Mastodon VPS Hosting No KYC

Self-host a Mastodon instance on no-KYC KVM: RAM and NVMe sized by user count, XMR or USDT invoice, root from $3/mo annual.

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Why a no-KYC VPS for Mastodon

You run the whole instance: ActivityPub, Postgres, Redis, Sidekiq, media store. NulNet rents the KVM with root and stays out of the rest — token or email signup, coin invoice, no passport, selfie or phone. The catalog floor is Scout (1 vCPU / 2 GB ECC / 40 GB NVMe / unmetered 1 Gbps / $3/mo annual) across twenty-one locations. Growth stays in-family: slices resize in place, and when media or queues outgrow a share, the storage tiers and dedicated metal bill on the same account and the same coin invoice. Install guide: Mastodon admin: install. We provision the VM; operating your Fediverse node is your role.

RAM and NVMe by user count

The sizing below is planning guidance drawn from community deployments, not a published Mastodon SLA: Postgres, Redis and Sidekiq share the box with the web process, and media dominates disk over time. Treat the columns as estimates and map the result to the nearest catalog SKU — CPU and RAM resize live, disk growth reboots once.

L3/L4 DDoS filtering ships with every tier, PTR edits from the panel, and one list price covers all twenty-one cities — pick the flag your users can reach, not a slogan.

Fediverse privacy

No-KYC checkout cleans the billing layer only. It changes nothing about how ActivityPub itself publishes:

• Public posts federate. Remote instances copy public toots, profiles and usually media. A host that never saw your passport does not stop those copies.
• DMs carry no end-to-end encryption. The local database (yours, on this VPS) is readable by whoever holds root, and every receiving server keeps its own copy. For conversations that must live on servers you choose, run a Matrix homeserver beside or instead of Mastodon.
• Media and preview caches leak metadata. Remote media proxying and link preview cards pull URLs off-box; size NVMe for local media and assume remotes retain thumbnails.
• Jurisdiction is process, not a shield. The biller sits in Saint Kitts and Nevis; the VM runs in one of twenty-one facilities under its local law. Published policy: connection metadata kept at most 24 hours then dropped, no payload or guest-traffic logs, billing and panel events persist with the account.

The OPSEC remainder — wallet reuse, domain WHOIS, origin-IP leaks — is on how anonymous NulNet is.

Recommended setup

Plan: Sentry for a ~10-user instance (4 GB / 60 GB NVMe at $6.00 annual-eff); move to Warden once the 100-user band applies. Install: Mastodon admin: install. Open 80/443 — federation speaks plain HTTPS. A Docker-wrapped stack works: nested virt is on. Backups stay yours: dump Postgres on a schedule and pull it off-box to restic or borg target.