Can you run a VPN or Tor relay

Yes — WebGee permits VPNs and network relays on its servers, public or private. Applies to VPS and dedicated servers.

Conditions

Order enough bandwidth. A VPN or relay carries the traffic of everyone using it, which is a very different profile from a website. Exceeding your allowance has consequences that depend on your plan — check the traffic figure on your server's overview.

Stay within the Terms of Service and Fair Use Policy. The usual rules apply, and they apply to the traffic your service carries as well as to the service itself.

Abuse complaints are your responsibility. Traffic leaving your server is attributed to your IP address. Complaints come to you, and sustained abuse affects the service regardless of who generated it.

Tor exit relays

Permitted, but talk to us first.

An exit relay is the point where traffic leaves the Tor network onto the public internet, so its IP address is what any destination sees. In practice that means a high volume of abuse reports, and a real chance of the IP being blacklisted.

Open a ticket before setting one up and we will advise on the right placement.

Middle relays and bridges do not carry the same exposure — they never connect to destinations outside the network — and need no special arrangement.

Worth doing anyway

• Set reverse DNS to something identifying the service. Abuse handlers treat an unlabelled IP less generously — see Networking and reverse DNS.
• Publish a contact address if you run a public relay, so reports reach you rather than only us.
• Rate-limit outbound SMTP. Relays and VPNs are routinely used to send spam, and blocking port 25 outbound removes the most common abuse vector entirely.

Related

• What is included with VPS and cloud server management?
• Networking and reverse DNS