[capableweb]

There are hosting providers you don't need to give out your real identity to use and would fight any attempts of getting the details they do have on you, to law enforcement or others.

Obviously if you want to protect your identity, you need to do that at every level, if you're hosting your VPN somewhere, that includes from the platform you're hosting your VPN at.

[rovr138]

Since someone already answered the second part, I'll take the first,

>There are hosting providers you don't need to give out your real identity to use

Even if you don't give them your real identity, they have access to the IP address you are connecting from which to a big enough adversary is enough to identify you.

[capableweb]

Not necessarily. First not all providers store IP addresses and secondly you can always hide your IP, via multiple hops if you need to. Otherwise there are hosting providers you can sign up to in person, while being masked if needed, and there wouldn't be any IP traces then.

[hmage]

> and would fight any attempts of getting the details they do have on you

That sounds like one of those things that original article says "can never be verified". Correct me if I'm wrong.

[capableweb]

You can definitely verify this by looking at court orders and more regarding the company in question.