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Hosting a Private BitTorrent Tracker Offshore
You run a private, invite-only BitTorrent tracker community - software like Gazelle, UNIT3D, OCelot, or a custom Rust/Go tracker daemon. Membership is closed, ratio rules are enforced, content is curated. You need stable hosting with control over the IP, in a jurisdiction that does not respond to informal foreign requests. This page covers Anubiz offshore VPS as the substrate for a private tracker.
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Stack
Tracker daemon (OCelot, Chihaya, or built-in Gazelle tracker) on a fast CPU. Web frontend (Gazelle, UNIT3D, or similar) in PHP or Laravel. MariaDB or Postgres for users, torrents, peers, ratios. Redis for peer cache. Sphinx or ElasticSearch for search. Reverse proxy with TLS. Optional secondary VPS for backups. For a 5000-member tracker, all of this fits on a 4 vCPU 16 GB RAM VPS with NVMe storage.
Sizing by member count
Under 1000 members: 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB NVMe. 1000-5000 members: 4 vCPU, 16 GB RAM, 160 GB NVMe. 5000-20000 members: 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM, dedicated NVMe, or move to dedicated server. The tracker peer-announce load grows with concurrent peers more than with total members; bandwidth grows with content volume not peer count.
Anubiz binding
Anubiz offshore VPS plans from $17.90/mo. Romania and Iceland are recommended; Romania is the popular pick for private trackers historically. Crypto payment, no KYC. Internal links: /en/anonymous-vps, /en/hosting-for-bittorrent-tracker-public, /en/hosting-for-p2p-file-sharing-network.
What we will not do
We will not adjudicate copyright disputes within your tracker. We will not respond to foreign rightsholder notices that lack court order from the country of physical hosting. We will not, however, host trackers operating from within the United States or other strictly enforced jurisdictions if the activity is clearly illegal there - because the upstream supplier ultimately controls the data center. Choose Iceland or Romania for a comfortable posture.
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Why Anubiz Host
100% async — no calls, no meetings
Delivered in days, not weeks
Full documentation included
Production-grade from day one
Security-first approach
Post-delivery support included
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Skip the research. Tell us what you need, and we'll scope it, implement it, and hand it back — fully documented and production-ready.