The founding of TheOnionHost came out of a specific frustration: finding offshore hosting that actually worked. Not "offshore" as a marketing term, but genuinely — servers in independent jurisdictions, with real hardware, real support, and clear policies about how complaints were handled.
We started with a single dedicated server in Sofia, Bulgaria. The first month was 23 customers. We answered every ticket ourselves and learned what operators actually needed.
By 2019 we had customers asking for stronger jurisdictional separation — Ukraine made sense. Fully outside EU enforcement mechanisms, independent legal system, solid datacenter infrastructure in Kyiv. We deployed there in Q3 2019.
2021 was the DDoS upgrade. Several of our customers ran services that attracted sustained attacks. We invested in 500Gbps mitigation across all nodes — and made it standard on every plan, no upsell. This decision cost us margin but built long-term loyalty.
The NVMe migration in 2023 was overdue. We replaced every SATA node across all VPS infrastructure. 3,500 MB/s read speeds became standard. The difference was immediate — WordPress load times, database query speeds, everything improved.
Netherlands came in 2024. AMS-IX connectivity gave us access to the world's best-connected internet exchange. Combined with crypto payment options and no-KYC ordering, it opened a new category for us: premium Western European performance with privacy-first billing.
Moldova and Iceland are in the pipeline. We don't rush deployments — we'd rather take longer and get it right than expand quickly and deliver a bad product.