Practical privacy and OpSec guides from the people who run the servers — how to pay anonymously, keep no logs, route through Tor, and self-host without leaving a paper trail. You don't exist. We don't ask.
Everything here is written to be actionable, not theoretical. We stay on the legal side of privacy: these guides help you minimise the data you leave behind, not break the law. Start with the pillar overview of anonymous VPS hosting, then dig into whichever thread matters to your threat model.
Where the anonymity actually begins: the checkout. These guides cover paying in Monero, avoiding KYC, and getting a server without handing over your identity.
A step-by-step walkthrough of paying for hosting in XMR — from funding a wallet to confirming the transaction — with no card, no bank trail, no name attached.
Read guideThe full anonymous-signup playbook: throwaway email, Tor at checkout, and the metadata pitfalls that quietly deanonymise most "private" server orders.
Read the walkthroughBitcoin is a public ledger; Monero isn't. Here's the reasoning behind accepting one privacy coin instead of a menu of traceable ones.
See our reasoningWhere to acquire XMR without an identity check — peer-to-peer desks, atomic swaps, and how to avoid the exchanges that log everything.
Read guideAnonymous payment is step one. Keeping it that way means understanding what "no logs" really means and how to reach your box without exposing your IP.
What providers actually record, which logs are unavoidable, and how to tell a genuine data-minimising host from marketing.
Read guideReach SSH through an onion service so your admin sessions never expose your home IP to the network or the server.
Follow the setupEnd-to-end OpSec for operating a box under a pseudonym — identity separation, payment hygiene, and the mistakes that link it back to you.
Read guidePut the box to work. Concrete builds for the services privacy-minded people self-host most — relays, VPNs, mail, and password vaults.
Give bandwidth back to the network: how to stand up a stable relay, set exit policy, and pick a host that won't blink at the traffic.
Read guideOwn your VPN instead of renting trust. A lean WireGuard build on your own VPS, with the config choices that keep it truly logless.
Build itDeliverability is the hard part of self-hosted mail. What a clean IP reputation means and how to keep your messages out of spam folders.
Read guideKeep your password vault on infrastructure you control. Deploying a Bitwarden-compatible server without tying it to your legal identity.
Read guideEvery walkthrough here runs on the same footing: a Monero-paid, no-logs box with no ID at signup. Spin one up and follow along.