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Offshore VPS for Iranian Opposition and Diaspora Journalism
You publish a Persian-language news outlet covering protests, women's rights, and political prisoners inside Iran. The Islamic Republic blocks your domain at the national gateway. Your readers reach you via VPN, Tor with Snowflake bridges, or Psiphon. Your reporters inside the country are at constant personal risk. You need infrastructure beyond the reach of the Ministry of Intelligence, with a payment trail that does not expose your funders. This page is the Anubiz substrate guide for that operating context.
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The Iranian filtering layer
Iran operates one of the most aggressive national firewalls in the world. SNI inspection, TLS fingerprinting, and active probing of Tor bridges all happen at the gateway. Persian-language sites get blocked within hours of being identified as politically sensitive. Your job at the hosting layer is to keep the upstream alive and reachable from outside, then publish via multiple channels: clearnet (for diaspora and VPN users), Tor onion (for inside-Iran readers using Tor Browser), and Telegram channel (highly censored but still used by tens of millions inside Iran).
Recommended stack
Use a static site generator (Hugo or Eleventy) for the public site - eliminates the WordPress attack surface. Add a Matrix Synapse homeserver for editorial chat with reporters inside the country. Deploy a Tor onion mirror on the same Anubiz VPS - it costs nothing extra and gives readers inside Iran a stable path. For tip intake, a SecureDrop instance on a separate VPS is appropriate. Hardware sizing: 4 vCPU 8 GB RAM handles a Persian newsroom of 500k monthly readers comfortably on a static stack.
Anubiz product and Snowflake hint
Our offshore VPS plans start at $17.90/mo, payable in Bitcoin or Monero. Iceland is the strongest jurisdiction for Iranian opposition media because of its press protection laws. Romania is the second choice. Both ignore Iranian extraterritorial requests. As a bonus civic-action option, you can also run a Snowflake proxy on an Anubiz VPS to help Iranian Tor users connect - it consumes minimal resources and broadens the global bridge pool. See /en/anonymous-vps and /en/securedrop-hosting for more.
Operational limits
We host the VPS. We do not run your editorial operation, do not configure your Tor bridges, do not provide secure devices to reporters inside Iran, and do not provide legal defense if a reporter is detained. Anubiz can keep your site alive and reachable - the rest is your work.
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