Offshore and DMCA-ignored VPS

Renting such a server is legal in most countries, and so are the usual reasons for it: free expression, privacy tools, Tor relays. What you host still has to be legal where the server stands, and often where you live. A host that ignores DMCA notices still follows its own country’s law and removes what a court or the authorities there order removed.

No. These hosts do not act on US DMCA notices, but they follow the copyright law of their own country, and several say so in the same sentence. Pirated software, films or music can still get a server suspended after a complaint under local law.

Only where the host says so: the Tor filter separates hosts that allow exit nodes from those that allow relays only or no Tor nodes. Exit operators receive abuse complaints about other people’s traffic, and even hosts that allow exits expect you to answer them and to keep spam and attacks from leaving your exit.

Not by itself. The host still sees your email address, your payment and the IP addresses you connect from, and it answers to the courts of its own country. Paying with cryptocurrency and choosing a host that asks for no ID document help; the no-KYC list shows hosts with both.

A host is listed only when its own pages say it sells offshore hosting or ignores DMCA notices and we have read them; hosts we have not checked yet are left out. Hosts that advertise tolerance of spam, phishing, malware or botnets are left out on purpose.