Which hosting providers in Asia allow Tor relays?

Which hosting providers in Asia allow Tor exit relays?

Only one surveyed bare-metal seller in Asia allows Tor exits without conditions: Anubiz Host. Its about page names Tor relays and exits among the projects it hosts, and its terms carry no Tor clause. It sells servers in Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo, takes Bitcoin, Monero and other coins, and asks for no ID at signup. In the survey, its cheapest in-stock Hong Kong server with a processor from 2018 or later cost $708.99 a month.

RedSwitches allows exits with a condition attached. Its acceptable use policy bans Tor exit nodes that facilitate abuse of its network or evade its abuse tracking. That is not a blanket ban, but the host alone decides what counts as abuse. RedSwitches had in-stock servers in Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo and Mumbai on the survey date. It takes crypto only through Cryptomus, a processor the UK designated on 8 October 2026.

Which Asian hosts ban Tor relays or exits?

7 of the surveyed sellers ban Tor exits, and three of them ban every kind of Tor relay. GreenCloud, Shinjiru and AbeloHost refuse Tor in any form, middle relays included. Vultr, Zomro and WebHorizon name exit nodes in their bans. Servers.com keeps the right to refuse or suspend anyone using Tor, a VPN or a proxy.

Vultr's rule names exits only. Middle and guard relays fall outside that clause, and Vultr's bare-metal plans come with 10 Gbit/s or faster ports. For a non-exit relay in Singapore or Tokyo, it stays a serious option. For an exit, it is closed.

What does it mean when a host says nothing about Tor?

Silence is not permission. 24 of the 33 sellers have no Tor rule in their terms. Among them are Cherry Servers, KoDDoS, MonoVM, 1Gbits, Leaseweb and OVHcloud.

An exit relay draws abuse complaints, and a host without a written rule decides case by case. In 2019, an operator reported on the Tor relay operators' mailing list that Cherry Servers closed their account over exit nodes. Ask the host in writing before you deploy an exit, and keep the reply.

Which Asian hosts appear on the Tor Project's Good Bad ISPs page?

The Tor Project's community list has few Asian entries, and most are old. The Good Bad ISPs page gathers operators' reports, and the Tor Project warns that parts of it are out of date. Read on 2 November 2026, it lists these hosts for Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan:

• Linode (Akamai), Japan and Singapore: relays and exits allowed with a reduced exit policy; entry dated July 2021.
• Gcore, Hong Kong: relays allowed, exits refused; entry dated May 2024.
• HostHatch, Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan: relays allowed, exits refused; entry dated May 2016.
• SAKURA internet, Japan: no bridges, relays or exits; entry dated December 2025.

Linode is not in our survey, which counts bare-metal sellers only. The same page names seven large hosts to avoid, Hetzner and OVHcloud among them, because they already carry many relays.

How many Tor relays run in Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan?

Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan together carry less than 0.1% of Tor's relay capacity. Tor Metrics listed 9,522 running relays on 2 November 2026 at 11:00 UTC. Only 143 of them were in these three places, and 19 of those had the Exit flag.

Germany alone held 28.98% of the network's consensus weight, and the Netherlands 19.38%. The Tor Project asks operators to pick countries and networks that carry little Tor capacity. On those numbers, East and Southeast Asia is one of the widest gaps on the map. The page on the best server location for users across Asia compares the three cities on other grounds.

What does the Tor Project recommend before running an exit?

Run an exit only where the host agrees in writing, and plan for complaints from day one. The Tor Project's exit guidelines, read on 2 November 2026, set out these steps:

• Get advice from a lawyer in your own jurisdiction; the guidelines say they are not legal advice.
• Use a reduced exit policy, which keeps common services open and closes most other ports.
• Serve an exit notice on port 80; the DirPortFrontPage option does this without a separate web server.
• Give the address a reverse DNS name that shows Tor use, such as tor-proxy.
• Point the WHOIS abuse contact at yourself where the provider allows it.
• Answer complaints quickly; the Tor Project publishes template replies.

Its page on relay types adds that exits carry the greatest legal exposure of all relays. They should not run from home. Middle relays and bridges rarely draw complaints. The law of the city matters too: see how Hong Kong's National Security Law affects hosted websites.

What does a Tor relay need from a rented server?

A whole server sits far above Tor's minimums, so the traffic allowance is the real limit. Tor's relay requirements set a floor of 10 Mbit/s, plus 100 GB of outbound traffic each month. It recommends more than 2 TB. An exit needs 1.5 GB of RAM per Tor instance. Every relay needs a public IPv4 address, and one address takes eight relays at most.

Strait 16 has 16 cores / 32 threads, 64 GB DDR4 ECC and a 1 Gbit/s port with 20 TB per 30 days. It comes with one IPv4 address and an IPv6 /64, so up to eight relays fit on it. A relay pushing a steady 30 Mbit/s each way moves about 19.4 TB in 30 days, in and out together. Tor's AccountingMax option caps what a relay sends and receives in each period.

Can I run a Tor exit relay on a Copperstrait server?

Yes: Tor relays are allowed, exit relays included. Each server is a whole machine in Hong Kong, Singapore or Tokyo, Japan, at the same price in all three cities. Plans and terms are on the Copperstrait pricing page. You pay in crypto. No KYC: you upload no ID, no selfie and no documents, and give no card or phone number. The page on renting a server in Asia without ID checks compares what other hosts ask for.

Three limits matter for an exit:

• Mail: Outgoing port 25 is shut on every server, permanently, to keep spam out; ports 465 and 587 to mail providers work. Tor's default exit policy rejects port 25 anyway.
• Floods: No DDoS mitigation is promised beyond what the datacenter network applies by itself.
• Local law: Copperstrait is operated by DomaineGoat LLC, incorporated in Panama and answerable to Panamanian law only. The datacenter in each city is bound by the law of the place it stands in.

The full rules for relays sit in the Copperstrait acceptable use policy.