No-logs (host policy)
Short definition
A host's stated policy of not retaining records of customer activity beyond what's strictly required for billing and abuse handling.
No-logs is a host-policy claim that the operator does not retain records of customer activity — connection logs, content logs, traffic logs — beyond a minimal billing footprint. Strong no-logs claims include independently-audited reports (e.g. 'big-five' or specialized auditing firms verify the claim).
For offshore hosting, no-logs typically refers to the customer's VPS contents, not the customer's account-management actions. SilentHosts: account billing records are retained per tax obligations; support tickets retained 12 months; the IP address of last login is rotated every 90 days; the CONTENTS of your VPS or storage are NOT inspected, indexed, or logged. This separates 'we know you're a customer' (true) from 'we have records of what you've been doing on your server' (false).
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