Nicholas Lim

VanwaTech In approximately August 2019, Lim left Epik and announced that he had created VanwaTech, a web hosting and website security company also based in Vancouver, Washington. Through VanwaTech, Lim again began providing services to The Daily Stormer and to 8chan. According to Lim, he remained a partial owner of Epik after his departure as CTO.

On September 6, 2022, Lim confirmed that VanwaTech had begun providing CDN services to the forum Kiwi Farms, a site previously dropped by Cloudflare and DDoS-Guard following protests related to the doxxing and harassment of Clara Sorrenti. Lim stated, "We maintain a firm commitment to our role as a neutral provider of internet services and not an internet censor."

In approximately May 2023, VanwaTech suspended all services and disabled their interface. The website displayed the message, "VanwaTech LLC has suspended all services. This status page is a temporary courtesy and will be shut down soon." It was later updated to include, "Our terms of service reserve the right for us to terminate users of our services at our sole discretion".

Views Lim has said that his choices to provide services to far-right clients who have been denied services by other internet providers are not based in support of their views, but a "maximalist" belief in freedom of speech. Lim has said that he believes restrictions on online speech are a greater danger to the United States than extremist violence, and that "we are one foot away from Nineteen Eighty-Four".

William Turton and Joshua Brustein writing in Bloomberg Businessweek said of Lim's defense of his extremist clientele, "At best, his apolitical framing comes across as naive; at worst, as preposterous gaslighting".

In an April 2021 interview, Lim expressed intent to pivot in some ways away from serving predominantly extremist organizations, and instead to focus on providing services to pornographic websites.