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Private, easy and affordable VPS servers. An alternative to services that infringe upon basic rights to privacy and freedom of expression.
KYUN is a vps service that accepts Monero and Fiat. It has no mention of KYC policies and has a score of 7/10. There are 29 user ratings averaging 3.5/5.
Scores
- No KYC mention
- No mention of current or future KYC requirements.
- May suspend your account 0 -4
The service reserves the right to suspend or limit access to your account. For example, if you have overdue payments or you violated the service's ToS.
The service reserves the right to suspend or limit access to your account. For example, if you have overdue payments or you violated the service's ToS.
0 Privacy-4 Trust - Data Sharing -3 0
Personal and account data may be shared with authorities and third-party providers for compliance, fraud prevention, and service provision.
Personal and account data may be shared with authorities and third-party providers for compliance, fraud prevention, and service provision.
-3 Privacy0 Trust - Account required -1 0
Users require creating an account with the service in order to access and use its features.
Users require creating an account with the service in order to access and use its features.
-1 Privacy0 Trust - Source code is private 0 -1
The service's source code is not public, so it cannot be reviewed or audited by the community. This limits transparency.
The service's source code is not public, so it cannot be reviewed or audited by the community. This limits transparency.
0 Privacy-1 Trust - No KYC mention +15 0
No mention of current or future KYC requirements.
- Identity-Free registration +10 0
Users can create accounts without giving personal information (such as full name, address or phone number). Note that some services might initially allow this, but they may subsequently request personal information (i.e. Automated flagging systems, Shotgun KYC...).
Users can create accounts without giving personal information (such as full name, address or phone number). Note that some services might initially allow this, but they may subsequently request personal information (i.e. Automated flagging systems, Shotgun KYC...).
+10 Privacy0 Trust - Verified 0 +10
Passed repeated checks over time and showed consistent behavior. Read more about the listing statuses.
Passed repeated checks over time and showed consistent behavior. Read more about the listing statuses.
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0 Privacy+10 Trust - Accepts Monero +5 0
This service accepts Monero, a privacy-focused cryptocurrency that provides enhanced anonymity.
This service accepts Monero, a privacy-focused cryptocurrency that provides enhanced anonymity.
+5 Privacy0 Trust - Has Onion or I2P URLs +5 0
Onion (Tor) and I2P URLs enhance privacy and anonymity.
- Mature service 0 +5
This service has been operational for 3 years. While this indicates stability, it is not a future-proof guarantee.
This service has been operational for 3 years. While this indicates stability, it is not a future-proof guarantee.
0 Privacy+5 Trust - Legally registered 0 +2
Legally registered as Kyun SRL in Romania 🇷🇴.
Legally registered as Kyun SRL in Romania 🇷🇴.
0 Privacy+2 Trust - Basic Customer Support 0 +1
Customer support for this service is average. They answer questions and fix problems in a reasonable time, although it may sometimes take longer than expected.
Customer support for this service is average. They answer questions and fix problems in a reasonable time, although it may sometimes take longer than expected.
0 Privacy+1 Trust - API available 0 0
An API is available for programmatic interaction with this service.
An API is available for programmatic interaction with this service.
0 Privacy0 Trust - JavaScript needed 0 0
The service requires the user to enable JavaScript in order to access and use its features.0 Privacy0 Trust - Base score +50 +50
Overall = 60% Privacy + 40% Trust (Truncated)
Terms of Service Review
Kyun is a VM host that accepts Monero (XMR). They have no uptime guarantees or automated backups. Accounts facing severe abuse complaints are terminated instantly with loss of funds.
Funds Forfeiture
Severe violations (like CSAM) or repeated abuse result in immediate service termination and forfeiture of all account balances.
Fast Data Deletion
Services suspended for non-payment or abuse are permanently deleted along with all hosted data after exactly 5 days.
No uptime guarantees
Kyun does not guarantee uptime, availability or performance. The ToS mention that Kyun services are not intended for critical operations.
Monero Accepted
Monero (XMR) deposits are supported, offering excellent financial privacy. Note that XMR refunds are not guaranteed and are handled on a case-by-case basis.
Live Support
Live chat defaults to handling queries via an AI assistant. Users are given the option to enable a Private Mode to skip that AI.
No Provider Backups
VM disks are not backed up by the provider. You are completely responsible for ensuring your own data redundancy and taking your own backups.
Reviewed from git.kyun.host/kyun/docs/-/blob/master/tos%7CTerms%20of%20Service.md
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Evidence and Review History
Passed repeated checks over time and showed consistent behavior.
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- Operating since Mar 1, 2023
Comments
Haters gonna hate. This coordinated attack will bring Kyun's rating down, but Kyun as a service will never die. Some bad reviews here are valid, some are just copy pasting stuff no one cares about. To anyone looking for a server host, read our Before You Buy doc, and verify for yourself all claims made in these duplicate reviews.
The uptime is really annoying (I use for business even though u don't recommend it) and it still works for my needs. Kyun on top
you keep on pushing the narrative that this is "coordinated" to remove comments, Kyun actually had downtime, Hostile Support, bad Uptime, not being Transparent
Rather than ignorantly denying all these claims that keep being provided sources for
FIX YOUR SERVICE
a good service will always have more praise than hate, e.g Mullvad several people mentioning having had experienced the same does not count it as being duplicate
anyone reading these reviews can look and see and will very likely have the same experience rather than be here and do futile damage control, i can recommend fixing the BRICKS or maybe improve the Uptime? what about implementing better Support Rules and Response times? what about implementing an Announcement Channel and providing a tad more Transparency when it comes to downtime?
Come on man, this service actually has potential
Nothing new, just wanted to change my review to a 1 star from the previous of 5 stars. Copy and pasting the reasoning I provided below:
Fully back up now but 4 days of downtime is quite unacceptable, though I should point out they are clear in their terms/FAQ/stuff about not using it for business/critical stuff (fortunately which I'm not) and that they have no guaranteed uptime. I don't blame the support people themselves for this but rather the service, but if you need support on the site you really need to keep pestering them to respond, because if you don't it will literally never get answered. The owner was at least helpful (off-site) once it was over and was helping people get back up and running. I should also note that my server stopped booting twice and I was told by staff both times that the disk was corrupted, and their AI agent really made me believe that I would have to wipe the disk and set it up from scratch, but I made sure to talk to a human first, and they somehow fixed it with the latest data both times (not sure exactly how). I had backups before so it would've been fine but now I am making sure to do them automatically every day and would recommend everyone to do the same. Unfortunately, I will never be using Kyun for any future projects and once my unspent balance runs out (which they will not give back) I will be switching to a different host. I think this has opened my eyes to see how much an extra euro or two a month can make to get an average host instead of getting the cheapest possible. Still, I used them for nearly a year and all of the time leading up to these events was pretty issue-free at least in comparison, so I hope Kyun succeeds and deals with these issues faster next time.
Updating from my previous rating to assess the situation,
Onsite Support has a 24> response time when you buy additional Storage (Bricks) to your VPS it is simply not functional on both locations as of 12/05/2026 since the Service Outage There is no Reliable Status updates, most of the time it says "Node Unreachable" which makes it impossible to see any status regarding the VPS itself
Home page is laggy when you want to scroll down quick, i recommend for someone reading this to do profiling proper memoing it also seems that reviews that have legit complaints get "censored" and then high star reviews that are even more dubious makes it appear this broken-ish service is reliable
for some small task this service is fine if you don't need good uptime or, i would never host anything of importance
I really hope for this service to improve in the future else it will go into my no use pile
I previously used the service and decided to try again recently, but it has been nothing but trouble.
Constant downtime, the site is heavily vibe coded and runs like crap even on my Ryzen 9 laptop, the owner of the company is extremely immature, the rules get changed with little notice, and more.
They just changed the permitted CPU allowance, with a few days notice, with the only mention of it being in the matrix room. No banner on the site, no blog post, nothing. In the past they have yielded to their US provider and changed the rules for both their locations despite the US provider (Crunchbits) being different to the Romania provider (iHostart)
They've also lost data due to incompetence in their US location when they messed up adding new disks to their raid array.
All round, the only positive thing about them is that they are cheaper than some alternatives (and not even that cheap), but this is an example of somewhere where cheap comes at a cost of being good.
The dashboard works fine on any reasonable modern computer or browser. I encourage all users reading this review to go and test Kyun themselves.
It is necessary to be able to change the rules to keep services running. We also gave 8 days notice which is plenty enough for a change that only affects 2% of customers, while improving service quality for the 98% majority, (see thread): https://x.com/kyunhost/status/2050984293954891965
The data loss was an isolated event that occurred early on when Kyun was new. It was a hardware failure, and our policies have been adapted such that this is no longer a risk.
As always, I encourage all users looking to host with us to read the Before You Buy doc, which you are forced to acknowledge before depositing funds for the first time anyway.
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Downtime: We see it even mentioned here as an event, but this has always been the case and it has been like this for years. Vibe coded: Owner themselves admits they use and abuse Claude code in the matrix room. Runs like crap: Unfortunately you will need to take my word for that, but I doubt others cannot replicate it. Owner's immaturity: Check the matrix room, and self admitted here: https://blog.kyun.sh/p/mesa Rules get changed with little notice: https://ibb.co/FLdFpxpt (From 3rd May - No mention on site) Changing the rules because of one provider's tantrum: https://crippled.media/article/free-speech-vps-providers-put-to-the-test#Kyun USA Data loss: https://blog.kyun.sh/p/us-data-loss
Support was a bit sloppy but other than that it was a great experience working with them but they do not have IPv6 in their Romania location
just created this account to write this. HORRIBLE UPTIME. it randomly just dies in middle of my session completely unreachable no explanation. Last down took days to fix i dont understand why all these downtimes happen. Will not use this service again even thiugh i liked it very much. Cant recommend
horrible downtime, but at least the price is good. support really ruined the experience though.
Added context: This comment appears to be part of a coordinated review wave.
Service was good and reliable up until the 5 day downtime everyone else has already talked about. Telegram group devolved into complete trolling by the staff members in there and their communication is extremely poor, with the owner lashing out at customers too (self-admitted in Mesa blog post). As the owner themselves says, do not use this service for anything serious unless you have up to date backups and it is not critical.
HORRIBLE uptime, 5 days, really? HORRIBLE support, never responds, and when they do, they are super immature. Due to their site being a custom-made vibecoded mess, nothing works how you expect it to and is missing crucial features such as a date & time on support messages. To make it better they recently raised prices and if you make any server configuration change you have to adopt those new prices. Also I don't believe for a second that there are two 5 star reviews after all of this. More likely they saw their rating dip under 4 stars and reviewed their own service to fix that.
Added context: Several duplicate accounts posting repeated feedback were removed from this page.
Thanks for the feedback on support messages showing time, we're always looking for advice on how to improve.
We always do our best to respond to all users, if we somehow missed your chat which I doubt, please just try again, we'll answer. Not sure what we've said that's immature though...
Kyun was created before vibecoding existed.
It has been outlined in the faq: https://kyun.sh/docs/faqs/danbo for over ten months (see Git history) that "Your service’s monthly price will stay the same, unless you change its specs or add IPv4 addresses."
RDAP shows kyun.host was registered in 2023. While the term vibecoding didn't exist then, the practice itself very much did. I don't care how long that's been "outlined" in the FAQ for, I will complain about prices increases no matter what it says and it would be stupid to think otherwise. I noticed your "Added context: This comment makes claims without supporting evidence." so I'll add some: https://status.kyun.sh/ shows a partial outage right now. The most recent blog post https://blog.kyun.sh/p/mesa states "The migration took about 5 days from start to finish during which the VM networks and dashboard were intermittently unreachable for a large subset of users, and a few more days of fixing smaller issues with Bricks and guests in weird states.". Site is very broken, just try using middle click scroll on their homepage and you will get a seizure from all of the flickering up and down. SUPPORTING EVIDENCE: https://streamable.com/vf6tru Do I go need to screenshot the support window too about the other point I made or will you admit that one? Would add it anyway but catbox appears to be down right now.
LLMs were (in my opinion) not good enough to be used to do what is now called vibecoding. Nap knows how to dev, but I won't bother arguing about this anymore anyway, no one cares.
The user isn't expected to use middle click to scroll on the home page, it intentionally captures your scroll. Just go straight to /dashboard if you dislike it. The site works fine, if your example of broken is this, then no on is going to take you seriously. Yes there were some issues related to the migrations and maintenance, but they should be resolved now. If you expect an AWS or DO quality website or level of pricing, use them. They have the devs and resources to ensure their sites rarely have bugs.
Prices were increased. So what? If you think you don't get enough quality for the money you pay, don't use Kyun.
We already "admitted" about the support chat not showing times. You made a suggestion which I thanked you for, and believe it or not, I forwarded that to Naphtha.
What's your deal? It's clearly you posting all these reviews. Also we don't add context, the admins of kycnotme do.
It's clearly you posting all these reviews. No, it is not. Do you not have multiple customers? Do YOU have any supporting evidence for this claim?
Also, the user is expected to use the site in the exact way you specify? Really? And screw anyone who does it any other way than the way the developer expects? I guess that also means they SHOULDN'T check the canary, because that's down right now, and yesterday, and for who knows how long. I didn't think I would need to point out every glaring issue with the site. $ ping files.kyun.sh PING files.kyun.sh (82.153.138.99) 56(84) bytes of data. ^C --- files.kyun.sh ping statistics --- 9 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 8187ms
The above also causes some images to not load. Nice!I have a powerful GPU, and my computer fans ramp up when I allow WebGL access to your site. Luckily the browser I use blocks it by default. The price in the dashboard and the "danbo" page itself show different prices. What is going on there? The blog post talks about this but you guys are always out of stock so good luck if you ever need a new VPS. No IPv6 in Romania for whatever reason, while support for it is lower for consumers (45% according to google's statistics), I would always expect it when buying a VPS.
Forgot to mention that their own site claims their own blog is not associated with them and might be phishing when you click on a post. Amazing.
This was specifically raised by me in testing when that was added, but it was decided it would be kept. It's not there unintentionally.
Wow, even for the social media links too, like the X, Telegram, and Matrix. All of them must be unofficial, directly linked from your site. What a cope!
Kyun is nice and cheap. And most importantly they accept Monero. Just don't put your critical stuff there. If you can't afford losing access for a few hours... Then better look another place. As for my experience, I host some Minecraft/Hytale servers for me and my friends, and it's been good overall :)
The service itself is decent and cheap, and yes - they clearly state on their website that it's not meant for critical workloads, fair enough. But if you're okay with your VPS going down for days at a time on a regular basis, you're in the right place
What really kills it is the support experience. When network is down for everyone, the admins are actively joking around in the Telegram group. If you ask there what's going on, they send you to the support chat on the website. In the support chat, nobody replies for hours. Meanwhile you can see the same admins actively chatting and laughing in the group
At one point the admin publicly called half his users "retarded" in the group. Some users do write nonsense, sure but when someone has a real issue and genuinely needs help, getting "as soon as possible" and then watching the guy go back to memeing in Telegram is just frustrating
Cheap price, unstable product, terrible support culture
you realize that most tasks in general service administration, especially in this day, take some time to finish, right? what do you want me to do while i'm waiting, knit?
Fair enough, I may have misquoted the exact word - but the attitude toward users in the Telegram group was pretty clear regardless of the wording
And nobody expects you to stare at a screen while tasks run. The issue is that when users ask for a status update in the group, they get sent to support. Then support takes hours to reply. Meanwhile you're clearly active and chatting. That's the frustrating part - not the wait itself, but the runaround
i believe there was a message pinned at all times in the telegram with the current status. maybe not all of the time and if you didn't see one that's your experience and that's fair, that's on me for not implementing better ways to tell all users what's going on during times like this, at once
if you were sent to the support chat you were probably asking a question specific to your vm. providing personal tailored support to 1200 customers during a time like this is simply not possible for a company the size of kyun. if you simply asked "what's going on with kyun" i really really doubt anyone sent you to the support chat
Bought a VPS. The initial state was buggy. It said no OS was installed, but it actually was. Then their entire nodes service went down for 3!!! days. The server only worked for about 5 hours total.
Support replies fast, but doesn’t help. I always spoke with a lot of respect and was flexible throughout the whole situation, but as soon as I asked for a refund, they stopped responding completely. I never asked them to manually configure anything inside the server—I ONLY wanted a working server, NOTHING else.
During those 3 days I repeatedly asked for a refund—first directly to my Monero wallet, then at least as credit on their own site. I never got it. The worst 5 euros I’ve ever spent. DO NOT RECOMMEND.
Also, IPv6 doesn’t work—they claim it’s because of “DDoS.” So if you want internet access on your VPS, you have to buy IPv4. (2+ EUR)
Assuming it was just bad luck, I don’t really think the service is always this bad. If they at least give me a refund directly to my Monero wallet, I’m willing to change my rating to 4 stars, which is what I think it should be—excluding the fact that their nodes were down for 3 days. The support isn’t bad.
no one on the staff can issue refunds except for myself. if you haven't noticed, i had more important things to do these past days than issue refunds. i understand you're frustrated, but you have to understand we are too
i'm going through all chats now so just start another chat or send a message in your existing one to bump it if i don't get to you, i'll refund you
also, ipv6 DOES work in WA
-naphtha
I've been using Kyun for a long time. It's a good service. The UI is nice, and they offer cheap VPS with custom image options. However, uptime isn't reliable. Most of the year, everything runs fine and you won't notice a thing. But those outages (once or twice annually) can drag on for hours, sometimes days.
Users need to be aware of their ToS, which clearly states:
We do not guarantee uptime, availability or performance. Our services are not intended for critical operations.
So if you host something critical on their infrastructure, that's your own fault. They never committed to maintaining a 99.99% SLA. Small team, cheap prices, unreliable uptime... you can't have it all.
I went with Kyun because they're fairly cheap (cheaper than anything else I found) and support custom OS options. In the past few days however there has been unannounced downtime which seems to be continuing with servers going from online to offline and back every few hours. There was also a DOS incident a few months ago. The servers seem to have kind of high latency on good days too.
I cannot recommend kyun.sh based on recent experiences. The domain experienced extended downtime, and when users inquired about a resolution timeline, the owner responded with hostility, explicitly threatening account bans for merely asking for an estimated time of arrival. This lack of transparency and adversarial approach toward paying customers raises serious concerns about professionalism and customer service standards. There are better alternatives available that treat their userbase with basic respect. https://fileditchfiles.me/file.php?f=/alpha2/d6afce2071a17a932327/pasted_file.png
Added context: New account during incident window, no first-hand details, pattern matches coordinated wave
The owner really needs a hundred and one people badgering him (and threatening him with LE for no reason) when he's trying to restore services. And let me repeat, the Telegram and Matrix rooms both say in the description: "For support, use the chat on the website." Did you even try to contact us on the livechat?
tell me please how would one contact the live chat if the whole site is down?, also there is no announcement Channel nor is there some form of External place where one may receive a status update
If the site is down, then consider the status to be offline, with us working to bring it back online as fast as possible. Despite not officially providing support on any of the chat rooms, the owner was posting updates, and we were responding to people on there. The point is that it's irrelevant what the owner says to you, it's a chatroom not official support.
I should add, we have been transparent all this time about what the mess up was, you just needed to ask as in support chat, or read message history in the chat rooms.
that i have to critique, it was never clear what the issue was, the term which was used was "have to restart all servers", "migration" and then it was restarted the same Minute, which was announced where? https://t.me/realkyun as you people have messaged below that "We're overloaded with support chats right now", so even if the site were to work you did not respond to any support chats i have made
Yes we were overloaded with support chats, meaning an answer may be delayed, but you would get an answer, and we did end up answering all the chats. We answer when we can, you don't automatically get priority over other customers.
Downtime was not warned and from what i understand because the Owner wanted to whateve he wanted to do with vibecoding no warning, just instantanious reboot Lack of Communication, Sassy Responses, bans from the Channel when questioned
Added context: New account during incident window, no first-hand details, pattern matches coordinated wave
It's clear that this is one user writing all these new 1 star comments, (just scroll down, you'll see many more marked as spam that have the same "Owner" capitalized).
Also rather amusing that he threatened to report us to law enforcement.
I was going to suggest that anyone having a bad day should read the messages he sent on TG, but unfortunately he deleted them, perhaps he has something to hide? Remember, the TG and Matrix room say "For support, use the chat on the website.", so any support you get there is because someone wanted to help.
Now for the official "representative of what Kyun is" part: Unfortunately some updates we pushed caused some downtime, as the update messed up the networking, but everything is back up now. We apologize for the disruption caused.
Great prices for the performance, decently stable, good features overall. The "AI Summary" on kycnot.me is wrong, it DOES have IPv6. Wouldn't use it for anything business related or anything too critical but for personal stuff it's good especially for the price. Do NOT interact with their chat rooms on Matrix/Telegram. Also their warrant canary is expired by 2 days so if you are schizo keep that in mind
Can't seem to edit my review but would've been at most a 4 star, maybe 3, if I knew about this upcoming longer downtime. I guess the shorter downtime I made this review after was just foreshadowing.. STILL can't even ping my server despite the other responses and haven't gotten a response from support for a bit from their site.. (only way to force their hand in giving support is via their telegram, told me to reboot and now the server won't even start.. status page says the node is fine). They will tell you "no support in telegram" but you need to just ignore them and keep posting to get a response/fix, because despite their site saying "support online" (they will not respond there often).
We're overloaded with support chats right now, so we apologize if we don't reply to you as we are aware of the problems and are working to fix them for the danbos that remain affected. The status page can't detect this type of downtime, it showing as up isn't intentional.
Thanks for the review, our aim is to be completely transparent, so I should be clear that the Romania location does have IPv6 temporarily disabled to help against DDoS attacks, otherwise IPv6 works fine in US.
I've been a customer for multiple years now and it's a generally really good service focused on the customers, with pro-customer features you don't find many other places. Completely private no-bullshit signup, automatic refund if I delete my server before time and I can upgrade and downgrade my server as I please. The only downsides are the occasional hiccups in the RO datacenter and no IPv6 in RO as well.
Nice service! Very cheap as they do offer servers without ipv4, which halves the cost down to 1.5€ a month
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I've been a Kyun customer for approximately 2 years. I have had issues with uptime in the past, but this is to be expected with a newer host operating at a low cost. I've had no problems with adding funds and managing VMs, and I've had good experience contacting Naphtha when there have been service issues, which I find to be uncommon nowadays. Definitely worth it, especially at the super low cost.
Very bad provider. After a long-time of working good and having good experiences they terminated my funds (400$) this is not appreciated, i texted the admin and i got ignored fully.
Don't top-up to big of amounts on your account here because they will take it.
Added context: Not enough supporting evidence for the claims. Provided evidence (screenshot) provides no useful information to verify the claims. Rating disabled.
to add to nth's comment, our TOS at https://kyun.host/docs/tos clearly states:
"If the abuse is severe (e.g. CSAM) and/or repeated, your services and user account, including all balance, may be terminated immediately."
and yes, we have NEVER terminated anyone outside of serial phishers
- naphtha
While I don't know which user you were, no user with a balance that high has been terminated, and the only users we have taken this type of action against have been hosting phishing pages (and continuing to do so despite multiple warnings) which is against our AUP.
I signed up and paid with Monero and have had virtually no issues since. I absolutely love the UI; it’s minimal but still looks amazing (hope this is never changed). The prices are incredibly fair, and I appreciate that you can change your box's specs and IPv4 whenever u want through the panel. I also value the honest answers in the FAQ regarding trust and encryption of your box. I haven’t ran into any uptime issues yet like others have mentioned, although it hasn’t been very long.
Cheap. Fast and responsive but useless support. Occasional outages in Bucharest. Things break sometimes. Pretty UI turns your laptop into an air fryer. You get what you pay for.
Thanks for the review. When our upstream is responsible for the problem, the best our support can do is relay information back to the users.
We do have a CLI tool for users with older laptops that can't handle our modern website, but keep in mind that it is in beta: https://git.kyun.host/nthpyrodev/kyuncli
The service is very good, nice UI/UX and i'm really excited waiting for on-demand linux containers. The only issue is uptime.
Are they still around? Can't access their website, nor their Matrix. Can't access my VPS either...
Either than that, had 0 issue on their US VPS for the 6 months I've been using them.
Taking 1 star off for lack of communication when their service is down.
Thanks for the review. We apologize for the disruption caused. Regarding communication, the Matrix server/room and Telegram chat were both working (The Matrix server wasn't down), and we communicated clearly in these chats. We could not communicate via the site as it was offline, so we'd appreciate feedback/ideas on how we can better communicate going forward.
cool service. I've been using it for half a year. Everything is super and registration is good and there is TOP and mail or matrix can be linked. And you can choose the service characteristics yourself. But one problem. uptime. It's very sad that once a month or two weeks the servers go down for 1-5 hours. (I only use Romanian ones. I don't know about American ones) But I recommend it to everyone. They are developing and I hope they will fix the problem.
Thanks for the review. As a newer service, we do face challenges such as downtime caused by attacks, etc, which we work hard to prevent. We were able to mitigate the most recent attacks and have implemented measures to prevent them. So in the future, most downtime should be short, if at all.
holy FUCK i need cheap vps for irc bouncer and this service is the absolute cheapest nonkyc albiet overkill specs gullo hosting offers nat vps for 3.50USD/yearly but requires kyc and very trustable with communication and canary WISH it accepted cash by mail as alternative option to monero
The fact you mention the canary being trustable is very suspicious as it was expired until you posted this. I believe Kyun may be reviewing themselves.
If we were reviewing ourselves, we certainly wouldn't be high or drunk while doing so. :)
trustable as in availability of canary cock.li canary which is renewed today https://archive.ph/pOewE is always expired so my expections are the same
Sorry, same person but forgot to save my login. The cock.li canary is not even expired in that snapshot. The kyun.host canary was expired (https://web.archive.org/web/20250711022022/https://files.kyun.host/canary.txt Sadly this only shows the 11th but it is still expired.) up until the 17th which is 22 days, over twice the stated update time which is 10 days.
ToS states that your account and access to services can be suspended
It's normal for services like Kyun to be able to suspend accounts to keep our IPs clean and block abusers. If we didn’t, users like you would face disruption.
Amazing prices, love the service! ALERT, THE CANARY IS EXPIRED, THIS MEANS LAW ENFORCEMENT MAY HAVE SUBPOENAED DATA! https://files.kyun.host/canary.txt
They finally updated it after seeing the comment. The canary this comment was referring to (https://web.archive.org/web/20250711022022/https://files.kyun.host/canary.txt) was active until the end of the 17th, it was expired for 12 days with no law enforcement requests, hopefully they improve this in the future.
Love them, they have not been the most reliable provider uptime-wise but they do not make silly promises and are clear, so you know what you are getting. They are Monero OGs and the UI is very cool (IMO). Been using their servers for a long time now and I would recommend them for non-critical infras (lately the uptimes have been really good, so maybe even for critical ones in the future)
Apart from occasional downtime (which there hasn't been much of recently anyway), they're very cheap unlike most other privacy focused vps providers.
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Indeed they have quite low uptime, but ultra cheap without IPv4. If you need lightweight and non critical server then I would recommend Kyun. 99.84% uptime but 1.4€ is great trade-off for me.
Have been using a VPS with them for many months. They have been some occasionnal outages. I really like their design and panel. The only real issue I have with this service is that (at least in their RO region), they do not own their servers, network or IPS. This mean that they are at the mercy of their (documented) unreliable provider (ihostart). I will still use them but I do back-up my data often because of that.
Let me break down exactly why this is a red flag: First, extended downtime happens to anyone, that's forgivable. What isn't forgivable is the communication pattern shown here. The owner admits they're "working on it" (good), but then immediately pivots to threatening bans for follow-up questions (very bad). This indicates several problems: no status page or public communication channel exists (forcing users to ask directly), zero patience for reasonable customer inquiries, and a fundamental misunderstanding that customers asking about downtime aren't being annoying; they're engaged users who want to keep using your product. When a service owner treats basic questions as bannable offenses, it suggests either severe burnout, ego issues, or both. Either way, that instability means your data or access could disappear at any moment because the person running things can't handle normal interactions. Not worth the risk.
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LMAO what kind of clown show is kyun.sh?? The whole site's been dead, people just wanna know when it's coming back, and the owner throws a tantrum like a child and starts waving around ban threats 💀 Bro literally said "any more messages asking me about this you get banned", like dude, you're running a service, people are gonna have questions. Maybe don't be a power-tripping manchild? Hard pass on this garbage.
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Domain's down. Asked for ETA. Got threatened with a ban. Owner's toxic. Avoid kyun.sh. Simple as that. https://u.pone.rs/chqjghnk.png
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"all systems operational", systems are in fact not Operational
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very unprofessional communication from the Owner
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Kyun services got more expensive a few days ago, downtime is so the existing users pay more when i spoke about this, i got banned
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No Email answer after ask why server off
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No Announcement on x.com about any server downtime
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server suddenly down, lost data
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Server Down???? No Warning????
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Server Offline, No Support Messages
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Lack of Communication when owner deliberality caused Downtime
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Servers are down and the Owner is not responding to the Question, keeps posting memes no ETA nothing
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so the Owner is not resolving issue due to the downtime the Servers are experiencing and is either dismissive or straight up saying "cuz i do what i want bitch"
Server Down and no response in Support
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Assuming that you are not the spammer posting multiple spam comments: We were swamped with new support chats, so we apologize if we missed yours. The issue is now resolved and Kyun is back.
"The issue is now resolved" no <3, just because your LLM tells you works, does not mean it does.
solid service. minor uptime issues but great support alongside a great GUI. naphtha called me a few slurs, 100% would purchase from again. great VM pricing and great storage pricing (5 euros/TB/mo is goated. i love hosting my totally legitimately acquired videos on here!)
10/5 would get called a nigger by naphtha again