Tor Relay Node Hosting in Finland

Operating a Tor relay or bridge is legal in Finland. The Electronic Communications Services Act treats relay operators as common carriers in spirit, without imposing content liability for traffic the operator did not originate. The Constitution Section 10 protections for secrecy of communications align with the relay operator role of forwarding traffic without inspection. Bridges, which help users in censored countries reach Tor, are explicitly welcome on our Finland VPS.

Helsinki peers with Stockholm in 8 ms, Tallinn 5 ms, Saint Petersburg 15 ms, Frankfurt 30 ms and Moscow 25 ms. For a middle relay, the dense peering with Eastern European and Russian networks means circuits through the relay see consistent throughput. For a bridge, the low latency to censored regions (Russia, China via Moscow IX) is a particular asset. Our Tier 1 blended uplinks sustain over 1 Gbit per VPS for relay traffic.

Mini at 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM and 30 GB NVMe at 9 USD per month for a bridge or low capacity middle relay. Standard at 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM at 18 USD per month for a medium throughput middle relay. Pro at 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM at 36 USD per month for a high capacity guard or middle relay sustaining 200 to 500 Mbit. Unmetered or high cap bandwidth on 1 Gbit. Crypto only billing.

Run the relay under tor user with systemd hardening. Bind only ORPort and DirPort to the public IP, everything else to 127.0.0.1. Publish the relay contact email in torrc so the Tor metrics team can reach you for capacity coordination. Do not co locate hidden services on the same VPS as the relay, since collocation weakens both anonymity sets. Anubiz Host welcomes middle relays and bridges on the standard product. Exit relays require a separate conversation.