Commercial VPN providers ask you to trust their no-logs claims without verification. When you run your own VPN server, the logs are your logs - you configure what is retained and what is not. The infrastructure is yours, operating under policies you set rather than policies a third-party company applies to thousands of customers simultaneously.
Offshore hosting for your VPN server adds a legal layer that self-hosting in your home country cannot provide. A VPN server in Iceland or Romania is not subject to data retention mandates in your home country and does not automatically comply with your home country's law enforcement requests. This combination of self-hosting control and offshore legal protection creates significantly stronger privacy than either approach alone.
AnubizHost's no-KYC ordering means your VPN server's hosting account is not linked to your identity. Your server's IP addresses are not registered to you personally. This isolation between the VPN infrastructure and your personal identity is a meaningful privacy benefit.