How to make sure if a Hosting Provider is Legit or Not

wellwisher

We have only two Points to Verify
Not Using Abused Nodes / Carding
Not Selling User Data

Facts Only :>
Only Valid for Indian Hosting Providers at this moment i will keep updating for other Countries soon..

Ofc you are not going to ask every hosting owners for Invoices of their node payments or Bank Statement and even some the real Hosting will not entertain you for such things

Then How Should a User know that if its a Legit Hosting or Not??
Their are Few Steps and only 2 Docs you need to ask and any Legit Companies will happily Provide that

No 1: CIN / Company Identification No
No 2: GSTIN / Good and Services Tax Indentification No

What is CIN?
Ans: If a Company is Registered with Goverment they all are governed by PCI DSS Complaice [Data Security]
and CIN is a no Govt Issues when they are registered company
How to verify CIN?
Go ahead to https://www.quickcompany.in/
And past The CIN You got [Most cases Registered Company Will Give their CIN/GSTIN in their Website it self so no need ask]
If they dont gave it their as them to give

If their Director Name and Company Matches to what you need in https://www.quickcompany.in/ you are good

Why you need to Verify GSTIN also?
GST Governs not only Taxes but also Makes sure a Company is Properly Audited
and Auditing Means making all companies money is properly used an not in any short of scams
as any Type of SaaS/IaaS/PassS will have expenditures for Raw Meterials and if they dont show Purchase Invoices to GSTIN authorities they will get panelites so if they have GSTIN they are not using Abused Nodes Probably
How to Verify GSTIN?
Go Ahead to https://services.gst.gov.in/services/searchtp
Enter the GSTIN No you got from your hosting Website or you have asked them
Make sure to match the Details to their CIN [Make sure everything Matches]

wellwisher

Since all the abover check was locked for Indian Hosting Provider here are some Universal Checks
1. One Make sure its not a new hosting [in case its a new hosting and they are giving good prices do check their domain if its .com .ai .net .org you are good to go] —-> First Check Passed

2.Make Sure they arent Using the followed providers Google Cloud or Microsoft Azure —> Thats Probably Free Trail [OCI doest counts any more as their free teir has expired and no longer provided]

3.Also their no of Carders along over here if see the host is using following Providers and still giving server as cheap as 1.5 USD starting price Umm they are probably Carding -> Providers –> Hostinger , OVH , Hetzner [This is Subjective]

4.Make Sure that they a have proper billing website and not selling servers just in Discord [This could be a Scam]
Check if their Website is not Paymeter —> Its a free Billing Software that is mostly used by unprofessionals and Scammers as they do not need to buy a billing software, If a hosting cant afford 23 USD for WHMCS or 15 USD for Blesta then probably they aren’t paying for their Nodes also a complete scam

Now if they are using WHMCS or Blesta please confirm if they are nulled or not
go ahead to https://account.blesta.com/client/plugin/license_verify/ for blesta and
https://www.whmcs.com/members/verifydomain.php/verifydomain.php for WHMCS

5. Never EVER Never Pay to any hosting owner directly instead ask them for an Payment Gateway
if can be anything like PayPal [Merchat ID] ,Stripe , Razorpay ,Cashfree ,CCAvenue etc etc
Never Pay them Directly to Bank Account weather via Wire Transfer , NEFT/IMPS , UPI whatever

Never Use Crypto to buy they are not refundable by any Hosting provider [Even the legit onces]

Please Keeping Mind you are the users are one responsible for so many scam hosting as if guys verify everyhost before buy it would to lead to automatic closure to all scam host as they cant ran without users
spend your mind wisely do not use any random hosting on discord without properly verifing
nerver beleive in their owner words rather ask for cerificates or registration no and follow the aboe rules