Tor relay & exit hosting in Iceland

Tor relays, bridges and exits on a network that publishes its abuse posture and won't pull the plug after one boilerplate notice.

Iceland: Foreign DMCA notices have no statutory effect. Court orders require Icelandic-court jurisdiction.

See plans from $26.99/mo About Iceland

No KYC DMCA ignored Crypto only 60-second deploy

1 Tbps

DDoS absorption

41s

Median deploy

Reykjavík (IS-RKV)

Datacenter

$26.99

Entry plan / month

Why Iceland

The Iceland case for Tor relay & exit hosting

Iceland sits outside the EU and outside the major MLAT (mutual legal assistance treaty) frameworks that bind most western data centres. The Icelandic Modern Media Initiative (IMMI), passed unanimously in 2010, codifies source protection and a strong free-speech posture into law. Power is geothermal-baseload; cooling is free-air for most of the year. Network reach to Western Europe is excellent (FARICE, DANICE, IRIS submarine cables); to North America via the GreenLand Connect.

Cryptoservers explicitly allows Tor relays, including exit nodes. We respond to legitimate abuse (CSAM, credible threats, phishing) within 48 hours; everything else stays up. Each location publishes its peering and the upstream carriers it announces under our ASN, so you can pick a relay home that won't disappear behind a forwarded DMCA email.

Workload alignment

What Tor relay & exit hosting gets from Iceland

Tor exits are allowed, not just tolerated. Relays included by default in our anycast scrubbing fabric.

1 Tbps DDoS absorption — exits draw the traffic that VPNs draw, plus reflection probes.

IPv4 + /64 IPv6 on every plan. Ed25519 SSH keys; no password auth on our side.

48-hour abuse response window. CSAM and credible-threat content excepted (acted on within 4 hours).

No bandwidth re-billing on overage — you stay on the plan you ordered.

Plans

Tor relay & exit hosting — Iceland plans

Plans below ship from Iceland (Reykjavík (IS-RKV)) by default. Pick the cheapest that matches your projected load — hot-resize is live.

VPS

Growth

AMD EPYC 7443P · Reykjavík (IS-RKV)

4 vCPU
8 GB DDR4 ECC
120 GB NVMe
2.5 Gbps unmetered

$26.99/mo

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VPS

Business

Intel Xeon Gold 6430 · Reykjavík (IS-RKV)

6 vCPU
16 GB DDR5 ECC
240 GB NVMe
5 Gbps unmetered

$39.99/mo

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Dedicated

Shield

AMD EPYC 7313P · Reykjavík (IS-RKV)

16 cores · 32 threads
64 GB DDR4 ECC
2× 1 TB NVMe
1 Gbps unmetered

$79.00/mo

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Sysadmin FAQ

Tor relay & exit hosting in Iceland — questions answered

Are exits really allowed in Iceland, or just unaccompanied silence?

Allowed in writing — see our /aup/. Exits run today across all four jurisdictions; abuse posture is public on /abuse/. We don't require notification before bringing one up, but we appreciate the heads-up so we can pre-empt support tickets if a downstream carrier escalates.

How much bandwidth does a meaningful Tor relay need?

A guard at 10 MB/s sustained moves about 25 TB/month; an exit at the same rate pulls 30–40 TB once you factor in the reverse-path traffic. All our VPS plans ship with unmetered uplinks (1–10 Gbps depending on tier); relays don't hit overage.

What happens when a downstream carrier complains about my exit?

We forward the complaint to your account email with our standard "Tor exit boilerplate" already attached. You ack within 48 hours; we don't take action unless the complaint is CSAM or a credible imminent threat. Same path as any other abuse contact — just a different reply template.

Can I run a hidden service (.onion) on the same node?

Yes. Hidden services don't generate abuse mail (they're inbound from the Tor network, not the open internet) so they're actually a softer load profile than relays or exits.

Do you publish your ASN, peers, and downstream carriers?

Yes — see /network/. AS59264 in Switzerland and Romania, mixed transit elsewhere; full peering matrix is public. You can trace from your own ISP to verify the path lands locally.

Other jurisdictions