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Offshore VPS for Belarusian Opposition Newsrooms
You edit a Belarusian-language news outlet that the BelGIE has blocked on national networks since 2020. Half your editorial board operates from Vilnius, half from inside Belarus on burner devices. You need a hosting setup that survives a coordinated blocking order, hides your staff's payment trail from the KGB, and gives sources inside the country a reliable Tor onion path to submit material. This page covers the Anubiz offshore VPS configuration tailored to that operating profile.
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Specifics of the Belarusian threat surface
BelGIE blocks domains at the SNI inspection layer rather than at DNS, so a CDN rotation does not bypass it once the SNI is flagged. Domain fronting is partially viable on a few CDNs but unreliable. Realistically, your readers inside Belarus reach you via Tor, VPN (Psiphon, Lantern, ProtonVPN), or via mirror domains rotated weekly. Your job is to keep the upstream alive. That means the primary VPS sits outside Belarus, outside Russia, and ideally outside the EAEU. Iceland and Romania are strong choices. Lithuania is not - your staff there is identifiable.
Recommended stack
Most Belarusian-language outlets we see run on Ghost, WordPress, or a static site generator (Hugo, Eleventy) for the public site, with a Matrix Synapse homeserver for internal coordination and a SecureDrop instance for tips. Static generators reduce attack surface dramatically - there is no PHP, no database, no admin login on the live site. Edit locally, push to git, rebuild on the VPS. A 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM Anubiz VPS handles 100k daily readers on a static site without breaking a sweat. Add a second VPS in another country for the Matrix homeserver, and a third dedicated VM for SecureDrop if you accept anonymous documents.
Anubiz product binding
Our Iceland and Romania VPS plans start at $17.90/mo. Both jurisdictions ignore informal extraterritorial requests and require a domestic court order before any disclosure. We accept Bitcoin, Monero, USDT and Ethereum at checkout. Account email can be any address - we recommend a Tutanota or ProtonMail address created over Tor and used only for this account. We do not collect government ID, do not phone-verify, and do not require billing address verification. Internal links: /en/anonymous-vps, /en/securedrop-hosting, /en/matrix-hosting.
Operational hygiene we will not do for you
Anubiz is not your security consultant. We will not hold your domain registrar credentials, we will not store your 2FA backup codes, we will not manage your editorial PGP keys. Staff PGP, hardware tokens (YubiKey, Nitrokey), and threat modeling for individual reporters are your responsibility. If a staff member is arrested with an unencrypted laptop, the hosting setup will not save you. Practice device hygiene before you publish anything sensitive.
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