Bulletproof hosting
Short definition
Industry slang historically describing hosts willing to accept content other operators won't — including illegal material in some cases.
'Bulletproof' is a piece of hosting-industry slang that emerged in the early 2000s describing operators willing to ignore takedown requests across the board, including for clearly illegal content. The term has historically been associated with spam infrastructure, malware command-and-control, and content that no reputable jurisdiction protects.
Reputable offshore hosts do NOT identify as bulletproof and explicitly distance themselves from it. The line is clear: DMCA-resilient hosts protect customers from abusive takedowns of legitimate content (fair use, parody, archives) under jurisdictions where DMCA doesn't apply. Bulletproof hosts (in the historical sense) refused to act on anything. The two are different products serving different (and often illegal) markets. SilentHosts is firmly DMCA-resilient and explicitly NOT bulletproof — the AUP bans CSAM, malware C2, fraud, phishing, and non-consensual imagery without exception.
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