Guides & tutorials

Payments How to buy a VPS with Bitcoin (privately) Create an account, top up a prepaid Bitcoin balance, and deploy a server in about a minute — with no ID and no card. 5 min read Read Payments How to pay for hosting with Monero (no KYC) Monero keeps your payment off any public ledger. Here is how to fund a hosting balance with XMR and stay unlinkable. 5 min read Read Privacy No-KYC hosting: what it means and how to stay private What "no KYC" actually means, why most hosts collect your identity, and how to run infrastructure with none attached. 6 min read Read GPU & AI How to rent a GPU server (H100 / 4090) with crypto Modern GPUs, rentable privately by the hour. How to get an H100 or 4090 running on a crypto balance with no KYC. 6 min read Read Privacy Offshore & DMCA-relaxed hosting, explained What "offshore" and "DMCA-relaxed" actually mean, and how jurisdiction changes what can be taken down. 6 min read Read Tutorials How to run a Monero node on a VPS Support the Monero network from offshore infrastructure. Requirements and setup for a full node on a VPS. 7 min read Read Tutorials Set up a WireGuard VPN on an offshore VPS Your own VPN exit on an offshore IP. Why self-hosting WireGuard beats a subscription, and how to set it up. 6 min read Read Tutorials Set up an offshore Windows RDP A private Windows desktop in the cloud, tied to no name. How to deploy and connect to an offshore RDP. 5 min read Read Payments Monero VPS vs Bitcoin VPS: which is more private? Both keep a card and a bank out of the picture. The difference is what the blockchain reveals afterwards — and it is bigger than most people think. 5 min read Read Privacy Offshore hosting vs bulletproof hosting: what is the difference? The two terms get mixed up constantly. The distinction is legal, not marketing — and it decides what you can safely host and what you cannot. 6 min read Read Privacy No-KYC VPS vs a traditional VPS: what changes? Same server, same root access — a very different relationship with the host. Here is exactly what differs, point by point. 5 min read Read Tutorials How to host a website anonymously without KYC or ID Registration, payment, and the server itself are the three places a website leaks your identity. Here is how to close all three and publish with no name attached. 7 min read Read Privacy Is buying a VPS with Bitcoin anonymous? What is traceable Paying in Bitcoin removes your bank and your name — but the chain is public. Here is what stays traceable, what does not, and how to make it genuinely private. 6 min read Read Tutorials How to run a Tor relay or bridge on an offshore VPS The software side takes ten minutes. Choosing the VPS underneath — unmetered in practice, tolerant of privacy tooling — is what decides whether your relay is useful. 7 min read Read Tutorials How to run a Bitcoin full node on a VPS Bitcoin Core installs in ten minutes. Sizing the disk, capping the upload and knowing what you are trusting the host with is what separates a useful node from an idle one. 8 min read Read GPU & AI How to self-host an LLM on a private GPU server Your prompts stop leaving the building the moment the model runs on hardware you rent. Sizing VRAM, picking a serving stack, and keeping the endpoint off the public internet. 9 min read Read Tutorials How to secure a new VPS: the first ten minutes A fresh public IP is scanned within minutes. The short, ordered checklist that closes the box down — and the personal details a generic tutorial leaves behind on it. 11 min read Read Tutorials How to accept Bitcoin payments yourself with BTCPay Server A payment processor is a company that can close your account, and it knows exactly who you are. BTCPay removes it outright — if you size the node underneath correctly and close the leaks a default install leaves open. 11 min read Read Tutorials How to replace Google Drive with a Nextcloud server you own Free cloud storage is an account somebody else can close, holding files somebody else can read. Nextcloud gives you the same sync on hardware you rent — if you size the disk honestly and understand which encryption actually protects you. 13 min read Read Privacy How to choose an offshore server location The region dropdown is the one deployment choice you cannot undo without a migration, and almost everyone picks it in two seconds. Here is what a jurisdiction actually changes, what it never will, and how to choose deliberately. 14 min read Read Privacy VPS vs dedicated server: when you actually need bare metal Cores and gigabytes side by side settle nothing — you can buy sixteen cores either way. What differs is who else executes on the silicon, what you control below the operating system, and where the money crosses over. 14 min read Read Tutorials How to back up a VPS to encrypted offshore storage Nobody configures backups on deploy day — they configure them the day after losing something. Here is what actually counts as a backup, where to put it, and how to know it restores before you need it to. 14 min read Read