Provider request: ghostvps
Where do you provide services?
18 cities across 12 countries: Australia, Canada, Germany, Finland, France, India, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Singapore, UK, USA. Capacity is rented from DigitalOcean and OVHcloud — I'm a reseller, not a network operator.
What sort of services do you offer?
VPS hosting paid in Bitcoin, Monero and USDT (TRC20). No KYC, no bank card, no email required. Prepaid balance billed hourly. Panel, API and Telegram bot, plus a Tor onion service for the whole site including payment pages.
Are you a registered company or a sole trader?
Sole trader — one person, not a registered company.
Company registration number (if applicable)
None — not a registered company.
What is your website?
Tell us about your company, yourself and your services
Hi all — ghostvps here. Some of you have seen my OVH benchmark thread; this is the formal introduction.
What it is
GhostVPS (ghostvps.shop) — VPS hosting paid in Bitcoin, Monero and USDT (TRC20), with no KYC and no bank card. Also reachable as a Tor onion service, panel and payment pages included. Currently 18 cities in 12 countries.
I'm a reseller, and I'd rather say so up front. Servers are provisioned on DigitalOcean and OVHcloud capacity. That means you pay more than going direct — what you get instead is that you never hand over an identity or a card. If that trade isn't worth it to you, going direct genuinely is the better deal, and I'd rather you know that now than feel misled later.
Billing
Prepaid balance, billed hourly against it. No subscriptions, no card on file, no invoice chasing — when the balance runs out, the server stops.
Size and age, honestly
One person, and new: the service opened in June 2026, so about three months. I'm a sole trader, not a registered company, and I'm small. I'd rather you hear that from me than work it out later.
The forum rules warn against buying yearly deals from companies younger than a year, and I think that's sound. I don't sell yearly plans and I'd be uneasy taking a year's money from anyone at this stage. Hourly prepaid means you're never exposed for more than what you've topped up.
Abuse handling
This is the part that matters most for a no-KYC host, so it's written down rather than promised in a forum post:
Acceptable Use Policy: https://ghostvps.shop/legal/acceptable-use
How abuse reports are handled: https://ghostvps.shop/legal/abuse
Privacy Policy — what data exists at all: https://ghostvps.shop/legal/privacy
Short version: zero tolerance for CSAM, network attacks, malware and C2, phishing and trafficking — immediate termination, no refund, logs preserved. No spam, no mass scanning, no mining. And explicitly, §1 of the AUP makes breaching an upstream provider's own AUP a breach of mine, because their tolerance is what the whole thing rests on.
Abuse reports: [email protected]. Legal requests: [email protected].
Jurisdiction and legal requests
I don't publish where I'm based, and I'd rather say that plainly than give a vague answer that looks like one.
What I can tell you is the part that actually affects you:
The law that governs your server is the law of the datacentre it sits in — you choose the region, so you choose that.
The upstreams are DigitalOcean and OVHcloud, and their AUPs apply to your server whatever I think about it.
Valid, lawful requests get a response. But the honest limit is that I hold almost nothing to give: no name, no ID, no address, no card. The Privacy Policy lists what does exist, line by line — account token, balance ledger, server metadata, on-chain payment data, and time-limited technical logs.
If that's not enough for you, that's a reasonable position and I'm not going to argue you out of it.
If an upstream terminates me
I run on two upstreams, and they're genuinely separate accounts — different email, different payment card, no shared billing. Losing one does not take the other with it.
What that does and doesn't buy you, because the distinction matters more than the reassurance:
Capacity survives. If one upstream closed me tomorrow, the other still works and you could bring a server back up there.
Your data does not move. I don't hold backups of your server — that's in the Privacy Policy and it's true here too. Coming back up on the other provider means a new IP and restoring from your backup. If you don't have one, the data is gone. Keep backups; that's worth more than anything I can promise in this post.
Unspent balance gets refunded. You send an address, I return what's left.
Whatever notice I get, you get. Realistically that could be none — upstream terminations are often immediate. I'm not going to promise a window I don't control.
A reseller who tells you they can guarantee continuity is telling you something they can't deliver. Two upstreams is redundancy of capacity, not of your data.
What I'm here for
Mostly the tag, so I can post offers in the right place instead of skirting the rules. Beyond that I like this forum and I'll keep posting benchmark data whether or not the tag happens — the OVH and DigitalOcean accounts are open anyway, so if there's a region or flavour you want numbers from, ask.
Happy to answer anything.
Comments
My only concern is that it doesn't seem sustainable, especially for a privacy-oriented service. OVH and DO aren't very spectacular for reselling either. I can't see anything disagreeable in the AUP or ToS though.
How long have you been in the hosting industry? I know you said you started this project in June, but surely you have prior experience in some way?
why is it so hard for providers to apply on LES?
I find that LES users don't like "obvious" AI without knowing that the person behind the script is competent already
Michael from DragonWebHost & OnePoundEmail
I hope OP doesn't ghost us and actually answers asked questions. That's the main thing holding me back from voting.
I am not sure if I understand?
Do you mean the process is hard or that it is hard to be accepted?
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My personal opinion is that any person who has never been involved in obvious criminal activities, scamming, multiple deadpools without informing clients type of exit scams etc should be allowed to sell after providing some basic information like business name, business domain, which billing system they use, experience in the industry etc This community has lot of intelligent people who are capable of weeding out the rotten eggs.
Again, that is my personal opinion only and every member has the right to disagree with me as they are entitled to their opinions only.
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Yeah that's what we do here, if anything I made it easier for providers to sell now than ever, so this comment about it being hard threw me.
Previously we did not accept sole traders, you had to provide a lot of information etc, it could take weeks or months to get approved.
Now, you start a post, give as much or as little information as you want, go through a fairly short process with a human filter and you can sell.
What I have observed is that:
Human written applications that make some effort get through very quickly.
Low effort ones take much longer and end up in 20 questions.
AI written ones like this with a bit of a twist to the business model given cause for concern which is natural.
Personally I wouldn't say it's hard, I would just say effort = reward when applying.
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Good questions, thanks. Happy to answer.
On my experience: I've been a backend dev for 20 years. Over that time I've set up and bought quite a few servers, but always for personal use or my own projects. I've never sold hosting before. This is my first time doing it, started in June, so about three months ago.
I'd rather be honest about that than make it sound bigger than it is.
On sustainability: You're right, no argument there. At this size it's not really a full business. It just covers its costs, and that's it. One thing I'd add is that the payment model keeps your risk low too. It's hourly and prepaid, so you only risk what you've already loaded onto your account. No annual plans or subscriptions.
On OVH and DO not being ideal for reselling: I agree. I actually said that in my post. Buying direct is cheaper, and I tell everyone that. What I'm selling isn't better hardware. The advantage is you don't need to give personal ID or credit card details.
On my technical skills: I built the user panel, billing system, and Telegram bot myself. I didn't use something like WHMCS. That benchmark topic kind of shows this from another angle—there are real numbers and data there, including a case where I had to change my own conclusion.
Happy to answer anything else too.
Perhaps there should be a short delay between the post being submitted and the votes being cast. It would give the provider more time to answer questions. Otherwise it seems like the provider could go to sleep and wake up to a denied application before ever getting to respond.
English may not be a person's native language; therefore, they use artificial intelligence to improve their writing and convey their intended meaning more effectively.
Well, there is no specific limit on what they can offer in advance, and anyone can change their vote.
I am honestly not sure what adding a delay would do functionally, maybe I misunderstood?
Also keep in mind, they can request a tag again in a week if they want, nothing stopping multiple attempts.
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