GoodBadISPs

This page aims to list community experiences with Tor and various Internet Service Providers (ISPs) around the world. Some ISPs are Tor-friendly, some are not. Some are competent and clueful about Tor or about security in general. Let us know!

Be sure to provide useful information like how much bandwidth you pushed, whether you thought the deal was cheap or expensive, how hard you had to work to make them understand what's going on, how long your server has been running, and whether you'd recommend them to others. Also include dates.

Since non-exits do not attract complaints, it should be fine to run them without contacting the hoster first. Make sure you understand their policies regarding bandwidth, especially on "unlimited" (fair use) contracts. For exit relays, you should read the fine TorExitGuidelines first.

For network diversity and stronger anonymity, you should avoid providers and countries that already attract a lot of Tor capacity. compass is a great tool that allows you to group probabilities by country and AS (autonomous systems), so you can more easily identify networks you want to avoid.

Note: This page is currently being revamped. If you would like to help out please see Ticket #13421

Proposed ISPs

The table below contains some community-suggested ISPs which have yet to be contacted and/or evaluated on their policies towards Tor hosting of any kind. If you have seen a host and would like to suggest it to us, but do not have the time or confidence to reach out, please do leave their website information below.

Good experiences

US

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Austria

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Bulgaria

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Dominica

• relay [+] exit [+] NiceVPS Crypto accepted, anonymous (register only with mail), unlimited bandwith. Correspondence (12/31/2019)

Germany

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United Kingdom

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• relay [+] exit [+] Clustered.net has nothing against Tor nodes in principle, but warned that they'd asked me to stop if a large number of abuse reports were received. My fast/stable exit node's been running there for three months now with no hassle.
• relay [+] exit [+] Gigatux has graciously allowed me to run a Tor relay for over a year and a half with no problems. They actually run their own relay named 'gigatux'. Customer support has been very good as well, and they have helped me handle two abuse complaints admirably. They also offer servers in the US, Germany, and Israel. -Blackpaw
• relay [+] exit [+] Bitfolk allows Tor exits and relays. They are very knowledgable and understand Tor and its uses. They are hot on spam and abuse so advise changing the default exit (good idea in the UK anyhow). Any DMCA notices received were simply forwarded on without agro.
• relay [+] exit [?] RapidSwitch has nothing against relays. I'm running 2 servers with them without problems. (fusl, 07/2014)

France

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Finland

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Hungary

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Iceland

• relay [+] exit [+] 1984Hosting Has no problems with Tor, asked directly and was told they are fine with them. Fairly cheap as well. --Maquis196
• relay [+] exit [+] FlokiNET (AS200651). Tor Nodes are welcome, also on VPS (be aware of the bandwith limit in Iceland) Sponsor enn.lu and saveyourprivacy exit nodes.
• relay [+] exit [+?] orangewebsite - "Yes you're able to use ToR with VPS server(s). There is no restrictions for that."

Italy

• relay [+] exit [+] Fastweb (ISP, 2M customers) No issues experienced from 10/10 Mbps fiber connection. TOS say nothing, a certified email (PEC) notice that an exit node was being operated got no answer.
• relay [+] exit [-] Prometeus Middle relays are fine, exits are forbidden by TOS. "A relay only Tor node or similar software which only allows traffic to other nodes is OK. For example, Freenet is allowed."
• relay [+] exit [+] ArubaCloud by Aruba. They stated that you can install Tor on their machines since Tor does not violates thier terms. TOS generically indicate that the operator is responsible for all the activities on the machine. Running a middle relay was completely fine. It is possible to operate an exit but abuse complaint handling often involves being contacted by their call center (speaking Italian), so you need to provide your phone number. See a more detailed account.
• relay [+] exit [+] SelfServer by Enter. Cheap VPS, unconfortable due to old CentOS 6.10, NATed IPv4-only networking, ports other than the well-known are filtered. But performances are OK. Running middle relay is OK. Exit OK, aubse complaints need to go through their support service, and sometimes by temporary vps suspension, but everything can be handled by tickets, and they are helpful and ready. (null, 11/2018)

Moldova

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• relay [+] exit [+] AlexHost Both exit and regular relays are allowed on their VPS/VDS packages (which are cheap and 100 Mb/s) as confirmed by e-mail. Currently testing speed so will add results later. (bbln, 07/21/2014)

Netherlands

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• relay [+] exit [+] John Brooks runs a 2TB node at LeaseWeb. He would recommend them for running a relay. -- JensKubieziel. In a mail to Tor-talk, a LeaseWeb employee (Alex de Joode) offered his help to sort out complaints regarding Tor.
• relay [+] exit [-] Netrouting has no problems with Tor Update 2014-10-15 ISP has confirmed by e-mail that exit nodes are NOT acceptable.
• relay [+] exit [?] DirectVPS has no problems with Tor
• relay [+] exit [-] Versio was said to have no problems with Tor, but they disabled my Cloudbox VPS anyway. Might have been because it was an exit node... I think they disabled it after an abuse report, but I don't know for sure. They just stated it was against their policy to run "a tor network" (sic), though I can't find anything on proxies or relays in their terms of service. I also went over the bandwidth limit, but that was not given as a reason for disabling the VPS. They even included a screenshot of the top command where tor was running, so it really doesn't seem to be about exceeding the bandwidth. I think as long as you go without abuse complaints (e.g. run an internal relay) and don't exceed the bandwidth limit, they won't notice.

AuroraNet ran an exit with default exit policy on a Versio CloudBox for over 6 months without issue (2013)

• relay [+] exit [+] anonymous CyberBunker has no problems with almost anything you could think of (which would include tor) and customers can remain anonymous.
• relay [+] exit [+] SnelServer does not mention anything about Tor or similar software being run on their servers but after sending an email, they have said customers are welcome to run any software they wish on their servers which is legal in the Netherlands and abuse complaints must be responded to within 24 hours or the system automatically suspends your account until you do. Very reasonable pricing for dedicated servers and I personally run 5 exit nodes with them (350mbps +/- 100mbps) and have had no problems. I would recommend using Tor's boilerplate response for abuse notices. Very reliable network, great support staff, reasonable prices (79 Euro for 20TB out, unlimited traffic in on a dual core dedicated) and they also accept Bitcoin although you do need to submit ID documentation if you plan on purchasing more than 5 servers. (2014)
• relay [+] exit [+] anonymous ChmuraNet allows anoymous users to run tor exits. We've been in close contact and they've started to allow tor exits. Abuse issues will be forwarded. We payed in BTC and remained completely anonymous. Their capacity is limited and we're causing 99% of abuse reports, so they can't handle too many tor exits. It's worth it to ask, though. Make sure to tell them that you're running an exit (obx, 09/14)
• relay [+] exit [+] [https://www.snelserver.com/]Being with SnelServer I'm able to host any applications or software. All works fine with them.

Romania

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• Voxility doesn't allow the hosting of "Anything than can result in Spamhaus listing". They wouldn't say if they allowed Tor exit node hosting explicitly. I didn't want to risk it. Placed in the "Romania" category as I was looking at hosting in Romania. -- December 2013
• Several torservers.net partner orgs happily host exits with Voxility, who recently passed over (some of its?) hosting to Alistaro. Also see 2015 tor-talk thread. -- April 2015
• relay [+] exit [+] m247.ro TOS say nothing about TOR/proxies, customer support answered after explaining what TOR is "it should be fine" (10/25/15). I ran an exit with reduced exit policy for ~2 month without problems. VPS with 512 MB ram ~ 20 Mbit; VPS with 1 GB ram ~ 40 Mbit. (12/14/15) Update: 2020-05-03 Does not "encourage such practices that could lead to abuse complaints. If we will receive such complaints in regards to your VPS, we will need to apply the legal measures, such as suspending your service."
• relay [+] exit [-] JavaPipe offer 1Gbps unmetered VPS plans in Bucharest (Voxility data center). Nothing about TOR/proxies in their TOS or AUP. Running a relay on a VPS for about a month now and no issues so far, support says it's fine. (04/2016)
• relay [+] exit [-] MilesWeb offers managed VPS hosting plans in Romania and also have data centers in USA and UK with 24x7 free support. (03/2017)
• relay [?] exit [-] CryptoHO.ST Run exit node for about a month with reduced policy, service suspended without any notice over abuse claims, but nice speed and lots of crypto payment methods. Probably ok for relay. Correspondence (06/01/2020)

Sweden

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• relay [+] exit [-] HostHatch Allow Tor bridges and Tor relay. But don't allow Tor exits. Their ASN is AS42708. And their provide both OpenVZ and KVM VPS type. OpenVZ is 2TB bandwidth/mo ($4/mo) and KVM is 1TB bandwidth/mo ($5/mo). VPS's ISP is Portlane AB. (2016-05)
• relay [+] exit [?] TeliaSonera is also big in Sweden and deliver where other ISPs can't (They were previously the state monopoly, which they still are, but they now pretend it's free competition while they still own all the fiber). Blocks port 25 for all customers. Does not bother Tor-server operators.
• relay [+] exit [+] PRQ has no problems with Tor exits and abuse forwarding, but at a heavy price...
• relay [+] exit [+] Portlane handles abuse according to "Swedish praxis", and they've never bothered us for operating our colocated Tor exit (partyvan1). They also had no issue setting the reverse DNS and reassigning WHOIS abuse-c contact to us for the assigned /29 IP-address space. Previously provided connectivity for ThePirateBay, OpenBitTorrent tracker et al.
• relay [+] exit [?] Yourserver support team will allow relay/exit but TOR Traffic is throttled to 5Mbps speed once you are able to access the Knowledgebase and read the limitation (2014-10) Update 2014-10-15 ISP has re-confirmed by e-mail that exit nodes are acceptable, but with "strict" exit node policies. Update: 2015-03-06 If your Tor exit relay receive too much complaints, they will ask to you to stop, or otherwise they will suspend. Update: 2020-05-03 Kicks after first abuse message and deletes user account

Switzerland

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• relay [+] exit [+] fsit allows Exit Nodes on KVM-vServer, only 2 TB Transfer which is not upgradeable (Nov 2015).

Latvia

• relay [+] exit [?] Yourserver support team will allow relay/exit but TOR Traffic is throttled to 5Mbps speed once you are able to access the Knowledgebase and read the limitation (2014-10) Update: 2015-03-06 If your Tor exit relay receive too much complaints, they will ask to you to stop, or otherwise they will suspend. Update: 2020-05-03 Kicks after first abuse message and deletes user account

Canada

• relay [+] exit [?] TekSavvy has a server-friendly Internet Use Policy (e.g., running a Tor relay) and has taken a stand in favor of net neutrality. (2008-12)
• relay [+] exit [?] CloudatCost.ca, operated by Fibernetics, has liberal abuse handling policies AUP and does not monitor it's network, however Tor is not explicitly allowed. Seems to not enforce exit nodes, over 8+ exit nodes and 10+ non-exit relays currently in directory as of Feb 2015.
• relay [+] exit [+] oneprovider They are reselling dedicated servers in many locations around the world. They are "vpn firendly" and I'm running several exit realys for a couple of month. Abuse handling differs depending on the provider from which they resell. They are managing the budget deals of online.net which are really good value. (Mai 2016)

Slovenia

• relay [+] exit [+] With Tuš Hosting we had really good experience running a 5 MB/s full-exit Tor on a dedicated server on colocation. They said that they care just that we pay our bills and they just simply forward DMCA notices to us to handle (or ignore) them and forward police to our home doors to question us. I really recommend them and if anybody wants to put another Tor node/server there I am willing to help. Mitar (mitar@tnode.com)

Ukraine

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• relay [+] exit [+] Colocall allows Tor exits

Lithuania

• relay [+] exit [+] Baltic Servers been running a Tor exit node for several months. All abuse mails they got yielded support tickets, and in each one I stated running a Tor exit node and having taken action when possible. Also not having taken action seems not to have been a problem yet (in cases where forumspam or port 80 SQL injection probers were involved). If I do get shut down I'll ask if they have a policy regarding Tor or a maximum of abuse reports.

New Zealand and Australia

• relay [+] exit [-] HostHatch Allow Tor bridges and Tor relay. But don't allow Tor exits. Their VPS location is: Sydney, AU - Equinix IBX SY3 Data Center.Their ISP is:SoftLayer network, which includes primary transit from Telstra and peering with Equinix, Pipe-IX, NSW-IX and Megaport. And their Openvz vps provide 2TB bandwidth/mo (4$/mo). Their ASN number is: AS36351.
• relay [+] exit [+] [http://rimuhosting.com/index.jsp] Quite open to the proposition when approached. Have servers in N.Z.; Sydney; London; and Dallas. Locations may vary, but quite happy with the specific Oz/NZ query. No co-lo, but root access. "You can run anything you like, as long as it's legal." The moving goal-posts of legality are the only concern here.

Hong Kong

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Czech Republic

• relay [+] exit [?] T-Systems has no problem with tor relays (don't know about exits).

Poland

• relay [+] exit [+] Hitme.net.pl has no problems with tor exits. (PayPal)(27/08/2013) Has no problems with any tor activity. (12/06/2017)
• relay [+] exit [?] homecloud.pl Has no problems with relays (don't know about exits). (19/04/2020)
• relay [+] exit [?] Hostowisko.pl has no problems with Tor. (27/08/2013)
• relay [+] exit [?] Exone Allows Tor-servers. Very cheap "mini" accounts, perfect for tor-bridges.(28/08/2013)
• relay [+] exit [?] e24cloud Allows Tor-relays (fast!)(don't know about exits). (PayPal)(01/10/2013)
• relay [+] exit [+] hostinger.pl has no problems with tor exits. (PayPal)(02/10/2013)
• relay [-] exit [-] statnet.pl Allows Tor-relays, servers in Poland and in Germany. (DotPay)(02/10/2013) Just talked with them on the phone. They block Tor activity. (12/06/2017)
• relay [+] exit [+] IQ PL They allow running exit node on my collocated dedicated server.
• relay [+] exit [+] Slask Data Center Has no problems with any tor activity. (21/02/2018) Has no problems with relays (haven't tried running an exit). (19/04/2020)

Mexico

• Axtel: Currently some Guard / Middle nodes are running in Axtel network

Bad experience

=== US ===

• AzzaVPS Ran an exit node July-Nov. 2013. No DMCA Takedown notices or abuse tickets received. Changed the TOS to exclude Tor [sic] without notification and then suspended my account (also without notification). Their gimmick was unlimited bandwidth on a 512MB RAM OpenVZ slice, but my 10-15Mbit up/down was apparently too much. Of the half dozen or so companies I've used for exit nodes over the years, AzzaVPS was the least professional and had the worst support. The deal was cheap @ $7.00/mo. but at that rate they cannot be bothered to communicate effectively.
• www.vpscheap.net/ Ran a bridge for 6+ months they sent multiple tickets on their website but never contacted me via email so I could not respond. They changed the terms of service agreement without notifying me. Very poor experience. They do not understand how Tor works and just blanket ban it.
• Ezzi.net. Running Tor was fine until Undernet mailed Ezzi.net a complaint which falsely claimed Tor was somehow a "botnet". This made a very rude person at Ezzi send a mail which falsely claimed the Tor servers were hacked and "It appears whoever caused this hacked the servers by brute forcing SSH logins and uploading a fake httpd binary and launching it.". This person kept on insisting the servers were hacked after being politely informed that Undernet had confused Tor traffic with a "botnet" and that the servers where not compromised in any way, so it's kind of hard to tell if the person was troublesome because the person did not understand what Tor is or if this person at Ezzi generally just imagines things and think they are part of reality. But it is clear that most ezzi customers become ex-customers after meeting this known-to-be-rude tech.
• LayeredTech are a server hosting company located in Texas. I ran a server for six months without any issues, but then someone used the Tor server to exploit a PHP vulnerability. Explaining the goals of Tor to LayeredTech resulted in it being made clear that I was responsible for any and all abuse through my IP address. Shortly after this they ordered me to shutdown Tor. -- Steve_Crook
• SONIC.NET of Santa Rosa, CA have terms of service that would apparently be Tor-friendly; but this thread http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15272743 includes comments by SONIC.NET's CEO that don't sound particularly friendly or open to the idea of running an exit node.
• Linode will require you to shut down an exit node if it receives repeated abuse complaints. Non-exit relays are allowed. Refused to allocate a second IP address for Tor traffic to shield other services on server from being blocked in China.
• Tektonic will suspend your VPS with no prior notice if you run "any proxy". They used to tolerate Tor if you didn't run an exit node but they are now apparently auditing the VPSs for processes named Tor. They did however restore the VPS very promptly after I promised to uninstall Tor and Privoxy.
• Comcast's Acceptable Use Policy for residential customers says no servers or proxies under "Technical Restrictions" (2009-08-10 tip from Scott Bennett). Starting in 2010, Comcast rebranded their consumer service offerings to the Xfinity name. Public servers are still prohibited under their AUP.
• 100tb.com (Softlayer) allows Tor exits, abuse needs to be addressed within 24 hours. Despite this "policy", my experience was bad. They were very understanding at first when the exit was just made and got about 5 DMCA notices, and replied explaining Tor. A few days later, I got forwarded about 30 DMCAs, and few from Spamcop (even though common mail ports were blocked); as usual, I replied that it's entirely because of Tor, and that I have no pirated content or viruses on my box. Apparently they got fed up with the constant DMCAs, and replied with "More will need to be done to block this. We will not tolerate open abuse of our network (DMCAs and SPAM via a "Tor Exit Node"). This type of service is prone to abuse and tarnishes not only our reputation but your reputation with us. If action is not taken to help prevent this going forward we will be forced to block access to the server". At this point, I set it as a "middleman" instead of an exit, in hopes that it would stop the flow of DMCA notices. Nope, they disabled the interface. I have at this point stopped Tor on the 100tb box, and do not know what to do now. There is no way at all to block all P2P, and 100tb refuses to acknowledge this. They make claims "Tor is ALL RIGHT on 100tb boxes!", but then go and screw you over when you get DMCA notices (it's a when, not an if. Running a Tor exit WILL produce DMCA notices). I highly suggest avoiding these people at 100tb/Hosting Services, Inc./midphase if you are seriously considering running a stable Tor exit. We had a server there for 6 months, but then they told us Softlayer as DC doesn't allow it any longer. (torservers.net)
• M5 Hosting does not explicitly forbid Tor in their AUP but after operating an exit node for 3 weeks and receiving three DMCA complaints, their abuse department communicated, "Whereas Tor exit nodes facilitate unaccountable actions by anonymous users and those actions regularly expose [M5] to undue risk as well as oversight costs and unknowable legal expenses, Tor exit nodes will not be permitted on M5's network" because "just responding to the abuse complaints costs [them] money and it costs money to [their] upstream providers and increase[s] [their] risks of incurring legal defense expenses" and ordered the Tor exit node to be shut down.
• FDCservers allows Tor, and customers to react to abuse within 24 hours before taking further steps. Be cautious if operating an exit node, for the boilerplate abuse responses are "not acceptable" per their Network Security Administrator. He sited the AUP/TOS and stated I have "the full responsibility for the content hosted and passing through the server. So if you cannot track or take actions against reported abuse issues you should terminate or restrict specific service" (which was a single exploitable php script probe).
• Santrex (1) Santrex gave me a poor experience, no abuse was forwarded, and my server was suspended without prior notice. (2) Santrex suspended the vps running an exit Tor node after 1 day telling me that torrenting was not allowed and I was abusing the service. No warning was given. They kept billing my credit card even after having the vps service suspended. (July 2011) (3) Santrex threatened to disconnect my dedicated machine after the second abuse complaint from an exit node. (In their Denver colo, at least, they appear to be subletting from FDCServers.net, mentioned above.) (Nov 2011)
• dreamhost.com Abuse department says Tor violates AUP and should not be run. Also said they had had Tor nodes run before on VPSes and it had caused performance degradation for other VPSes. 6/27/2011
• Mediacom Within one week of running an exit node on their residential service, my account was suspended due to DMCA requests. No requests were forwarded to me. No amount of reasoning/explaination/screaming at them would get them to restore service.
• rethinkvps.com Altough they weren't against Tor exit nodes themselves at first, they run a three strikes policy about abuse complaints from "their datacenter", meaning they themselves could get their machines kicked off. Running a non-exit relay should be fine.
• Chicago VPS First claimed I could host a node as long as I dealt with abuse reports. Then I got an automated abuse mail and I handled it with a proper reply. Then I got a rude threat they would terminate my VPS if this happened again. Not recommended unless you want a host that runs its hands up screaming on every abuse report they get. This abuse mail did not even state the web address this supposed spam/abuse happened but they fully bought it.
• VPSCheap.net Tor not allowed.
• 5ITE Hosting Solutions Tor not allowed. Supposedly forbidden by TOS/AUP even though not directly mentioned
• VPSWebServer.com I've ordered their service, but they sent me my password only after 4 days, after I ordered another service already. I asked them to cancel my order and refund - but they just deleted my account, gave me no refund and they do not reply to my mails.
• owned by http://www.cirtexhosting.com/ Tor not allowed. Even middle nodes violate their TOS/AUP.
• ServerAxis Low-cost VPS provider. (2013-07-13) Began talking to this provider when my current provider wouldn't allocate me a second IP address to separate tor traffic from other server traffic. Their response: "Sorry we consider tor to be an unauthenticated proxy which we do not allow in our acceptable usage policies."
• www.sitevalley.com/ (aka TwinServers) used to allow Tor nodes (early 2012), including Exits, but in July 2013 shut down a non-Exit node and stated that Tor in any form was against their TOS.
• ~~ Psychz.net PhotonVPS.com and Yardvps.com are also their affiliated brands. They're just not smart guys and don't speak English properly at all. Although they don't treat Tor differently but they're just mean about all kinds of abuses. And once your VPS get suspended, it requires a lot of work to get it back to normal. ~~
• atlantic.net doesn't allow exit nor non-exit nodes
• Vultr support initially stated running exit nodes was okay, and then unilaterally changed their mind 6 months later and claimed this had been their position all along.
• solvpsFrom their AuP: "SolVPS strictly prohibits the following uses of its network and services: Hosting Tor servers, relays, and exit nodes." (10/2015)
• bhost Any kind of tor relays forbidden in their TOS (10/2015)
• Namecheap Tor bridges, relays, exits, and other proxying software are against ToS. Confirmed this with Risk Management and customer service. Excellent registrar and host, but I guess they are very cautious. (November 2015)
• NODESERVFrom their AuP.They said don't allowed anykind openproxy software(include tor middle relays and tor exit nodes) to build in their server.
• VPSGODAlthough their front-page said don't any kind tor service in US server only.But if you look their TOS, they also don't allow tor service in other area.(They provide France and Netherlands server as well.)
• Turnkey Internet does not support Tor: "It does not sound like your intended use is a good fit for our network, we would kindly suggest you consider another hosting company".

Netherlands

• [https://bytesized-hosting.com/] doesn't allow tor exit nodes
• [https://cloudvps.com/] does not explicitly deny tor nodes in the Terms of Service, but abuse@ agressively demands removing. Terms include "If i find the service enabled once again we will stop the vps to prevent further problems for other customers" (from abuse@cloudvps.com) and "I hereby conclude that running Tor on our VPS services is not allowed, especially if this impacts our other customers as well." (from servicedesk@cloudvps.com). Precedent in June 2015.

Phobos' research

Notes:

• Unixshell/Tektonic are the same company. They nullroute you on the first abuse complaint. Middleman nodes are ok, but the abuse dept requests "SafeLogging 0" set in your torrc and wants full access to your logs on demand.
• Verizon FiOS officially does not allow any incoming traffic, they reserve the right to disconnect you at any time for violation of this policy. Users have run middleman nodes without any incidents from VZ. Exit nodes with abuse problems have resulted in legal threats and disconnection threats, but no disconnection as of yet.

Australia

• Exigent initially gave permission to run an exit node, but later cancelled.

Austria

(MM/DD/YY) ||

• A1 (former Telekom Austria) Randomly creates DROP rules for Client connections to Guard nodes in their firewall, together with a time-limit after which a rule will be deleted. Those firewall rules are maintained individually for each customer, so one can be affected while it works fine for another one at the same time. When asked they told, that they're doing it "for reasons". When asked again they told, that they're doing it "to discourage the use of the illegal (sic) TOR network".

Germany

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

IMPORTANT UPDATE regarding "Amazon Web Services aka AWS" (23 February 2016) from www.grepmaster.eu: Mr. Christian Spicker (spickerc@amazon.de) wrote (via e-mail) "[sic!] Hallo Herr Kühl,

ich habe für Sie Informationen zu TOR-Nodes eingeholt. Die Antwort bezieht sich auf offene Netzwerk Services, d.h. auch TOR. Nach unserer Auslegung der AWS Nutzungsbedingungen ist die Erstellung eines TOR-Netzwerks leider nicht gestattet, bzw. stellt einen Verstoß gegen unsere Nutzungsbedingungen dar.

Hier die direkte Antwort in Englisch (AUP = acceptable use policy):

Even assuming no Illegal content is accessed, noting the section of the AUP for "No Network Abuse" which says - Prohibited activities include: * Operation of Certain Network Services. Operating network services like open proxies, open mail relays, or open recursive domain name servers. ... I'd think that a Tor exit node is effectively an Open Proxy - anyone can connect via it (Open) and it then makes requests on their behalf (Proxy) ... and therefore would be in breach of the AUP.

Ich hoffe, ich konnte Ihnen weiterhelfen.

BG

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email: spickerc@amazon.com

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• HostEurope:

  I learned today that anonymising services are not allowed anymore. I switched my Exit there to bridge mode.
  Hallo Zönobiarch!
  "... 
  Die entsprechende Stelle, welche den Betrieb eines Tor Exit Nodes auf unseren  Serverprodukten verbietet, finden Sie in unseren AGB unter 
  §16 "Besondere Bedingungen für dedizierte und virtuelle Server, sowie WebPacks und Cloud Hosting" im Abschnitt 1.
  Dort finden Sie den nachfolgenden Text:
  "... §16 Besondere Bedingungen für dedizierte und virtuelle Server, sowie WebPacks und Cloud Hosting
  (1) Die Bereitstellung folgender Dienste ist dem Kunden untersagt: Internet Relay Chat (IRC)-Dienste
    Anonymisierungsdienste
    P2P-Tauschbörsen ..."

Look here: https://www.hosteurope.de/AGB/Allgemeine-Geschaeftsbedingungen/

• netcup GmbH allowed hosting and does not restrict any Tor services at all but everybody should be aware that there can be huge legal consequences if laws are broken. I received this statement from the CEO Mr. Dipl.Ing. Felix Preuss today via mail (goose, 07.11.11)

netcup changed their AGB (sometime around mid 2012) and disallow any tor service. They actively sweep their network for tor traffic and send you abuse notifications, if they find even a tor relay (nichrome, 07.08.2013)

Me and a friend hosted Tor both on our own netcup server a year ago, and the consequences were fatal! They wanted more than 350 EUR for a special effort (disable my and my friends server). We responded with the official EFF statement about Tor. No response from netcup. 1. dun, 2. dun. We went to a lawyer. He wrote them. No response from netcup. 1. collection agency, 2. collection agency. Lawyer responded to them and to netcup. No response from netcup. Finally they gave up. But they NEVER responded to any action me or my friend took. I wouldn't recommend netcup as a Tor friendly provider. NEVER!

I also had a terrible experience with netcup:

The service in it self was not very good. Being artificially limited to 400KB/s is extremely bad, especially when bandwidth was supposedly 'free'.

Inability to cancel something via the internet that I was able to order via the internet. How can I legally enter an agreement over the internet but not exit an agreement? That is ludicrous.

• The german ISP dogado ended up killing the Tor server process and blocking the OR-port on my vServer. -- d00b
• comsitec.de 2/2014 Unlimited data paid a year in advance but frequently off and slow. Ticket responses very poor. AVOID THEM
• The german ISP EuServ / ISPro -- they just broke the contract, switching our Server off. -- padeluun
• EUServ VPS: They have a numtcpsock setting of max 600, not able to run Tor properly. They also exclude it from their TOS. -- August 2013, Torpids
• Manitu forbids any anonymisation techniques in their AGBs --qbi (gamambel: I have asked and they made me an offer for 100mbit dedi at 1500 euro)
• OVH (German ISP) offers root server with a high bandwidth (up to 5.000 kB/s). They changed their AGB and cancel "problematic" contracts very fast. -- qbi
• plusserver.de shut down h07onion due to gross incompetence. Look at http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Mar-2005/msg00120.html for more details.
• "I have recently checked manitu because they advertise with internet without censorship and data retention. Unfortunately they explicitly forbid providing anonymization services in their general terms and conditions. On inquiry they have justified this restriction with the enormous bandwidth consumption and the impossibility to achieve fair combined costing in this case. For the same reason they forbid running mirrors of public data such as open source software. So I believe their argument is no pretense." -- Alex, Dec 01 2009 via email.
• netcup.de suspended one vserver running a Tor exit node, analyzed stuff, and charged 192€ for processing one dmca-notice. - ari
• netdirekt.de "Leider unterstützen wir keine Tor Exits. Sofern diese in unserem Netzwerk sind gab es vermutlich noch keine Vorfälle."
• Strato writes in their AGB "Abschnitt III: Sonderregeln für dedizierte und virtuelle Server ... 1.1 Eine Nutzung der Server zur Bereitstellung folgender Dienste ist ausgeschlossen: ... Anonymisierungsdienste, z.B. Tor, JAP, Proxyserver"
• netcup.de Running a tor relay node with 256 kB/s bandwidth and 600gb traffic limit configured in tor I was moved to a high traffic node after about 8 days or 400 GB traffic usage, at which point the average bandwidth dropped to less than 50 kB/s. I was not notified of this changed but its clearly noticable via vnstat -d and a different cpu usage pattern on the new server (as in 100% all the time).
• Server4You I asked support about Tor and they stated "Tor Dienste sind bei uns ebenfalls aufgrund der rechtlichen Graulage nicht gerne gesehen und werden bei Abuse Aufkommen direkt gekündigt." (March 2011). In April 2012 they turned off my server because "Tor ist illegal in Deutschland" ("Tor is illegal in Germany", according to their support).
• Hetzner has some Tor Exits, but they send an abuse request for each BayTSP request, and you have to respond each. Now (today, 05.09.2011) they disconnected my Tor IP, because someone did a netscan on a /23 via Tor. They requested a statement via mail / fax now, which I sent, but didn't get a response yet. --morphium
  • Same thing (disconnect b/c of netscan) happened to me sometime around March 2011 . Connection restored after a few hours (Fax & Phone call "plz look at it right away"). Stopped me from having an exit there. :/ -- Fusselwurm
  • Same thing as Fusselwurm, disconnected because of a netscan done through Tor. It seems exit nodes aren't permitted with Hetzner. -- Naypam
• Alvotech doesn't allow Tor exit nodes: "unfortunately we had several problems in the past with tor exit nodes (police stuff, ddos, lawyers etc.), so we don't wish it in our network". -- Nyr
• Netsys-online appears to offer unlimited 100MBit/s but disables the VPS even if you use only 20MBit/s (middle node) because of too much resource usage.
• Unmetered.com does not allow Tor exits nodes. -- enn.lu
• Webtropia.com Doesn't tolerate any Tor nodes (entry/middle/exit). We got kicked even before we could setup Tor. The first month was charged and the m0ney wasn't paid back. -- juris/torservers.net. They claim 5100 € penalty for an exit node (see tor-relay list)- (12/13/15)
• Contabo.com doesn't explicitly disallow Tor exit nodes, but takes abuse complaints very seriously and doesn't see Tor exit nodes any differently to any other abuse. -- 1/13/17
• nbiserv doesn't allow Tor relay/exit. („Das installieren und betreiben eines TOR Relay oder Exit Node ist verboten.“ (AGB)) -- txt.file 2018-05-30
• Host-Unlimited They don´t allow Tor Services. See Support conversation (here.) 2020-05-06

Denmark

• Kviknet does not allow sharing of bandwidth with 3rd parties. This includes Tor relays and bridges.

France

• The french hosting company [http://www.online.net/fr] (member of iliad) suspended without warning a bunch a machines that were running Tor after the police came down about creditcard fraud. (Also, any kind of relay is explicitely forbidden in their term of service.)
• online.net sends automated daily "abuse" mails and disables your server even if you are only running a middle node. -- August 2013, Torpids
• relay [?/-] exit [-] FirstHeberg now accepting relay. The technical director of FirstHeberg has announced "What happens on your server does not concern me." However they recently terminated my exit node due to abuse complaints over supposed WordPress hacking attempts (HTTP traffic). Sam has also reported that Firstheberg is very unreliable, and that they attempted to packetsniff his traffic with tcpdump as well as warping his network interface in order to investigate abuse.

Finland

• Tenue now seems to disallow Tor exits on their network. See http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Apr-2010/msg00158.html

Canada

• Rogers has a no-servers clause in the TOS for their home internet service. If you are running an exit node and receive DMCA notices, you will have no legal recourse except to cancel service. (2008-03)

Sweden

• Perspektiv bredband supposedly allows for running Tor nodes, but will disable your account due to spam.
• Glesys.se "Unfortunately you cant run a TOR exit relay in our infrastructure due to the amount of complaint we receive." from support@glesys.se (10/2015)

United Kingdom

• I have asked and Swiftway doesn't want Tor exits on their network.
• Memset do not allow Tor servers under their (rather vague) AUP.
• UK Dedicated aka Colo.net informed me that I couldn't continue to run my Tor relay or in anyway effect, conduct or facilitate any activity involving: IRC or anonymous proxy services.
• I asked OVH/Kimsufi about their policies regarding Tor exit nodes and was told that an exit node is classed as an open proxy which is against the TOS. I replied that I'll be running it in bridge mode then. No feedback on that so far. --Maquis196
• 123-reg found out I was running an Exit Node (received a notice regarding filesharing, someone downloading torrents using my Exit). I was asked to shut it down. I complied and asked if i could run a Relay node. They said no as that would violate their AUP. -- September 2012, vandal2
• I asked Heart Internet and explained what Tor was. They replied they will not allow this on their networks. I cannot find anything in their terms that would exclude Tor, certainly not a relay, but there you are.

Hungary

• RendszerNET Kft. Asked by email to confirm whether running a non-exit relay, they reply "Unfortunately, Tor Network operation is not allowed on our servers. Kiss János". Previously on the good list as of 2017-04-20, removed from there because of this. (2017-12-25)

Italy

• SEFLOW Avoid it. they say it's against Italian law to have a Tor relay, asked which law, they said to contact a lawyer. (atrent: do you need a more articulate explanation? I'm the one who had the bad experience, I have all the emails exchanged and I can translate them); "i'm sorry but tor is not allowed in our service." (fusl, 02/2015). I confirm it, same situation nowadays with both the brands they sell, seflow and domflow (null, 11/2018)
• Garr ISP (connectivity provider) of italian universities, part of GÉANT: they do NOT allow exit nodes on their net (I had one, they obliged me to tear it down); AUP prohibits «transito di dati e/o informazioni sulla Rete GARR tra due soggetti entrambi non autorizzati all'accesso sulla Rete GARR (third party routing)»
• KeliWeb Ask the support if they allow Tor nodes and got this answer: "purtroppo questo genere di servizi non sono autorizzati nei nostri datacenter." (Eng. translation: "Unfortunately we do not allow this kind of services in our datacenter")
• VHosting Solution Ask the support if they allow Tor nodes and got this answer: "siamo spiacenti ma il tipo di servizio che lei richiede, non e' autorizzato sui nostri servizi." (Eng. translation: "We are sorry but the service you ask for is not allowed in our services")
• ARUBA Support contacted me about an abuse complaint regarding torrent activities, I have explained that I was not hosting any infringing material based on the DMCA template, they insisted I had to shutdown my servers and reinstall them sothat they can monitor them. They also asked a copy of my ID or Passport. They are Anti-Privacy champions, here's their e-mail "We confirm that running TOR on our Cloud platform is against our terms and conditions and, consequently, is forbidden." AVOID! (Seems to have softened up a bit, see above).
• TopHost by SeeWeb I warned them about the exit i was going to open, and they answered that it's not forbidden but that as far as the service is cheap they cannot provide a complex abuse handling, and suggested to buy more expensive services at SeeWeb. in fact at first abuse mail they filtered networking of the vps and forwarded me the mail so i could correct and ask to remove filtering. At second abuse email they refused to enable networking again on the VPS and wrote me that in case I activate new vps with "the same content" they will suspend the whole account with all my services (null, 11/2018).

Slovenia

• Domenca has crazy prices (10 EUR/Mbit/s + 300 EUR/U for dedicated server per month) and they require not just to respond to all complaints in one working day, but also to prevent them in the future. Just replying with explanation that it is an anonymous service and there is no way to prevent this, is not enough for them. So it seems impossible to really host Tor exit node there. Mitar (mitar@tnode.com)

Netherlands

• PCextreme does not allow hosting of a Tor relay node on their VPS. (Tue, 31 Jan 2012)
• Tilaa Instant shutdown when hosting an Exit node/Relay node. Does not allow you to host anonymous services for others in general. "hosting TOR exit and relay nodes, open proxy servers and anonymous VPN services is not allowed" -Tilaa (9-16-2014)
• Seedmonster does not list Tor as being against their TOS, but they suspended a major tor node because of 4 web forum spam reports on a 1gbps exit. They will try to work with you, but their upstream provider is zero tolerance, so when it comes down to it, they will not back Tor exits. (Update:) They agreed to let it keep running after the exit policy was modified, but then came back a week later and said Tor had to be disabled completely. Three complaints were received out of approx. 10TB of traffic.
• NFOrce shuts down your services if you run an exit node. Middle relays are probably fine.

Malaysia

• Shinjiru is not allowing Tor since their new policy (feb 2012), Even if all the exit ports are blocked, and even as relay : they are u-turning completely . (In the past they even donated a server to the Tor project); traffic is expensive though

Russia

• Smile blocks any traffic, by redirecting to statis web page with message about that user is possibly providing access to third party. It does not like many simultaneous outbound HTTP-connections.

Switzerland

• Private Layer, Inc. does not allow hosting of a Tor relay node on their VPS (Thu, 02 Feb 2012)

"Tor is not allowed to be ran on our containers. This is the reason why the process gets killer every minute. The reason why we do not allow Tor, is because over time we have seen that it consumes way too much CPU time, so we have decided not to allow it on our VPS. "

• SolNet does not list Tor as being against their TOS, but they will ask you to shut it down if they receive complains via abuse (Fri, 15 Feb 2013).

• HostEurope Switzerland: Cant install Tor on Ubunut 10.04 LTS, but they wont give me an other OS-Template.

• Serverbase Tor is not allowed by their TOS because they don't want services which cause too much traffic. After trying it out anyway they start to limit traffic after two weeks.

Czech Republic

• Nethost They don't allow running TOR exit node (July 2015).
• flexiVPS They don't allow running TOR exit node (July 2015).
• NQhost They don't allow running relays of any kind:

"We don't allow to use our servers for tor exit nodes and/or relays"

• Forpsi / Aruba - they don't disallow exits, but require incident response for each incident. They regard sending packet to a known C&C as an incident, so expect several incidents per month (I assume they will get annoyed and cancel your service after a while). Some of the incidents are even reported by the Czech GovCERT. The relay should be OK.
• Best-hosting They don't allow relay or exit nodes on their VMs or own HW in the datacenter (November 2017); "it can generally be said that, due to complications, we do not support this project" / "obecne lze rici, ze tento typ projektu z duvodu komplikaci nepodporujeme"
• relay [?] exit [-] Wedos.CZ Update 2015-10-12 After running an Exit-Relay with a reduced exit policy for ~ 3.5 month they shut it down Here. There was ~ only one abuse complaint every second week. They refused WHOIS IP reassingnment. I switched to a non-exit-policy. Update 2016-06-21 They cut off my non-exit Tor server because it was causing their IP address range to appear on the Sectoor Tor blacklist. In the following correspondence they said that Tor servers are not explicitly forbidden but they will not be happy if you get their IP address range on the blacklist. They did not confirm whether running a Tor server on a non-standard port is allowed.

Ukraine

• 0x2A Refuses Tor traffic.
• blazingfast.io shut down my exit without further notice. anyway, it was blazingslow (12/13/15).
• https://itldc.com does not like abuse https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2017-September/012995.html

Poland

• vipower They don't allow running relays of any kind: "niestety nie ma takiej możliwości."
• webh They don't allow running relays of any kind: "Zabraniamy TOR'a ze względu na fakt iż większość użytkowników nie wie z czym to się wiąże. Ogólnie zachęcamy klientów żeby nie korzystali z p2p itp. protokołów."

Mexico

• Telmex: Currently Telmex blocks by route: 86.59.21.38, 171.25.193.9 , 199.58.81.140 , 194.109.206.212 , 204.13.164.118 , 131.188.40.189 ,193.23.244.244 , 128.31.0.39 , 199.254.238.52