# What are some good VPS hosting provider recommendations? **URL:** https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/what-are-some-good-vps-hosting-provider-recommendations/34686 **Category:** Questions **Created:** 2026-01-14T05:34:37Z **Posts:** 25 ## Post 1 by @anon1333233 — 2026-01-14T05:34:37Z Preferably, something with free(mium) tier would be an excellent choice for those starting to self host, just to get the feel of it. If it’s not applicable, what would be the next best paid option? --- ## Post 2 by @anon57862721 — 2026-01-14T07:44:03Z This is the best one I know: > **[Icelandic Web Hosting with Free Speech | OrangeWebsite](https://orangewebsite.com/)** > > We offer anonymous domain registration services for popular TLD's and .IS domains. 24/7 support, Offshore location, Bitcoin payments accepted. --- ## Post 3 by @anon61753997 — 2026-01-14T08:30:29Z > **[Find KYC-free Services | KYCnot.me](https://kycnot.me/?categories=vps&categories=hosting)** > > Find services that don't require KYC (Know Your Customer) verification for better privacy and control over your data. --- ## Post 4 by @fria — 2026-01-14T18:47:34Z This is a new one but the dev is committed to privacy and aligned with our goals I think. Plus they’re very responsive to feedback: > **[Servury - Freedom Cloud](https://servury.com)** > > Deploy virtual servers and proxies anonymously in seconds. No email or personal info required, 99.9% uptime guaranteed. Don’t need any data to sign up just a randomly generated account number or passkey, and deleting your account is easy and happens automatically after 24 hours with no active subscriptions. --- ## Post 5 by @What_a_Guy — 2026-01-14T21:51:53Z ServesGuru is affordable, unlimited bandwidth, not KYC, accepys Monero for payment, has a onion page, and has excellent customer service. Clear net: [Servers.Guru - Customer panel](https://my.servers.guru/login) Onion site: [http://mysguru5rigppyihrnsejsa2wb3vv35wlzvx5u7bahw2uld3rxycphqd.onion/](http://mysguru5rigppyihrnsejsa2wb3vv35wlzvx5u7bahw2uld3rxycphqd.onion/) --- ## Post 6 by @Tux — 2026-01-14T22:19:36Z The domain names seem very overpriced. .net and .org can be bought from Cloudflare for less than $10/year. More exotic tlds are surprisingly even more expensive while being less useful (they tend to be treated suspiciously by spam blacklists). In theory, you need to provide genuine contact details, but this is not enforced by ID. --- ## Post 7 by @anon57862721 — 2026-01-14T22:25:05Z There are reasons other than just cost for why you use a privacy forward VPS provider. Buying from Cloudflare cannot be as private as other options mentioned here. --- ## Post 8 by @kissu — 2026-01-15T07:07:29Z Quite a few questions like that are already on the forum, one being posted less than a month ago. Please give the search a try next time. :hugs: --- ## Post 9 by @anon1333233 — 2026-02-25T14:19:51Z I would like to ask some clarification on the matter. Using a VPS service is basically renting a machine that stays online for hosting your services, right? My main questions about it would be 1. Even from privacy-respecting providers, in theory they could always see what you put or run in these machines, right? 2. How does this correlate to domain registration? --- ## Post 10 by @kissu — 2026-02-25T16:47:39Z > [@anon1333233](#): > > would like to ask some clarification on the matter. Using a VPS service is basically renting a machine that stays online for hosting your services, right? Yes > [@anon1333233](#): > > Even from privacy-respecting providers, in theory they could always see what you put or run in these machines, right? You have some specific tech and claims but overall you won’t be 100% sure indeed. > 1. How does this correlate to domain registration? Some of them do offer both a VPS and a domain at the same time but you can definitely buy them independently, the 2 things **doesn’t need** to be paired. :+1:t2: --- ## Post 11 by @anon1333233 — 2026-02-25T16:48:56Z What are those tech and claims? Anywhere I can read about them? --- ## Post 12 by @kissu — 2026-02-25T17:38:37Z TEEs are quite popular especially amongst AI service providers. Otherwise, each VPS provider probably wrote some article about how trustworthy they are at some point, give the one you’re specifically interested a search engine search. :winking_face_with_tongue: --- ## Post 13 by @anon1333233 — 2026-02-25T18:38:17Z I don’t know what TEE’s mean. Upon giving it a search, I’ve come up with Trusted Execution Environments. Is that it? I don’t really buy the “trust me bro” agendas that providers can come up with. If I host an application that doesn’t encrypt its data like most RSS services, it would be the same as using any other non-encrypted app hosted by some other company. Maybe if that’s the case, offline P2P services would be the way to go. --- ## Post 14 by @kissu — 2026-02-25T18:39:41Z > [@anon1333233](#): > > I’ve come up with Trusted Execution Environments If you hover over my abbreviation, this is what it will lead to indeed. :+1:t2: > [@anon1333233](#): > > I don’t really buy the “trust me bro” agendas that providers can come up with Same. Solution: self-hosting. :hugs: --- ## Post 15 by @anon1333233 — 2026-02-25T18:44:29Z Hovering wasn’t working for me at all. But I will search on the matter. I guess that would be the solution, yes. --- ## Post 16 by @notwithstanding — 2026-03-12T19:57:48Z Learning to effectively self-host is pretty fantastic. Things like Audiobookshelf, Vaultwarden, Immich, Radicale—all pretty easy to self-host, and can help ensure you keep your data in your own possession. Just make sure you do research into effective backup strategies. You will make mistakes, and you do not want those mistakes to result in losing important data! --- ## Post 17 by @iron_angel — 2026-03-13T00:32:55Z This is the one I know of [www.incognet.io](http://www.incognet.io) --- ## Post 18 by @fiqiluvo.epileto — 2026-03-13T00:57:07Z Hosting provders have an EULA agreement that typically doesn’t state that a provider will examine your VPS contents _unless we’re talking about Hetzner_. No provider has invested into large scale mass surveillance programs on their customers to my knowledge. The kind of risks people typically mean are multitenancy and evil technicians. Large cloud providers like Amazon, GCP, Google do provide VPSes with hyperthreading disabled and pin VMs to a core (not with all plans, Amazon offers cheaper solutions with HT) and are crystal clear about their security practices. Infra is provisioned automatically and no technician could ssh or VNC into a customer’s machine to “debug performance of a node”. Meanwhile your typical $3 VPS runs on Proxmox/xcp-ng and has multitenancy issues with shared networking, core pinning, EOL Xeons with spectre mitigations off not to mention bad security practices and an overall bad company culture around this topic. Serious providers care about security a lot. While some providers survive on a margin, Amazon has insane budgets and can hire amazing engineers that do care and produce things like firecracker. You have nothing to worry about if you’re not an APT. Cloud providers would examine contents of your machine only on court order/clear red flag leading the internal team to believe you’re doing nefarious things. --- ## Post 19 by @fiqiluvo.epileto — 2026-03-13T01:11:24Z Unrelated note, but i find it funny to see cloudflare being more resilient to the attacks on the freedom of speech in case of Kiwifarms while the self proclaimed freedom of speech and secure hosting/DNS providers have repeatedly deplatformed paying customers (breaking EULA in some cases). Most of them weren’t even as toxic as Kiwifarms and would be considered mainstream. People interested in privacy and security, but especially activists should really stop paying money to grifters. Cloudflare and Amazon are historically better at security and are more indiffert to the paying customer than njalla, 1984 and so on. The evilmegacorps narrative just doesn’t apply here. --- ## Post 20 by @cloud_stacker — 2026-07-07T13:53:24Z I think it depends more on the provider than the VPS itself. Things like timely hypervision updates, proper VM isolation, modern hardware, and clear security practices matter a lot more than brand name. Plenty of low-cost provider cut corners, while others actually invest in keeping their infrastructure up to date. I’ve had a good experience with DedicatedCore. Their infrastructure has been reliable; they stay on top of security updates, and overall it’s been a solid choice for workloads where stability matters. DomainRacer is another good VPS hosting option if you’re looking for dependable performance without going with the cheapest provider. --- ## Post 21 by @Smallx — 2026-07-07T15:49:35Z You can find bunch of recomendations on lowendtalk forum, ussually people discuss server side things there. Pretty technical community there, what I used so far is bitlaunch but it’s pretty pricey in my opinion. --- ## Post 22 by @privacylover — 2026-07-07T18:48:41Z Panix, VPS runs NetBSD perfect to learn about NetBSD. > **[Panix - Public Access Networks Corporation](https://www.panix.com/)** --- ## Post 23 by @GolCor — 2026-07-07T20:18:43Z I was prioritizing Icelandic servers for a bit because they have some of the best data privacy laws in the world. Well, they’re supposed to, at least. I am not a lawyer, so I kind of have to take the word on that from others. I was using [https://1984.hosting](https://1984.hosting) for a bit, but they had an issue one Saturday morning with a data drive getting too full, which crashed several of the VPSs, including mine. I opened a ticket, but never heard back until the following Monday. They apparently only work on weekends for emergencies, which does not include servers going down. I’ve moved to [https://flokinet.is](https://flokinet.is) and have been very pleased with their service overall and with the timeliness of their support responses. Call it a feature or a bug, but they don’t accept American credit cards, so I pay in BTC. --- ## Post 24 by @overdrawn98901 — 2026-07-07T22:52:08Z Cross linking previous VPS related discussion. This is a semi reocurring topic. - [What is best VPS for anonymity?](https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/what-is-best-vps-for-anonymity/12857) - [Recommendations for third-party Webhosting for email and website?](https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/recommendations-for-third-party-webhosting-for-email-and-website/21150) - [Guide on Deploying Applications to Rented Servers and choosing Domain Registrars](https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/guide-on-deploying-applications-to-rented-servers-and-choosing-domain-registrars/20810) - [Cheap, privacy-respecting VPS for hosting Pangolin?](https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/cheap-privacy-respecting-vps-for-hosting-pangolin/30697) - [Private Domain Registrars and VPS Providers](https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/private-domain-registrars-and-vps-providers/33824) - [VPS server for anonymity?](https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/vps-server-for-anonymity/28757) - [Guides for self-hosting from a focus on privacy?](https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/guides-for-self-hosting-from-a-focus-on-privacy/33844) - [SelfPrivacy (Tool for Self-Hosting on VPS)](https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/selfprivacy-tool-for-self-hosting-on-vps/31095) - [Privacy-respecting VPS recommendations for gaming](https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/privacy-respecting-vps-recommendations-for-gaming/12891) --- ## Post 25 by @VPSStranger — 2026-08-03T21:26:57Z I had the same issue as GolCor with 1984. Their support is not that good. I have heard they have very few staff members, and they do not work the weekends. I needed a backup sent of my website, and I waited 3 days, and they sent me a year old backup… ? I have tried [https://orangewebsite.com](https://orangewebsite.com) as many, its pretty solid, but its still pretty expensive. I think my favourite today is [https://packetra.com](https://packetra.com) I found them on the kycnot website that someone talked about above. I had to use their support and appearantly its 24/7 every day of the year and this guy eemeli that helped me really knew his stuff. Like really knew what he was talking about. If you like Iceland then I like OrangeWebsite, but Packetra I would use for Switzerland. I think they also have servers in Finland or something. I have the Switzerland ones.