A no-KYC VPS means there is no identity verification, no card, and no billing address — email is optional and Monero settles the invoice privately. You spin up a real Linux server without ever proving who you are. You don't exist. We don't ask.
Most "cheap VPS" providers still route you through a payment processor and a signup that quietly captures your name, card, and address. A no-KYC VPS paid in Monero removes both halves of that identity trail at once: nothing verifies who you are, and nothing traces how you paid.
KYC — "know your customer" — is the identity-verification ritual banks and most hosts run before they let you spend money. It exists for regulated financial products; a Linux server is not one. HushVPS treats identity as a liability, not an asset. We collect the minimum needed to hand you a working box, and Monero lets the payment itself stay private instead of becoming the weak link that undoes an otherwise anonymous order.
This page is the specifics: exactly what data touches our system, exactly what we never request, how a no-KYC deployment flows end to end, and why a data-minimising host is a legitimate business rather than a hiding place. If you want the broader tour of the product, start with our anonymous VPS overview; if network-level retention is your concern, the no-logs VPS page goes deeper there.
No vague privacy promises. Here is the actual data boundary — the little we touch to run the service, and the identity we deliberately refuse to gather.
Minimal, functional, and yours to walk away from. Nothing here names a person.
There is no identity to breach, subpoena, or sell — because it was never gathered.
Three steps, no verification queue. From plan to root shell without a single identity check in the path.
Create a quick pseudonymous account — just a username and password, no name, address or phone number — then choose one of the four plans below, pick a cycle, and add an optional email if you want notifications.
We generate an XMR invoice with a rate locked at checkout. Send from your own wallet over clearnet or Tor. Because Monero conceals sender, receiver, and amount, the payment leaves no public trail back to you.
Once the payment confirms, the server provisions and appears in your dashboard. Your account stays pseudonymous — a username, no recovery email required, no identity anywhere in the loop.
New to paying for infrastructure privately? Our walkthrough on how to buy a VPS with Monero anonymously covers wallets, exchanges, and the common mistakes that leak metadata.
Every plan carries the same no-KYC, email-optional, Monero-only deal. The privacy isn't an upsell — it ships with the cheapest box and the biggest one alike.
A quiet, low-cost box for a Tor relay, a small onion service, or a personal WireGuard exit.
The sweet spot for self-hosting — a mail server, a Nextcloud, a private app stack that needs real headroom.
For heavier workloads — a seedbox, a busy relay, or several services sharing one hardened host.
Our biggest ghost — for build servers, dense containers, and anything that eats CPU and RAM for breakfast.
Prices are shown in USD and charged in Monero at the rate locked on your invoice. Compare cycles and specs on the full pricing page.
"No identity check" is not the same as "anything goes." Here is why data-minimising hosting is both legal and responsible.
Know-your-customer rules exist for banks and money-service businesses. Renting a Linux server is not a regulated financial product, so there is no legal obligation to verify who rents one. Operating from a data-friendly jurisdiction, HushVPS simply chooses not to collect what it isn't required to.
Breaches, subpoenas, and data brokers all depend on a provider holding your identity. By not gathering names, cards, or addresses in the first place, we remove the single most valuable thing an attacker or a fishing expedition could want. Minimisation is a security control, not a slogan.
Anonymity does not suspend the law. Our AUP prohibits CSAM, malware, spam, and network attacks such as DDoS, and we act on abuse reports. We can't identify you from data we never took, but we can and do stop harmful use of the network. Privacy, not lawlessness.
Journalists, activists, researchers, and ordinary people have plain, lawful reasons to keep their infrastructure separate from their legal identity. Treating privacy as inherently suspicious is the anomaly. A no-KYC VPS serves people who simply prefer not to be catalogued.
A no-KYC, Monero-paid VPS isn't a niche curiosity — it's the sensible default for anyone who separates their work from their name.
A drop box, a research host, or a scratch server that can't be tied back to a byline or a source through a payment record.
Running Tor relays, WireGuard exits, or onion services where the operator's legal identity should never sit next to the node.
Anyone moving mail, files, or apps off a surveillance-funded cloud who simply doesn't want to hand a hosting company an ID.
Pick a plan and pay privately, or read how the rest of the anonymity holds together before you spend a coin.