correct amount of VAT based on the customer's location (but even there I think it's sufficient that the location information from the IP address matches the data provided by the customer). > When I was buying my VPS at OVH, they required me to present a scan of my ID. I guess there are costs involved for the provider as well - at least to get the data protection policies properly in place to be able to handle such sensitive data as ID scans with the potential of heavy fines if there is a data breach. And some customers might not be comfortable handing over an ID scan for such basic services as providing a VPS - and go to the competition instead. Christof -- http://cmeerw.org sip:cmeerw at cmeerw.org mailto:cmeerw at cmeerw.org xmpp:cmeerw at cmeerw.org _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
