Switzerland VPS for v3 Onion Hidden Services
Switzerland is outside the EU disclosure framework and has the most developed jurisprudence around hosting-provider neutrality in Continental Europe. AnubizHost Swiss VPS run v3 onions with the same hardened defaults as Iceland, plus a jurisdictional layer that benefits operators whose threat model includes EU-level administrative pressure.
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Swiss Law and Onion Services
The revised Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (revDSG, in force since 2023) treats hosting providers as data controllers only for customer billing data, not for traffic content. For an onion VPS this means the legal disclosure scope is the BTC/XMR payment record plus the SSH login pattern. We hold no traffic content and we ship VPS with logging disabled.
Switzerland is not in the EU and not bound by EU mutual-legal-assistance shortcuts. A foreign disclosure request goes through the Federal Office of Justice and requires dual criminality plus a Swiss court order. This filter eliminates the vast majority of speculative onion-service complaints.
Tor Configuration
The Swiss template matches Iceland defaults with one variation: we enable HiddenServiceExportCircuitID by default because Swiss operators frequently run onions with their own abuse-monitoring layer for legitimate-content services (legal cannabis platforms, harm-reduction sites, dissident media):
HiddenServiceDir /var/lib/tor/hs_v3/
HiddenServicePort 80 unix:/run/onion.sock
HiddenServiceVersion 3
HiddenServiceEnableIntroDoSDefense 1
HiddenServiceExportCircuitID haproxy
HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints 4Banking-Adjacent and Whistleblower Onions
Swiss jurisdiction historically attracts whistleblower-platform operators (the OCCRP-adjacent ecosystem) and financial-disclosure onions that touch Swiss banking-secrecy boundaries. We provide standard v3 hosting without specialized SecureDrop hardening; for SecureDrop see SecureDrop Iceland.
Pricing and Onboarding
Swiss POP pricing is higher than Romania or Ukraine because Swiss bandwidth and floor-space costs are higher. We bill in USD via crypto. No KYC, no ID. Provisioning is 15 to 25 minutes including Vanguards installation.
Related: Tor hosting parent, Iceland v3, Vanguards VPS, Romania v3, SecureDrop Iceland.
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