The security for both my website and old blog are proudly managed by Josey Howarth at LoveSudo.com. This page is dedicated to reviewing Josey's awesome work—both my experiences speaking with her and her company's excellent results.
Note: The review on my 18+ website is identical except the image of my butt is uncensored.
The Girl, Herself
First, Josey has her master's in information security and has done coding work for decades (since the 1980s). She's basically the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, but way nicer. Except while I completely mean it when I say that Josey is one of the nicest people I've ever met, she's also one of the most skilled. And while that might not sound like much, coming from a coding novice like me (though I did take AP programming back in high school in the early 2000s, specifically for Visual Basic and Java), I do understand business contracts and results; i.e., whether or not someone's being straight with me or not. This brings us to Josey's principles, meaning those she brings to bear when helping others.
Her Principles
Concerning Josey the person, she felt incredibly honest before I even met her on call; i.e., through her About page conveying a variety of quick, punchy statements that make up the bedrock of the Love Sudo experience (the site color scheme and design are also very nice, below):
Our Philosophy
We're fascinated by technology here at Love Sudo. However, we're not blind to the challenges technology brings to our world. This means we take a strong philosophical stance on hosting, development, security, and privacy. / We've rescued a lot of clients from hosting solutions that put their business at risk. We've also guided a lot of clients towards digital security from password management to handling parasocial relationships. / We believe in education and we work to translate the strange jargon used for tech, and its problems, into managable and meaningful context for our clients.
Our S.P.A. Treatment
We put a very heavy focus on Security, Privacy, and Agency for our clients, regardless of the type of project.
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- Security: Security has trade-offs. We know and understand what those trade-offs are, and we're always looking for ways to improve the security of our clients, their clients, their sites and so much more.
- Privacy: You should be allowed to make choices about what data is collected about you, how it is stored, how it is used, and when it should be deleted. This includes data collected about your business.
- Agency: You should be allowed to own your own digital presence. This includes not being beholden to hosting solutions that could drop your high-risk business off the internet with no warning.
Our Motto
We have one goal here at Love Sudo: To see your goals reached while empowering you to make choices that do not bleed your wallet. Our motto? We're here to help, not hinder (source: "About").
Having worked with Josey, I can personally attest to her upholding these principles while helping people like myself.
A Damsel-in-Distress
In short, Josey and company work with disadvantaged workers who seek protection—namely sex workers, but also charities and small businesses as well around the world experiencing political violence under normal circumstances (which includes fascism under global US hegemony). Being a trans woman faced with imminent harassment following the election of Trump and implementation of Project 2025—e.g., the FSC v. Paxton June 27th SCOTUS ruling (regarding media censorship [not just of porn in Texas, but anything "obscene"] and the elimination of the Miller Test, 2025), Michigan's Puritanical House Bill 4938 (and the treatment of trans people as inherently pornographic/obscene in ways that bypass the Miller Test, 2025)—and continued denial of my basic human rights, I found myself painfully aware that not all trans women are hackers like Chelsea Manning is (or her Sense8 counterpart); i.e., my old host provider was in a red state and my work could be taken down at any moment(!). I found myself in dire need of some technical prowess, meaning to a heroic degree: "What is the use of wizardry if it cannot save a unicorn?" / "That's what heroes are for!" Enter Josey.
My Hero
In short, after receiving more than idle threats from Nazis in the gaming community who were threatening to go to my old host provider and try to get my website taken down (re: "Hot Karl," 2025), I—a trans researcher, academic radical and open sex worker rapidly facing political violence in my home country from executive powers (and not small, random YouTubers with a hard-on for their favorite online cryptofascist)—found myself needing a hero, fast. That's where Josey came in. I found her word-of-mouth and reached out after reading her site's About page (especially the S.P.A. treatment, above), was captivated by how simple, straightforward and more importantly safe it seemed; i.e., I had looked into other services, but they were mostly corporate or unavailable. Josey, by comparison, reached out the same day after I used her contact form. From there, we were able to initiate talks, and things went very quickly from there!
First and foremost, Josey invited me to talk with her through her site (on a secure channel videocall, for privacy). After I explained my situation over call (reiterating the situation my e-mail had led with), Josey was able to reassure me; i.e., by explaining that, despite how fearsome my predicament seemed, it was actually not unusual or insurmountable: "Many sex workers are taken advantage of the moment they mention their profession to the tech side of things. There's a lot of jargon, ergo opportunities for tech people to throw at them until they get glassy-eyed; I remove that problem, speaking to you in easy-to-follow language that, above all else, gives you security, privacy and agency." And like the heroes of legend, Josey kept her word; she approached me in my hour of need, demonstrating enough technical wizardry to my security person, a ghost partner who would verify if Josey was legit. Something of a computer person themselves (enough to be dangerous), as soon as they saw Josey explaining things to me without trying to hustle me, my friend responded, "She's amazing!"
From my perspective, Josey runs a tight ship, following their principles to the letter. She has experience in sex work, herself—able to communicate power and exchange through mutual forms thereof; i.e., in ways I, a BDSM expert, immediately recognized and appreciated. To that, our first conversation ended with her checking in with how I felt: "I feel great!" I replied. "Very safe! It's like the high without the sex!" Before that point, Josey explained my problem and the different ways it could be solved; i.e., what I could decide after she gave the information to make an informed choice. She also helped me set up Signal and showed me how to verify someone, including my security person so all three of us could be on call. From there, we would have multiple check-ins. Despite being in different countries (the US and Great Britain), Josey was easy to reach and good about setting up times—meaning to meet on Signal to discuss furthering the basic game plan: migrate my website to a new host provider outside the US (and change the domain later on).
This process took less than a month, insofar as she had to get a feel for my site but also explain the process to me while outlining the different choices I could make. We'd reach a point where I'd have to decide, then Josey would lay out the pros/cons of a hands on/off approach, as well as giving the costs for everything should we go in a particular direction. For one, Josey is incredibly safe, meaning protective of a client's identity and information. She's also incredibly forthcoming and skilled at explaining complex situations in clarifying ways; i.e., that let the client remain in control unless they want her to take over (the mark of a good domme, to be honest). Having been handled before, I can absolutely say that Josey knows her stuff in that department, too—combining the computer and business elements in ways that recognize I'm a girl in trouble and she's here to help. I had my second there to step in, in case things got weird, but Josey was a straight shooter and total sweetheart who never once judged me for my work; re: the exact hero I was looking for!
Saving My Bacon (at a Discount)
Returning to the matter of my site's migration:
- I reached out to Josey on September 20th.
- She provided a contract for me to sign on October 1st—one that was written in clear language (which comes from me, someone used to writing these things); i.e., that she would plan to migrate my website on October 13th, mitigating the labor cost given I was hosting directly with her (and she would handle my security while I handle content).
- She migrated my WordPress website on October 13th and helped set up 2FA for my security person and I.
- She migrated my old Blogger domain onto WordPress on October 16th, then helped set up 2FA there, as well.
- She helped iron out small bugs before, during and after these points.
Apart from communicating things quickly and well, Josey not only never tried to take advantage; she also gave me leeway insofar as costs went: a set $30 rate (with a discount being applied from having discovered her through word of mouth, not Google). Through that, she handles data storage, hosting and website security for both my blog and website. She also showed me how to do other cool stuff, like SEO, PostHog and Breakdance, and is helping me redesign my website down the road to not only protect it, but help it thrive and look good while doing it! For now, the goal is: "get things transferred, stable and to where you're happy with them; then, we'll start doing the real cool shit." To top it all off, she lets me pay a month after the deadline (due to COVID and similar instabilities that frequently go arm-in-arm with sex workers, who are often housing challenged and have infrequent income). Best $30 I ever spent—and this is coming from someone who knows how to get her money's worth!
To conclude, Josey saved my bacon by showing me grace beyond what mere words can describe. Here, I was—afraid my life's work would be taken and destroyed, like Hirschfeld's Institute of Sexology—and Josey was like, "I gotchu." With a few strokes of her keys, she gave me the ability to relax regarding my work—giving me the security required to work uninterrupted, the privacy to feel safe, and the agency to know I still had power in a seemingly powerless situation. In short, I could focus on my craft, helping other sex workers while Josey looked over me (and my sex work, below) from on high. She single-handed saved my ass—not just my website, but my old blog and over ten years' worth of writing and scholarship. Fascism enacts genocide by destroying those it hates, erasing their past; Josey is the archiver preserving my work so those Nazi fucks won't get me: "Not yet, Kameraden! Not yet!" Some heroes have big muscles; some, like Josey, have big brains and hearts (and, in her case, "an ever growing rubber ducky water battalion"). She's sand beneath my keel, the wind in my sails, and I owe her a debt I cannot repay.
(artist: Persephone van der Waard)
Calling All Sluts
We live in Gothic times; it's easy to feel alone and afraid, surrounded by mighty foes who mean us harm. To anyone who needs saviors like Josey in your corner, she offers a discount through word-of-mouth. That means if you've worked with me before (or this is your first time visiting my site), and are in need of added security like that which I just described, Josey's your girl. She's smart, careful and considerate, not just willing but able to help regarding that which for many sex workers might otherwise seem far-fetched, even impossible. While my website is designed to promote other sex workers, Josey can help you set up your own; i.e., doing so at an incredibly affordable price. So while my domains cost roughly $30 a year and Josey's hosting service (through her variable discounts) cost $30 a month, that cost would be the same through a giant company. Josey's a person who's there and willing to help with a variety of services; i.e., ranging from SEO and data management to personal and professional hosting to project management and all that entails! She not only works with sex workers all around the world; she also has a small team of developers, infrastructure and administration, not to mention they partner with FireMane Studios for all your graphic design needs, too! And if all that isn't enough, her site features a bevy of case studies and testimonials, too!
(artist: Persephone van der Waard)
So what are you waiting for? Give Josey a try and tell her Persephone sent you!
