Hosting with No Identity Verification — For US Customers

Identity verification at hosting signup is a policy import from the financial industry that does not obviously make sense for hosting. The stated goal is anti-fraud and anti-abuse, but in practice sophisticated abusers obtain verified accounts through synthetic identities or compromised-account purchases, while the verification requirement reliably excludes privacy-seeking legitimate customers.

The verification trail itself creates risk. Every ID scan submitted to a hosting provider becomes a data point that could later leak (security breaches are routine), be subpoenaed, or be sold during corporate restructuring. US customers have watched this exact pattern play out repeatedly across the ID-verification industry — Equifax, various KYC processors, and hosting providers themselves have all suffered breaches that exposed millions of customer verification documents.

The less your hosting provider knows about your real identity, the less they can leak, be compelled to disclose, or commercially exploit. No-verification hosting is not a dodge — it is a deliberate choice to minimize the identity attack surface across the service relationships in your life.

Our complete signup requirements are: a valid email address, a payment method, and agreement to our acceptable use policy. That is the full list. No government-issued ID. No selfie with ID card. No utility bill for proof of residence. No phone number verification (the field is optional; leave it blank if preferred). No company registration documents. No credit check authorization. No billing-address matching against a card.

We do not IP-geolock signups (US customers can sign up from any US IP without flags). We do not run background checks against the name you enter. We do not cross-reference your email address against other databases. We do not require a real name at all — a pseudonym or initials is perfectly acceptable.

For customers who want enhanced operational privacy beyond just the no-verification signup, we recommend: a dedicated email address not reused elsewhere (ProtonMail or Tutanota work well), crypto payment (Bitcoin or Monero, with Monero providing stronger payment privacy), and a PGP public key uploaded to the customer profile so credentials are delivered encrypted.

None of these enhanced steps are required — they are optional tools for customers whose threat model calls for them.

No-verification customers pay the same prices as any other customer. There is no anonymity surcharge and no privacy tax. VPS plans start at $17.90/mo (entry), $24.90/mo (mid), and $52.90/mo (large). Dedicated servers start at $89/mo (Starter), $129/mo (Performance), and $199/mo (Pro).

The no-verification policy is uniform across all tiers, from the $17.90/mo entry VPS to enterprise dedicated servers. Annual billing earns 10-15% off, with an additional 5% loyalty discount for crypto-paying customers on annual cycles.

Hosting customers sometimes ask how a no-verification provider prevents abuse. The honest answer: not through ID verification (which does not actually prevent determined abusers) but through clear acceptable-use policy, responsive abuse handling, and willingness to terminate accounts that violate terms regardless of whether the customer's ID is on file.

Our terms prohibit the categories that constitute genuine abuse: child sexual abuse material (zero tolerance, immediate termination, and law-enforcement cooperation in the appropriate jurisdiction), direct incitement to terrorism or violence, financial fraud including phishing and carding, malware distribution, and content specifically illegal in our operating jurisdictions. Violations of these terms result in account termination.

Copyright, content-legality disputes, and US DMCA notices do not fall in the abuse category — these are content disputes, not abuse, and they are handled through our DMCA-ignored policy (i.e., not acted on unless a domestic court order from an operating jurisdiction specifically requires action). Adult content, political speech, file sharing, and other controversial-vertical content are all fully accepted.

This approach catches the actual abusers (they are identifiable by their behavior on the platform, not by their ID documents) while not punishing the privacy-seeking majority. It works well enough that we have operated it consistently across years of service without needing to impose verification.

US customers shopping for hosting without identity verification find a narrow field. Most major providers have adopted ID verification over the past five years. Providers advertising no-KYC often run substandard infrastructure or fail within a few years of operation. AnubizHost has been operational long enough to have a track record, runs enterprise hardware across every tier, and maintains consistent no-verification policy from $17.90/mo entry VPS to enterprise dedicated servers.

Combined with offshore jurisdictions (Iceland, Finland, Netherlands, Romania, Bulgaria), DMCA-ignored policy, crypto billing, PGP-encrypted credential delivery, Tor-accessible customer portal, and minimal data retention, we are the practical infrastructure home for US customers whose operational circumstances require genuine identity separation from their hosting provider.

Our longest-tenured no-verification customers have been on the infrastructure across multiple renewal cycles, through the evolution of the ID-verification industry as it has crept into more and more services. For US customers who want hosting to remain one of the places where a passport is not required, AnubizHost is where you start. The $17.90/mo entry tier validates the full flow in under 20 minutes from signup to working server.