Packetra | Privacy Hosting in Finland & Switzerland | No KYC, BTC/XMR | Official Thread

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Hey LES,

This is Packetra's permanent thread for updates, new locations, questions and the occasional deal. Our weekly offers will still go in the Offers sub-forums. This is the place to ask anything in between.

Who we are

Packetra is a privacy-focused hosting provider, live since January 2026 after a closed beta through 2025. The team behind it has 16 years in the hosting industry. Legal entity is ASPB Limited, Hong Kong.

Locations

Location Network Test IP
Turku, Finland Our own hardware, colocated at Web1 Oy 142.228.52.10
Helsinki, Finland Hetzner 135.181.190.26
Zurich, Switzerland Private Layer 179.43.146.89

New Finland VPS orders land on our own hardware in Turku. Looking Glass: https://packetra.com/looking-glass

What we sell

  • Cloud VPS: full KVM (not containers), 1 Gbit/s unmetered or 10 Gbit/s metered, Finland and Switzerland
  • Dedicated servers: Ryzen, dual Xeon and dual EPYC, no setup fees in Switzerland
  • Shared and WordPress hosting
  • Domains

How we work

  • No KYC. Signup is an email and a password. No ID, no selfies, at any stage.
  • Self-hosted BTCPay Server for Bitcoin and Monero, no third-party gateway. Other coins via CoinPayments, plus cards, PayPal and Wise.
  • Google-free site and portal. No Analytics, no ad tracking, no reCAPTCHA.
  • Human support 24/7, answered by the same small team that runs the infrastructure.

Quick policy notes

  • VPNs allowed everywhere
  • Tor relays and bridges allowed, exit nodes not allowed anywhere
  • Switzerland: torrents and lawful 18+ content permitted. Copyright complaints need a Swiss court order.
  • Finland: no torrents/P2P

Full AUP per location: https://packetra.com/aup

Links

Website: https://packetra.com
Client portal: https://portal.packetra.com
Payment methods: https://packetra.com/payments

Questions about routing, hardware, payments or policy, ask here and we'll answer.

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Comments

  • ehabehab

    nice to see Finland different provider.

    what about discounts?

  • AnthonySmithAnthonySmith AdministratorProviderOG

    I don't really know why, but I really like the idea of having a TierHive node in Turku, but the hardware is pretty damn good you offer (so naturally expensive) dont you have any strange odd servers you can let go a bit cheaper, like it can never be upgraded because of X or the IPMI is a pain in the ass to use or xyz reason, thats perfect for someone who does not need help to cope with it. if so, take my pennies :)

    Strange request I know, but it's amazing how many dedi providers have "those servers" that they don't want to spend the time deracking but don't want to sell because the customer is not likely to cope because of a strange issue.... and I am the perfect customer for those :)

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  • PacketraOliverPacketraOliver Provider
    edited October 9

    @AnthonySmith said:
    I don't really know why, but I really like the idea of having a TierHive node in Turku, but the hardware is pretty damn good you offer (so naturally expensive) dont you have any strange odd servers you can let go a bit cheaper, like it can never be upgraded because of X or the IPMI is a pain in the ass to use or xyz reason, thats perfect for someone who does not need help to cope with it. if so, take my pennies :)

    Strange request I know, but it's amazing how many dedi providers have "those servers" that they don't want to spend the time deracking but don't want to sell because the customer is not likely to cope because of a strange issue.... and I am the perfect customer for those :)

    Yes I know that feeling, you mean those R220's that are now obsolete, IDRAC 6-7, Java crap especially R210II ;D with IDRAC6, what a horrible feeling, I actually had to setup a small VM where I installed an older JAVA on and edited the java.security to disable the checks so I could run those IDRAC6's, Right now in Turku we don't have anything in particular, we've mostly been in Hetzner and Zurich but with our latest addition in Turku which is our primary over Hetzner, the idea will be eventually to offer some dedicated servers there, currently only VPS. I will put this however behind the ear, when or if procure some old (discount) hardware or upgrade current hardware as time passes, Ill float you a line in PM if that ever comes up =)..

  • PacketraOliverPacketraOliver Provider

    @ehab said:
    nice to see Finland different provider.

    what about discounts?

    You can find all sorts of discounts floating in VPS category on LES, along with our billing-cycle discounts baked in for our VPS.

  • AnthonySmithAnthonySmith AdministratorProviderOG

    @PacketraOliver said:

    @AnthonySmith said:
    I don't really know why, but I really like the idea of having a TierHive node in Turku, but the hardware is pretty damn good you offer (so naturally expensive) dont you have any strange odd servers you can let go a bit cheaper, like it can never be upgraded because of X or the IPMI is a pain in the ass to use or xyz reason, thats perfect for someone who does not need help to cope with it. if so, take my pennies :)

    Strange request I know, but it's amazing how many dedi providers have "those servers" that they don't want to spend the time deracking but don't want to sell because the customer is not likely to cope because of a strange issue.... and I am the perfect customer for those :)

    Yes I know that feeling, you mean those R220's that are now obsolete, IDRAC 6-7, Java crap especially R210II ;D with IDRAC6, what a horrible feeling, I actually had to setup a small VM where I installed an older JAVA on and edited the java.security to disable the checks so I could run those IDRAC6's, Right now in Turku we don't have anything in particular, we've mostly been in Hetzner and Zurich but with our latest addition in Turku which is our primary over Hetzner, the idea will be eventually to offer some dedicated servers there, currently only VPS. I will put this however behind the ear, when or if procure some old (discount) hardware or upgrade current hardware as time passes, Ill float you a line in PM if that ever comes up =)..

    Yeah, that sort of thing, i actually got so sick of jumping through the hoops I had claude start a little project called "IPMIHell" combined with IcedTea, and so far... I have been able to launch pretty much anything fairly trouble-free without any more hoops!

    TierHive - Hourly VPS - NAT Native - /24 per customer - DE, UK, SG, CA, USA x4, FR x2, AU, PL, NL, JP
    FREE tokens on sign up, try before you buy. | Static Hosting Free for life: https://tierhive.com/static-hosting/

  • PacketraOliverPacketraOliver Provider

    @AnthonySmith said:

    @PacketraOliver said:

    @AnthonySmith said:
    I don't really know why, but I really like the idea of having a TierHive node in Turku, but the hardware is pretty damn good you offer (so naturally expensive) dont you have any strange odd servers you can let go a bit cheaper, like it can never be upgraded because of X or the IPMI is a pain in the ass to use or xyz reason, thats perfect for someone who does not need help to cope with it. if so, take my pennies :)

    Strange request I know, but it's amazing how many dedi providers have "those servers" that they don't want to spend the time deracking but don't want to sell because the customer is not likely to cope because of a strange issue.... and I am the perfect customer for those :)

    Yes I know that feeling, you mean those R220's that are now obsolete, IDRAC 6-7, Java crap especially R210II ;D with IDRAC6, what a horrible feeling, I actually had to setup a small VM where I installed an older JAVA on and edited the java.security to disable the checks so I could run those IDRAC6's, Right now in Turku we don't have anything in particular, we've mostly been in Hetzner and Zurich but with our latest addition in Turku which is our primary over Hetzner, the idea will be eventually to offer some dedicated servers there, currently only VPS. I will put this however behind the ear, when or if procure some old (discount) hardware or upgrade current hardware as time passes, Ill float you a line in PM if that ever comes up =)..

    Yeah, that sort of thing, i actually got so sick of jumping through the hoops I had claude start a little project called "IPMIHell" combined with IcedTea, and so far... I have been able to launch pretty much anything fairly trouble-free without any more hoops!

    That sounds like a good idea, I've seen Icedtea when on Supermicro, Dell's IDRAC6 is atrocious, I mean it is the definition of death, IPMIHell sounds like a nice idea to avoid all this, but the java.security Java # I did was pre-AI, the IDRAC6 was starting to be annoying before AI became popular, latest Java wont even entertain IDRAC6, not even if you were to add it to the exclusion criteria in Java Configure, it has to do with the Ciphers in the security config. Not to mention, IDRAC6 is just bad, the interface its just bad, now IDRAC9 is nice, not sure if gold standard but high standard imo.

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