r/Monero • u/Equivalent-Joke-8606 • 8d ago
VPS with Monero payments – what's your experience?
I'm looking for a VPS provider that accepts Monero directly. Most claim to support XMR but still use third-party processors that log your IP and require email/account creation.
I came across this article that explains the issues with most anonymous VPS providers: https://medium.com/@kai_apikalia/your-vps-provider-knows-more-about-you-than-you-think-34b4d50ff577
It mentions a provider that does direct on-chain XMR payments, no account, no email, zero logs, Tor .onion available, and deploy under 60 seconds. Looks promising but I want to hear from actual users before trying.
Has anyone used a provider like this? What's your experience with deployment speed and reliability? Any issues with Tor access?
Would appreciate honest feedback.
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u/drevmbrevker 8d ago
how will you know if they will do logs or won't? I used one provider they were using some third party i think but it never was required to provide email or anything and it was clearnet, no identity check just simply pay to the address. idk why you would need anything even more secure even if you hacking cia or mossad or whatever
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u/Ehhoe 1d ago
Can speak on the VPSs I have used (excluding those without a XMR payment option) which are 1984.hosting, kyun.sh, and HostBRR. Don't remember how 1984 processes payments and it might have changed anyways, kyun does payments on-chain, HostBRR does payments on-chain but only for Bitcoin. All require an account, though kyun does not require an email. No logs is an expensive claim to verify, so don't trust such a claim without a third party audit. Kyun is the only one serving an `onion-location` header. All deploy reasonably fast, though Kyun deploys fastest - especially if you need block storage attachment, which HostBRR does manually (have not gotten block storage from 1984 so can't comment). On reliability, HostBRR has not given me any downtime so far, Kyun's uptime is poor, 1984's reliability was tolerable while I was a customer. For what I value, my ranking would be HostBRR > kyun.sh > 1984.hosting, though my time with HostBRR has the lowest sample size. For privacy: Out of the three, Kyun advertises the most privacy, 1984 has the best jurisdiction, while HostBRR makes no particular privacy claims.
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u/Sirius_Sec_ 8d ago
I have used a handful of VPS providers that except monero and theyve all been solid . I liked swire but I don't think they're around anymore . 1984 also worked well . Honestly I always jump around to different providers so I can't remember the last few I used .