# Tor relay & exit | NulNet > Middle relay, bridge or exit on a no-ID VPS: Ranger $12.50 list carries a middle, exits on request. You operate the daemon from Tor Project docs. No ID at. Source: https://nulnet.com/solutions/tor-relay/ [Home](https://nulnet.com/) / [Solutions](https://nulnet.com/solutions/) / Tor relay & exit Workload playbook # Tor Relay VPS — Middle, Bridge, Exit, No KYC ![NulNet Tor relay abstract: layered light rings around a node](https://nulnet.com/img/theme-tor.png) Middle relay, bridge or exit on a no-ID VPS: Ranger $12.50 list carries a middle, exits on request. You operate the daemon from Tor Project docs. Published 2026-08-30 · Updated 2026-09-08 · NulNet Editorial **Short answer** Rent a VPS, follow the Tor Project's relay setup guide, set an honest ContactInfo, and publish an abuse path before you scale bandwidth. Bridges and middles start immediately; exits run on request inside the AUP. The host rents the box and never operates the relay. NulNet: VPS from $3/mo and dedicated from $30.80/mo annual. The map spans twenty-one locations — Reykjavik (Iceland) and Zurich (Switzerland) among them, plus Singapore, Dubai, Cape Town and fourteen others. Signup is email plus a 12-character password, or token-only. No KYC. Checkout is crypto-only across BTC, XMR, ETH, BNB, SOL, LTC, TRX, XRP, DOGE, DASH, ADA, GRAM (TON), and USDT (TRC-20/ERC-20/BEP-20/SPL). No payload or guest traffic logs; connection metadata ≤24h. DDoS included. One SKN company, one crypto checkout. Deploy at https://nulnet.com/deploy/. ## What operators actually run [Tor Project: relay operations](https://community.torproject.org/relay/) is the whole checklist: the package, an open ORPort, a reachable contact address, and MyFamily once a second relay exists. Most operators start with a middle relay or a bridge — both are ordinary traffic and need no permission. Exits are a different commitment: allowed on request with a published abuse contact, and they trade quiet bandwidth for a mailbox that actually gets mail. Settling the VPS invoice in coins does not change any of that; the AUP reads the same in every currency. VPS from $3* (fund $50+), storage 1–5 TB NVMe from $24/mo annual-eff, dedicated with IPMI from $30.80/mo. Crypto invoice, no KYC. [Launch now](https://nulnet.com/deploy/?kind=vps&plan=business/) ## Playbook From invoice to a public relay - Ranger or Warden for a middle relay. High-bandwidth exits want Vanguard / Sentinel or dedicated. - Install from [Tor Project: relay operations](https://community.torproject.org/relay/). Set ContactInfo. Do not hide an exit. - Iceland or Romania are the usual flags. Amsterdam is faster peering and a different process story. - Unmetered bandwidth never excuses leaving an L7 ticket without a good answer. ## Sizing the role Bandwidth class picks the tier: a bridge is tiny and runs on Sentry ($7.50 list, $6.00 annual-eff); a contributing middle is comfortable on Ranger ($12.50 / $10.00) or Warden ($19.00 / $15.20); an exit pushing serious throughput wants the unmetered 10 Gbps of Sentinel or whole cores on the [dedicated line](https://nulnet.com/dedicated/) from $30.80/mo annual-eff. Reykjavik and Bucharest are the customary flags — no mandatory retention statute at either — while Amsterdam buys exchange-adjacent throughput under EU process. One list price covers the rest of the map. ## Limits CSAM and attack traffic still come down the pipe, and still end accounts — a relay is not an exception to the AUP. You hold root and run the daemon; the host rents the machine, forwards the abuse mail it receives, and reads takedown claims only from law enforcement of the facility jurisdiction. Are exit nodes allowed? Yes, on request and inside the AUP: publish an abuse contact, answer the mail honestly, and expect the account conversation that comes with the role. Do you run the relay for me? No. The host provides the KVM, the port and the invoice; installing and operating the daemon from the Tor Project's own documentation is the operator's job. Which tier should a first relay use? Start a bridge or low-bandwidth middle on Sentry or Ranger, watch directory-assigned bandwidth for a month, and only then scale toward Sentinel or metal if the graph justifies it. Can I pay the relay invoice in Monero? Yes. XMR sits first in the sixteen-coin checkout beside BTC and USDT on four networks, and no ID step appears anywhere in the signup flow. ## Primary sources - [Tor Project: relay operations](https://community.torproject.org/relay/) ## Related guides - [Minimum-data no-KYC checkout](https://nulnet.com/guides/anonymous-vps-crypto-no-kyc/) - [Buy a VPS with crypto](https://nulnet.com/buy-vps-with-crypto/) - [No-KYC VPS: requirements and limits](https://nulnet.com/no-kyc-vps/) - [Pay with Monero](https://nulnet.com/monero-vps/) - [Offshore VPS](https://nulnet.com/offshore-vps/) - [VPS vs dedicated bare-metal](https://nulnet.com/guides/vps-vs-dedicated/) - [Best no-KYC VPS 2026](https://nulnet.com/best-no-kyc-vps-2026/) - [FAQ: crypto VPS](https://nulnet.com/guides/faq-crypto-vps/) ## Checkout facts - **Price** VPS from $3/mo. Dedicated from $30.80/mo. - **Identity** No KYC. Token-only (no email) or email plus a 12-character password. No passport, phone, or card. - **Payment** Sixteen ways to settle, none of them a card: XMR and BTC lead, ETH, SOL, LTC, BNB and TRX follow, then XRP, DOGE, DASH and ADA, GRAM (TON) for Telegram-adjacent rails, and USDT on four networks — TRC-20, ERC-20, BEP-20, SPL. Live-rate invoice. - **Logs** No payload / no guest traffic logs. Billing and panel actions retained. Connection metadata ≤24h. - **Platform** KVM on ECC and local NVMe. DDoS filtering included. Facilities in 21 cities across four continents — the locations table lists each one's tier, uplink and governing law. Need Iceland or Switzerland plus no KYC? Those two carry a published premium (+20% / +35%); every other flag stays at base list. Pay BTC, USDT, XMR, BNB, XRP, GRAM (TON) or 10 more. Open deploy to pick a plan. ## Ready to launch? Build the box — VPS, storage or bare metal — create the password, pay the invoice that follows. [Launch now](https://nulnet.com/deploy/?kind=vps&plan=business/)[Dedicated](https://nulnet.com/dedicated/)