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Privacy & no-KYC

Do VPS providers keep logs of what I do?

Short answer

Most do. Netflow records, connection logs and panel access logs are standard, retained for 30 to 365 days, and in the EU and UK certain retention is legally mandated. OnionVPS operates in jurisdictions with no such mandate and does not generate netflow or connection logs at all, so there is nothing to retain or disclose.

The distinction that matters is between logs that exist and logs that are kept. A provider can honestly say "we do not sell your data" while retaining a full record of every connection your server made. Ask specifically about netflow.

What we do keep, because it is operationally unavoidable: the existence and configuration of your instance, aggregate bandwidth counters for billing, and hypervisor-level health metrics. None of these record destinations, contents or timing of individual connections.

  • No netflow or connection records generated
  • No DNS query logging on our resolvers
  • No panel access-log retention beyond the active session
  • Aggregate bandwidth counters only, for billing

See also: Hypervisor

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