Criteria · survey of 10 November 2026
Seven checks anyone can run on a host’s public pages. No score, no badge: each one is a fact you can verify.
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What makes a VPS privacy-focused?
A privacy-focused VPS asks for little at signup, takes payment through the host’s own wallet and gives you root on your own KVM server. Gloamport asks for no name, address, phone number or ID document, and its email is optional. In Gloamport’s survey, 36 of 42 active crypto hosts require one.
| Check | Survey of 10 November 2026 (42 active hosts) | Gloamport |
|---|---|---|
| Email at signup | 36 require it; 6 have none or an optional one | Optional |
| Name, address or phone number | Name: 13; address: 9; phone: 5 | None of the three |
| Identity document | None: 28; in some cases: 11; always: 1 | None, now or later |
| Who handles the payment | Own gateway: 9; third party: 14; not stated: 19 | Own wallets, no third-party processor |
| Monero accepted | 26 hosts | Yes, first among the coins |
| Official .onion address | 10 hosts | None claimed on this page |
| Root access on your own server | Varies by plan; read the plan page | Root over SSH on full KVM |
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Survey counts exclude Gloamport. A host can pass a check on one plan and not on another.
As little as the host can run the service on. A plan, a way to pay and a way to sign in are enough.
According to Gloamport’s survey of 10 November 2026, 13 of 42 active hosts ask for a full name, 9 for a postal address, 5 for a phone number and 36 for an email. An order asks for three things: a plan, a coin and, only if you want one, an email address. There is no name field, no postal address, no phone number, no card and no identity document anywhere in the process.
It should, and it should say so in its terms as well as on its home page. 28 hosts state that no identity document is asked, and 11 keep the right to ask in some cases.
VSYS Host is an example of the second group: its home page says you can register without KYC, and its terms reserve the right to ask for documents proving you own the paying account. No identity check, now or later: no ID upload, no selfie, no proof of address, no card and no phone number.
Only the host. A payment that passes through a third-party processor shows your order to one more company.
In the survey, 14 hosts name a third-party processor such as CoinPayments, BitPay or CoinGate, and 19 do not say. NiceVPS states that it uses no third-party processors, and Servury names its own self-hosted nodes. Payments go to wallet addresses that Gloamport holds itself. No third-party payment processor sits between you and us, so no payment company receives your order details or your transaction.
The coin matters too. Monero hides the sender, the receiver and the amount of a payment by default. Bitcoin, USDT and the other coins are public ledgers: anyone who links an address to you can see what it paid and when.
An official .onion address lets a visitor reach the host without leaving the Tor network. 10 of 42 hosts publish one, among them Njalla and MyNymBox.
It is a signal about how a host treats visitors, not a requirement for a good VPS. What an onion service is, and how it works, is explained in What is an onion service, and how does it work?.
Because you decide what runs on the server. Full KVM virtualization: your own kernel, your own firewall rules and your own disk encryption if you set it up. Root over SSH. Paste a public key at checkout and password login stays switched off; leave it empty and the team sets a temporary root password, shown in your dashboard, that you change at first login.
A shared account or a container you cannot configure limits what you can lock down. Disk encryption, your own firewall rules and your own kernel are all yours on a full KVM server.
Gloamport is not private in every respect, and these are the limits.
For email-free signup the comparison is on Can I get a VPS without an email address?, and a wider ranking is on What is the best no-KYC VPS in 2026?.
Ember $3.74, Dusk $5.25, Gloam $8.25, Night $13.50, Aurora $20.62, Halo $25.87, Nebula $42.04 and Zenith $116.25 a month on the 12-month term ($7.48, $10.50, $16.50, $27.00, $41.24, $51.74, $84.08 and $232.50 a month on 1 or 3 months; plans under $15 a month (Ember and Dusk) are sold for 3 months at least).
Ember · 1 vCPU · 1 GB RAM
$7.48
$22.44 for 3 months
$7.48 a month
$22.44 for 3 months
$5.98 a month
$35.90 for 6 months
$3.74 a month
$44.88 for 1 year
6 months $35.90 (−20%)1 year $44.88 (−50%)
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Dusk · 1 vCPU · 2 GB RAM
$10.50
$31.50 for 3 months
$10.50 a month
$31.50 for 3 months
$8.40 a month
$50.40 for 6 months
$5.25 a month
$63 for 1 year
6 months $50.40 (−20%)1 year $63 (−50%)
Gloam · 2 vCPU · 4 GB RAM
$16.50
$16.50 a month
$49.50 for 3 months
$13.20 a month
$79.20 for 6 months
$8.25 a month
$99 for 1 year
3 months $49.506 months $79.20 (−20%)1 year $99 (−50%)
Night · 4 vCPU · 8 GB RAM
$27
$27 a month
$81 for 3 months
$21.60 a month
$129.60 for 6 months
$13.50 a month
$162 for 1 year
3 months $816 months $129.60 (−20%)1 year $162 (−50%)
Aurora · 8 vCPU · 16 GB RAM
$41.24
$41.24 a month
$123.72 for 3 months
$32.99 a month
$197.95 for 6 months
$20.62 a month
$247.44 for 1 year
3 months $123.726 months $197.95 (−20%)1 year $247.44 (−50%)
Halo · 12 vCPU · 32 GB RAM
$51.74
$51.74 a month
$155.22 for 3 months
$41.39 a month
$248.35 for 6 months
$25.87 a month
$310.44 for 1 year
3 months $155.226 months $248.35 (−20%)1 year $310.44 (−50%)
Nebula · 16 vCPU · 32 GB RAM
$84.08
$84.08 a month
$252.24 for 3 months
$67.26 a month
$403.58 for 6 months
$42.04 a month
$504.48 for 1 year
3 months $252.246 months $403.58 (−20%)1 year $504.48 (−50%)
Zenith · 32 vCPU · 64 GB RAM
$232.50
$232.50 a month
$697.50 for 3 months
$186 a month
$1,116 for 6 months
$116.25 a month
$1,395 for 1 year
3 months $697.506 months $1,116 (−20%)1 year $1,395 (−50%)
In every plan: No KYC, email optional · Root over SSH · NVMe storage · IPv4 + IPv6 /64 · Full KVM · No setup fee
The signup form and the ID rule together. If a host asks for a name, an address and an ID document, no later setting can remove them.
The payment is off the public ledger. Monero keeps a payment off the public record, but not out of your account: Gloamport still links your orders, the IP addresses of your VPS and the transaction ID you declare to your account number.
It shows that the host runs a service for Tor visitors. It does not change what the host asks at signup or how it handles payments.
Read what the host asks and how it takes payment first. Gloamport lets you pick Reykjavik (Iceland), Bucharest (Romania) and Amsterdam (Netherlands): every plan in every city, at the same price.
Yes. Each one is on the host’s public signup, payment and terms pages, and the sources below link to the pages read on 10 November 2026.
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