Guides
Run it yourself.
Copy-pasteable walkthroughs for privacy tools, VPNs, hidden services and hardened servers on your NoctisNode VPS.
How to pay for a VPS with Monero
Step-by-step: fund your NoctisNode balance with XMR, from picking a wallet to a confirmed balance and a deployed server. No KYC, no cards.
Paying for a VPS with USDT
How to pay for a no-KYC VPS with USDT on the network of your choice — what to watch for with stablecoin payments and how balance crediting works.
WireGuard VPN on a $5 VPS
One-config-file WireGuard setup on a NoctisNode VPS: hardened defaults, IPv6 support and adding peers in seconds. Copy-paste ready.
Hosting a Tor hidden service
Run a v3 onion service on NoctisNode with a locked-down Nginx and a fail-closed firewall that survives reboots.
Reverse proxy with Caddy + auto-TLS
One Caddyfile, automatic Let's Encrypt certificates, HTTP/3 and sane defaults — the fastest path to TLS in front of any app.
Encrypted root volume with LUKS
Customer-held passphrase, LUKS2 root encryption and reboot-survival via rescue-ISO unlock on a NoctisNode server.
Hardening SSH and root login
Disable passwords, restrict ciphers, keep root via prohibit-password and add fail2ban — five minutes that remove 99% of SSH risk.
Backups to a remote object store
Restic with an S3-compatible endpoint: hourly cron, client-side encryption and forget/prune policy for a NoctisNode VPS.
Private mail relay with Postfix & DKIM
Outbound-only mail relay on your own IP with SPF, DKIM and DMARC — rDNS that doesn't shout 'VPS'.
Running a Monero node
Full XMR node on a NoctisNode VPS: sync, remote RPC for your wallet, and the privacy benefits of verifying your own transactions.
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