Physically moving sever?

[hireshi]

Currently my website's host is an Indian company, who's owner I've become close to in the past year. 
If the incidence should occur that they are forced to shut me down or hand me over he will give me a day to backup my data and terminate the server.


The company I use is known to use loopholes and bribery to stay out of trouble as they're located in a rural part of India.


I wanted to increase the security of my website though, I can not control what information about users, the users leak themselves. But I want to control whatever is on the server.

Is it possible for me to buy my own server, and physically move it monthly between two countries, or would that be a huge pain in the ass (in terms of the users).
The only person with access to the users e-mails and activity is me and I never gave a shit about the copyright mafia, there's nothing that would make me hand over my server info if I was in possession of it.

[Moe]

It is very easy to move data, provided you have shell access or FTP access at the very least.

But I wouldn't be waiting for when the day comes to start doing that. You should already be making regular backups that you can use to restore your site anywhere anytime.

You really want to try to automate that as much as possible so once you set it up, you don't need to think about it anymore.

[hireshi]

It is very easy to move data, provided you have shell access or FTP access at the very least.

But I wouldn't be waiting for when the day comes to start doing that.  You should already be making regular backups that you can use to restore your site anywhere anytime.

You really want to try to automate that as much as possible so once you set it up, you don't need to think about it anymore.

The current server does biweekly backups of the entire website, I download it to an external harddrive once a month. My site isn't too big so I see no security reason to do it more often.

I was thinking about keeping the site on one server and move that server from one country to another physically as I move myself, never having it in the same place for more than 6 months.
I am not sure what to use as a backup server though, as I need a place for it to be online while I move my own server

[Moe]

Frequent backups aren't an issue of size.  It is about how much recent activity you are willing to lose given an unrecoverable event.

Physically relocating a server depends on how willing you are to travel or pay for shipping to get it to the nearest datacenter that caters to individuals and has terms of service that permit the content and services you are hosting.  Co-locating a server does mean you are personally responsible for its uptime.  Any hardware issues are your issues unless you also purchase a SLA from the data center.  Co-locating a server can get very expensive very quickly.

You could also just host it yourself on a residential or business class connection if it doesn't get a lot of traffic.

[hireshi]

Frequent backups aren't an issue of size.  It is about how much recent activity you are willing to lose given an unrecoverable event.

Physically relocating a server depends on how willing you are to travel or pay for shipping to get it to the nearest datacenter that caters to individuals and has terms of service that permit the content and services you are hosting.  Co-locating a server does mean you are personally responsible for its uptime.  Any hardware issues are your issues unless you also purchase a SLA from the data center.  Co-locating a server can get very expensive very quickly.

You could also just host it yourself on a residential or business class connection if it doesn't get a lot of traffic.

Thanks for sharing some knowledge and tips.
I've got a place to keep it up in one of the countries that I stay in but not the other one, it doesn't get too much traffic so I might look into an affordable connection. I feel confident that my current host's servers is the best place I could be, but I never trust anyone more than myself. 

Will see what I end up doing, shipping it isn't the biggest issue but I guess connection or potential hardware issues are some points I need to think more about.