Tor-Friendly VPS — Run Relays and Hidden Services

The Tor network depends on volunteers running relay and exit nodes to route traffic and protect user anonymity. But finding hosting providers that allow Tor operations is increasingly difficult. Many providers explicitly prohibit Tor in their acceptable use policies. Others allow it on paper but suspend accounts after the first abuse complaint — which exit nodes inevitably receive.

This hostile hosting environment directly harms the Tor network. Fewer relay operators means less bandwidth and more congestion. Fewer exit nodes means more traffic concentrated through fewer points, increasing surveillance risk. Fewer .onion service hosts means less content available through Tor's hidden service infrastructure.

AnubizHost addresses this problem by providing hosting that is genuinely Tor-friendly — not just tolerant, but welcoming. We understand that Tor exit nodes will receive abuse complaints, and we have processes in place to handle them without disrupting your service. We understand the importance of Tor for privacy, free speech, and human rights, and we support it through our hosting infrastructure.

AnubizHost VPS plans are well-suited for running Tor relay nodes. Our generous bandwidth allocations, unmetered traffic options, and high-throughput networking provide the capacity that Tor relays need to meaningfully contribute to the network. Our no-log infrastructure ensures that your relay operation does not create metadata that could be used to deanonymize Tor users.

We support all types of Tor relays: guard/middle relays, bridge relays, and exit relays. For exit relays, we provide a reduced exit policy template that limits the ports available for exit traffic, reducing abuse complaints while still providing useful exit capacity. You can customize this policy based on your risk tolerance and your assessment of which ports generate the most value versus the most abuse.

Our support team is familiar with Tor relay operations and can help you optimize your relay configuration for our infrastructure. We also provide guidance on handling DMCA and abuse complaints that exit node operators typically receive, and we do not treat these complaints as grounds for service termination.

Tor hidden services (now called onion services in Tor Project terminology) allow you to host websites and services that are accessible only through the Tor network. These services provide mutual anonymity — the server operator and the user are both protected by Tor's layered encryption and routing.

AnubizHost privacy VPS is an ideal platform for hosting onion services. Our encrypted storage protects the hidden service private keys at rest. Our no-log networking prevents traffic analysis at the hosting level. Our anonymous billing means there is no paper trail linking the onion service to a real-world identity.

You can host any type of onion service: websites, messaging platforms, file sharing services, API endpoints, or any other network service. Our VPS gives you full root access to install and configure the Tor daemon, generate onion service keys, and configure your application stack. We do not restrict or monitor onion service traffic, and we do not require disclosure of your .onion addresses.

Operating Tor exit nodes inevitably generates abuse complaints from automated systems that detect unwanted traffic originating from your IP address. These complaints are typically DMCA notices, spam reports, or brute-force alerts triggered by Tor users whose traffic exits through your node.

AnubizHost handles these complaints with the understanding that exit node operators are not responsible for traffic that passes through their nodes. We acknowledge complaints with a standard response explaining that the IP address operates a Tor exit node and that the operator has no control over or knowledge of the traffic passing through it.

We do not forward abuse complaints to your email by default (though you can opt in if you want to monitor them). We do not suspend your service over abuse complaints related to Tor exit operations. We do not impose bandwidth penalties or additional fees for operating Tor nodes. Our Tor-friendly policy is backed by operational procedures, not just words in a marketing page.