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VPS-8 — no-KYC offshore VPS (Iceland, Romania, Monero)

vps-8 — Heavy-duty offshore VPS for traffic-heavy projects. 

xmrcloud-cli provision --plan=vps-8 --region=<is|ro>

Order VPS-8

monthly $64
annual -20% $614
biennial -25% $1152
order vps-8

no-kyc crypto billing (xmr recommended; btc / ltn / ltc / eth / usdt accepted) — why-monero covers the rationale, payments the flow.

xmrcloud-cli spec --plan=vps-8

cpu 8 vCPU (AMD EPYC)
ram 16 GB DDR4 ECC
storage 240 GB NVMe SSD
bandwidth 10 TB / month
port 1 Gbps
virtualization KVM
os Ubuntu, Debian, AlmaLinux, Rocky, Fedora, Whonix
ip 1 × IPv4 + IPv6
ddos-shield 40 Gbps
uptime-sla 99.9%

xmrcloud-cli describe --plan=vps-8

At 8 vCPU and 16 GB RAM, vps-8 is transfer-bound rather than compute-bound for most tenants: a busy onion or clearnet forum, an Elasticsearch / Meilisearch index over tens of thousands of documents, a PeerTube node, or several containerised services sharing the 240 GB NVMe. The 10 TB monthly transfer and 40 Gbps shield are the deciding specs. When capacity — not co-tenancy — is the constraint, vps-16 doubles it; when the hypervisor itself is in your threat model, ds-lite removes it.

xmrcloud-cli regions --plan=vps-8

region country ping flag
is Iceland (Reykjavik) ~38ms FRA --region=is
switzerland Switzerland (Zurich) ~?ms --region=switzerland
netherlands Netherlands (Amsterdam) ~?ms --region=netherlands
ro Romania (Bucharest) ~28ms FRA --region=ro
moldova Moldova (Chișinău) ~?ms --region=moldova
bulgaria Bulgaria (Sofia) ~?ms --region=bulgaria
russia Russia (Moscow) ~?ms --region=russia
panama Panama (Panama City) ~?ms --region=panama

after you click order 

xmrcloud-cli provision --plan=vps-8 --region=is
[ok] reserving capacity in region=is
[ok] node allocated: vps-8-is-17
[ok] applying hardened-by-default profile (sshd, fail2ban, unattended-upgrades)
[ok] base image bootstrapped (Debian 12)
[ok] handoff key sealed → view via the console at /console
provisioned in 47s. ssh access via onion-auth or wireguard, your choice.

you receive the onion-auth key + initial sshd config in the same handoff. no email-shipped credentials. nothing is logged to the operator side.

cat /etc/xmrcloud/baseline.d/*

Every VPS-8 ships with the xmrcloud hardening baseline applied on the first boot — no opt-in flag, no add-on, no separate purchase. The baseline is the same across the catalog (vps / dedicated / gpu / tor / i2p / lokinet); category-specific extras are listed below the common section. Detailed per-control runbooks live in /docs; the cross-cutting overview is at /hardening.

  • KERNEL. KSPP-baseline sysctls applied (kernel.kptr_restrict=2, kernel.yama.ptrace_scope=1, kernel.unprivileged_bpf_disabled=1, vm.unprivileged_userfaultfd=0, net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies=1, +12 more), unprivileged user-namespace creation gated, kexec disabled at runtime. Full list and rationale: /docs/kernel-hardening-checklist.
  • SSHD. PasswordAuthentication no, ChallengeResponseAuthentication no, KbdInteractiveAuthentication no, PermitRootLogin prohibit-password, MaxAuthTries 3, Ed25519-only host keys (RSA host keys removed), legacy KEX / cipher / MAC families disabled. fail2ban preconfigured with the sshd-default ruleset. Runbook: /docs/harden-sshd; key migration: /docs/ssh-key-migration.
  • AUDIT. auditd enabled with the laurel-compatible default ruleset (auth, identity, network-config, time-change, mount, perm-mod). unattended-upgrades on for main/security only — feature releases stay operator-controlled. systemd-journald persistent storage with SystemMaxUse=512M.
  • NETWORK. Egress-default-permit (the box reaches the internet), ingress-default-deny (only sshd + the customer's declared services). Outbound port 25 (SMTP) closed by default; customers operating a real MTA request the lift via /contact with the reverse-DNS pointing to a domain they control. Dual-stack IPv4 + IPv6 (/64 routed). RIPE- allocated PI on Iceland and Romania.
  • MONITORING. node_exporter (Prometheus textfile exporter) listening on 127.0.0.1:9100 — the operator's monitoring scrapes via wireguard from the management VLAN, never from the public internet. Customers wanting their own metrics tap add a second exporter on a private interface.
  • VPS HEADROOM. KVM virtualization, dedicated vCPU allocation (no oversold cores), local NVMe, 1 IPv4 + IPv6 /64 routed to the guest, console access via the customer panel for emergency reinstall without a support ticket.

the baseline is editorial-stable — when the operator changes a default, the change is logged in /notes with the rationale and the migration notes for boxes already in service. /hardening is the canonical pillar; /docs is the procedural manual.

grep -l 'vps-8' /usr/share/doc/xmrcloud/playbook/

  • /playbook/scrapingstable-asn vps for ethical crawling: clean ip reputation, generous egress, no per-target rate limits
  • /playbook/forumdiscourse / lemmy / phpbb at offshore latency — narrow-takedown jurisprudence and no first-strike termination
  • /playbook/crypto-noderun a btc/eth/xmr/lightning node or pos validator on hardware you control, in a crypto-neutral jurisdiction

faq -p vps-8

Is vps-8 enough for a search index over tens of thousands of documents?

Yes — 8 vCPU and 16 GB comfortably run Elasticsearch or Meilisearch over a corpus in the tens of thousands, with the 240 GB NVMe holding the index and source docs. Corpora past ~100k documents, or with heavy OCR/thumbnail caches, start to want vps-16's 32 GB or a dedicated box for deterministic indexing latency.

Is vps-8's 10 TB transfer enough for a PeerTube or media node?

For a moderate audience, yes — 10 TB monthly serves a steady stream of mid-bitrate video or a busy forum with media. A back-catalogue drawing sustained concurrent viewers is transfer-bound and wants vps-16 (20 TB) or a dedicated tier with a 10 Gbps uplink like ds-pro. Transfer is the deciding spec at this tier, not CPU.

vps-8 or ds-lite?

If the constraint is capacity, vps-8 is fine — it's virtualised, provisioned fast, and cheaper. If the constraint is threat model — you don't want a shared hypervisor or co-tenant side-channels in scope — ds-lite puts you on bare metal at a comparable price with RAID-1 NVMe. The decision is co-tenancy, not horsepower.

Where is the VPS hosted?

Iceland (Reykjavik, RIPE) or Romania (Bucharest, RIPE) — the customer picks at checkout. Both are inside the European Economic Area for GDPR purposes; Iceland is outside the EU and has no DMCA equivalent (the closest analog is Höfundalög nr. 73/1972, which does not provide a takedown-without-court-order procedure). Romania transposes the EU 2001/29/EC copyright directive via Legea nr. 8/1996. The detailed jurisdictional comparison is at /vs/iceland-vs-romania-offshore-jurisdiction.

Do I need to pay in Monero?

No. XMR is recommended (chain-analytics-resistant) but the OxaPay processor accepts BTC, Lightning, LTC, ETH, and USDT (Tron / Polygon / ETH). The trade-off is documented at /why-monero — transparent rails are accepted because not every threat model weights chain-analytics privacy the same way. No card surface, no fiat rail, no KYC bridge.

Is KYC required at signup?

No. The signup form asks for an email address (used for the receipt and the password-reset flow) and a password. No real-name field, no government-ID upload, no address verification, no phone-number prompt. The email address can be a pseudonym at any provider that accepts a Tor exit; the Mailbox.org / Riseup / Protonmail combinations are compatible with the verification flow.

What does "hardened by default" actually mean?

Every VPS ships with the KSPP kernel-hardening baseline applied (kernel.kptr_restrict=2, kernel.yama.ptrace_scope=1, vm.unprivileged_userfaultfd=0, etc.), sshd configured per the OpenSSH hardening guide (PasswordAuthentication no, ChallengeResponseAuthentication no, MaxAuthTries 3, Ed25519-only host keys), fail2ban active on sshd with default ruleset, auditd enabled, unattended-upgrades on for security packages. Documented in full at /docs/kernel-hardening-checklist and /docs/harden-sshd.

Can I run a Tor relay or VPN on this VPS?

Yes. The AUP (/legal/aup) explicitly permits Tor relays (middle, exit, bridge), I2P routers, Lokinet nodes, and self-hosted VPN endpoints (WireGuard, OpenVPN, etc.). Operating an exit node is permitted; the customer publishes their own ContactInfo on the relay descriptor for upstream-network coordination. The xmrcloud operator does not process third-party abuse reports against tenant traffic — see /contact 'WHAT WE DO NOT PROCESS'. For dedicated Tor hosting, /node/tor-hidden-service is the preconfigured tier.

Can I get a refund?

Yes — the refund policy at /legal/refund covers a 7-day window from the order. Refunds are returned in the same currency as the original payment to a customer-supplied address; for XMR orders this means XMR back to a wallet the customer controls. No fiat off-ramp on either side; no exchange-KYC introduced by the refund flow. Per-order subaddresses (XMR) are derived from the operator view-key per MRL-0006.

order vps-8

no-kyc crypto billing (xmr recommended; btc / ltn / ltc / eth / usdt accepted) — why-monero covers the rationale, payments the flow.

ls /guide