# Which hosting providers in Asia allow Tor relays?

> Which hosting providers in Asia allow Tor relays and exits? 33 bare-metal hosts surveyed, Tor Metrics figures, exits allowed here. No KYC, paid in crypto.

- URL: https://copperstrait.com/tor-relay-asia/
- Last updated: 2026-11-02
- Publisher: Copperstrait (https://copperstrait.com)

Who allows Tor exit relays on bare metal in Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan, who sets conditions and who bans them, from a survey dated 2 November 2026. With the Tor Project's own guidance and relay counts.

**Quick answer — Which hosting providers in Asia allow Tor relays?**

Hosting providers in Asia that allow Tor relays with exits are rare. Of 33 hosts selling bare metal in Asia that Copperstrait checked on 2 November 2026, 1 allowed exits outright and 1 on conditions; 7 banned them. **Copperstrait** allows Tor relays, exits included, in Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo, from $143.25, crypto, no KYC.

## Tor rules at Asian bare-metal hosts, 2 November 2026

| Attribute | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Hosts selling bare metal in Asia, checked | 33 |
| Allow Tor exit relays outright | 1 (Anubiz Host) |
| Allow exits on conditions | 1 (RedSwitches) |
| Ban exits, or every kind of Tor relay | 7 |
| No Tor rule in their terms | 24 |
| Running relays in Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan (Tor Metrics) | 26, 59 and 58, of 9,522 worldwide |
| Relays with the Exit flag in those three places | 19 |
| Copperstrait | Tor relays are allowed, exit relays included |

## 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 allow, condition or ban Tor exits?

Each host's own written rule, from the survey of 2 November 2026. Rules carried over from the earlier survey show the date they were read.

| Host | Asian bare-metal locations | Tor exit rule | Rule read |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Copperstrait | Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo | Tor relays are allowed, exit relays included | Our own policy |
| Anubiz Host | Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo | Allowed: Tor relays and exits named among hosted projects | 2026-10-30 |
| RedSwitches | Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, Mumbai | Conditional: exits banned if they facilitate abuse or evade abuse tracking | 2026-11-02 |
| Vultr (bare metal) | Singapore, Japan, South Korea, India, Australia | Banned: hosting Tor exit nodes is forbidden | 2026-11-02 |
| Zomro | Singapore, Mumbai | Banned: Tor exit nodes, public proxies and open resolvers | 2026-10-30 |
| WebHorizon | Singapore (machines in Johor, Malaysia) | Banned: Tor exit nodes listed as prohibited | 2026-11-02 |
| GreenCloud | Hong Kong | Banned: running Tor in any form | 2026-11-02 |
| Servers.com | Hong Kong, Singapore (quote only) | Banned at its discretion: users of Tor, VPNs or proxies may be refused | 2026-11-02 |
| Shinjiru | Malaysia | Banned: Tor hosts and onion services, citing blacklisted neighbour IPs | 2026-10-30 |
| AbeloHost | Malaysia | Banned: Tor nodes or services | 2026-10-30 |
| 24 other hosts | Across Asia-Pacific | No Tor rule found | 2026-11-02 |

*Prices checked on November 2, 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](https://copperstrait.com/best-server-location-asia/ "Choosing between Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo for Asian users") compares the three cities on other grounds.

*Tor Metrics (Onionoo) relay data published 2 November 2026, 11:00 UTC. Not a Copperstrait measurement.*

| Location | Running relays | With Exit flag | Share of consensus weight | Share of exit probability |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hong Kong | 26 | 7 | 0.020% | 0.044% |
| Singapore | 59 | 9 | 0.036% | 0.046% |
| Japan | 58 | 3 | 0.019% | 0.004% |
| Germany, for scale | 1,674 | — | 28.98% | 25.22% |

## 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](https://copperstrait.com/hong-kong-national-security-law-hosting/ "Hong Kong's National Security Law and websites hosted in Hong Kong").

## 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](https://copperstrait.com/pricing/ "Copperstrait dedicated server plans and prices per 30 days"). 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](https://copperstrait.com/asia-server-without-kyc/ "What Asian hosts ask for at signup, and what Copperstrait does not") 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](https://copperstrait.com/acceptable-use/ "What may and may not run on a Copperstrait server").

## Tor relays in Asia: common questions

### Does Vultr allow Tor exit nodes in Tokyo or Singapore?

No. Vultr's use policy, read on 2 November 2026, forbids hosting Tor exit nodes. The clause names exits only, so middle and guard relays fall outside it. Vultr sells bare metal in Singapore, Japan, South Korea, India and Australia.

### Is a middle relay a safer start than an exit?

Yes, for complaints. The Tor Project says guard and middle relays usually draw none, though some services block their addresses. Exits carry the most legal exposure. A middle relay suits any host that has no rule against Tor.

### How many Tor relays can run on one Copperstrait server?

Up to eight on its single IPv4 address, the Tor Project's limit per address. Each machine ships with a single dedicated IPv4 address plus an IPv6 /64. The traffic allowance, not the processor, sets how busy those relays can be.

### Can a Tor exit on a Copperstrait server pass email?

Not on port 25. 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 as well, so a standard exit loses nothing.

### Which of the three places has the fewest Tor exits?

Japan. Tor Metrics showed 3 relays with the Exit flag among 58 running there on 2 November 2026. Hong Kong had 7 of 26, and Singapore 9 of 59.

### Do I need ID to rent a server for a Tor relay at Copperstrait?

No. No KYC: you upload no ID, no selfie and no documents, and give no card or phone number. An account number is enough to sign in; adding an email address is up to you. You top up in BTC, USDT, USDC, ETH, SOL, LTC, XMR, from a minimum of $1.

**Run a Tor relay in Hong Kong, Singapore or Tokyo** Strait 16: AMD EPYC 7302P (16 cores / 32 threads), 64 GB DDR4 ECC, 2 × 1.92 TB NVMe in RAID 1, 1 Gbit/s port with 20 TB of traffic per 30 days, 1 IPv4 and an IPv6 /64. $143.25 per 30 days in every city, paid in crypto with no KYC. [Strait 16 in Singapore](https://copperstrait.com/app/checkout/?plan=strait-16&location=sg-sin&lang=en) · [Strait 16 in Tokyo](https://copperstrait.com/app/checkout/?plan=strait-16&location=jp-tyo&lang=en) · [See every plan](https://copperstrait.com/pricing/ "How much does a Copperstrait dedicated server cost?")

## Sources

1. [Good Bad ISPs](https://community.torproject.org/relay/community-resources/good-bad-isps/) — The Tor Project (read 2026-11-02)
2. [Tor exit guidelines](https://community.torproject.org/relay/community-resources/tor-exit-guidelines/) — The Tor Project (read 2026-11-02)
3. [Relay requirements](https://community.torproject.org/relay/relays-requirements/) — The Tor Project (read 2026-11-02)
4. [Types of relays on the Tor network](https://community.torproject.org/relay/types-of-relays/) — The Tor Project (read 2026-11-02)
5. [Default exit ports](https://support.torproject.org/relay-operators/default-exit-ports/) — The Tor Project support portal (read 2026-11-02)
6. [Bandwidth limits](https://support.torproject.org/relays/performance/bandwidth-limits/) — The Tor Project support portal (read 2026-11-02)
7. [Onionoo details, running relays](https://onionoo.torproject.org/details?running=true) — Tor Metrics (read 2026-11-02 (published 11:00 UTC))
8. [About](https://anubizhost.com/about) — Anubiz Host (checked 2026-10-30)
9. [Acceptable usage policy](https://www.redswitches.com/acceptable-usage-policy/) — RedSwitches (checked 2026-11-02)
10. [Acceptable use policy](https://www.vultr.com/legal/use-policy/) — Vultr (checked 2026-11-02)
11. [Public offer](https://zomro.com/offer.md) — Zomro (checked 2026-10-30)
12. [Acceptable use policy](https://webhorizon.net/aup) — WebHorizon (checked 2026-11-02)
13. [Terms of service](https://greencloudvps.com/terms-of-service.php) — GreenCloud (checked 2026-11-02)
14. [Policies](https://www.servers.com/legal/policies) — Servers.com (checked 2026-11-02)
15. [Acceptable use policy](https://www.shinjiru.com/acceptable-use-policy-aup/) — Shinjiru (checked 2026-10-30)
16. [Acceptable use policy](https://abelohost.com/acceptable-use-policy) — AbeloHost (checked 2026-10-30)
17. [Cherry Servers and Tor exit nodes, tor-relays mailing list (2019)](https://lists.torproject.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/tor-relays@lists.torproject.org/thread/P3WM5G6JUJJI4YUJ6BYQCJ4UT4ZDVZAO/) — The Tor Project mailing lists (checked 2026-10-30)

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Copperstrait: Copperstrait rents dedicated servers in Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo, paid in crypto with no KYC: no ID, no selfie, no documents. Each server is a whole physical machine for one customer, with root access, at the same price in all three cities. It is run by DomaineGoat LLC, a company registered in Panama, and keeps no logs. Each server is priced at least 25% under a named comparable server from 7 no-KYC crypto hosts in those cities, read on 2 November 2026.