# VPS & Privacy-Hosting Glossary — Plain-English Terms | VPSbit

> Plain-English definitions of VPS and privacy-hosting terms: no-KYC, KVM, NVMe, clean IP, reverse DNS, DMCA-ignored, offshore hosting, DDoS protection and more.

Source: https://vpsbit.io/glossary/

# VPS and privacy-hosting glossary

Plain-English definitions of hosting and privacy terms. Each page is a full article with honest limits and internal links to the products that match.

## Hosting basics

- [NVMe vs SSD hosting](https://vpsbit.io/glossary/.glossary/nvme-vs-ssd/) NVMe beats SATA SSD on latency and parallel I/O; what you feel on a VPS depends on the whole storage fabric. The numbers…
- [What is KVM virtualization?](https://vpsbit.io/glossary/.glossary/kvm-vs-containers/) True virtualization with your own kernel and reserved resources, versus shared-container hosting. What the difference me…

## Privacy and payment

- [What is no-KYC hosting?](https://vpsbit.io/glossary/.glossary/no-kyc-hosting/) No-KYC hosting defined: no ID, no documents, no phone at signup. What it protects, what it cannot do, and how to judge a…
- [Bulletproof vs offshore hosting](https://vpsbit.io/glossary/.glossary/bulletproof-vs-offshore/) Bulletproof hosting ignores abuse to carry crime; offshore hosting changes jurisdiction while obeying local law. A compa…
- [What is offshore hosting?](https://vpsbit.io/glossary/.glossary/offshore-hosting/) Hosting placed in a jurisdiction chosen for legal, political or fiscal reasons. What it changes, what it does not, and w…

## Jurisdiction and policy

- [The 5, 9 and 14 Eyes, explained](https://vpsbit.io/glossary/.glossary/fourteen-eyes/) The 5, 9 and 14 Eyes are intelligence-sharing alliances, not hosting laws. Who sits in each tier, what they do and don't…
- [Is DMCA-ignored hosting legal?](https://vpsbit.io/glossary/.glossary/dmca-ignored/) A host that files copyright notices without action. What that policy actually is, what it is not, what still gets action…
- [What is a warrant canary?](https://vpsbit.io/glossary/.glossary/warrant-canary/) A periodically signed statement that no warrants, subpoenas or gag orders have arrived. How silence works as a signal — …

## Networking and IP

- [What is a clean IP?](https://vpsbit.io/glossary/.glossary/clean-ip/) A clean IP has no spam or abuse history on Spamhaus and the major blocklists. How IP reputation works, where a dirty add…
- [What is reverse DNS?](https://vpsbit.io/glossary/.glossary/reverse-dns/) Reverse DNS maps an IP back to a hostname through a PTR record. How the mechanism works, why mail filters demand it, and…

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