Privacy & no-KYC
What data does a hosting provider collect about me?
Most providers collect a name, billing address, payment card, phone number, government ID, signup IP address, and complete access and connection logs. OnionVPS collects an email address, a payment reference from the processor, and the technical state needed to run your instance. No name, no address, no document, no card, no connection logs.
The gap is what matters in a breach. A conventional provider's customer database is an identity dossier; ours is a list of email aliases and machine identifiers. Both can be stolen; only one is worth stealing.
We do retain what is technically unavoidable: which instance exists, on which host, with which IP, and the billing state. We do not retain netflow records, connection logs, DNS query logs, or the contents of your disk — and we do not have the ability to reconstruct them after the fact.
| Data point | Typical provider | OnionVPS |
|---|---|---|
| Legal name | Required | Never collected |
| Billing address | Required | Never collected |
| Government ID | Often required | Never collected |
| Payment card | Required | Not accepted |
| Phone number | Often required | Never collected |
| Signup IP address | Retained indefinitely | Not retained |
| Connection / netflow logs | Retained 30–365 days | Not generated |
| Email address | Retained | Retained — the only identifier |
7 answers in Privacy & no-KYC
- What is no-KYC hosting? No-KYC hosting is server hosting that does not require identity verification. No passport, no photo ID, no billing address and no payment card. An ema…
- Is no-KYC hosting legal? Yes. There is no general legal requirement to identify server customers in the jurisdictions where OnionVPS operates. Anti-money-laundering identifica…
- How do I buy a VPS anonymously? Use a provider that requires no identity verification, sign up from a network that is not your home connection, use an email alias created for the pur…
- Do VPS providers keep logs of what I do? 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 l…
- Can a VPS be traced back to me? It depends entirely on the links you create, not on the hosting itself. A no-KYC server paid for in Monero and administered over Tor has no provider-s…
- What is offshore hosting? Offshore hosting means placing a server in a jurisdiction other than your own — usually one outside the Fourteen Eyes intelligence-sharing alliances a…