What people usually mean
"I want resources nobody else is touching." This is the most common one, and it is a reasonable worry. On oversold shared hosting, a neighbour's traffic spike becomes your slow afternoon. On a VPS from a serious cloud it is much less of a problem than its reputation suggests: vCPU allocation is enforced, memory is not shared, and the disk is NVMe with per-instance limits. It is not nothing — you are still on shared silicon — but it is not the 2012 situation people remember.
"I want the biggest thing I can buy with crypto." Often the real driver, and worth checking against actual numbers before spending dedicated money. A lot of workloads that feel large are not: a busy Discord bot, a self-hosted Nextcloud for a family, a Matrix homeserver, a handful of containers behind a reverse proxy. These run comfortably on 4 to 16 GB.
"I need hardware nobody can subpoena out from under me." A dedicated box does not give you this. Whoever owns the datacentre still owns the datacentre. What actually helps is disk encryption you control and keeping less on the machine in the first place — and that is the same on dedicated hardware as on a VPS.
"I genuinely need a whole machine." Sometimes true. The cases are specific and worth naming.
When it is genuinely dedicated hardware or nothing
- Sustained heavy CPU. Video transcoding around the clock, large builds, scientific workloads. Anything where the machine is at 100% for hours rather than seconds — on a VPS you will meet the fair-use ceiling, and the host will be right to enforce it.
- Very large local storage. Tens of terabytes attached to the box. Cloud instances price disk very differently from a dedicated server with spinning drives in it.
- Nested virtualisation. Running your own hypervisor inside the machine. Most VPS products do not expose the CPU features for it.
- Hardware-level control. A specific NIC, a TPM you own, a custom kernel that cannot run under the provider's virtualisation.
- Licensing tied to physical cores. Some enterprise software prices this way and will not accept a virtualised core count.
If none of those describe you, a VPS is very likely the correct purchase, and it will be cheaper and faster to change your mind about.
What we actually sell
Virtual servers on Vultr, DigitalOcean, Hetzner and Linode, from 1 vCPU and 1 GB up to 6 vCPU and 16 GB, billed by the hour from a prepaid crypto balance. An email address is the whole signup. No card, no identity check.
The top tier is the honest boundary: if 6 vCPU and 16 GB is not enough, we are not the right shop, and we would rather tell you that on this page than after you have funded a balance. For heavier work with the same payment model, look at hosts that resell bare metal — several take crypto, and the no-KYC checklist applies to them exactly as it does to us.
The crypto part is the easy part
Whichever way you go, paying in crypto works the same: fund a balance, spend it down. Ours takes Bitcoin, Monero, Ethereum, Litecoin, USDT and USDC across several chains, plus a few hundred other coins through the checkout. Servers are billed hourly against that balance, and destroying a server stops the charge the same hour.
One thing worth being clear about, because it is where crypto hosting goes wrong for people: top-ups are final. Balance is prepayment for hosting here. It does not expire and you can spend it whenever, but it is not refundable and cannot be paid back out. That is our policy and it is stated plainly in the terms — the practical advice is to top up what you plan to spend rather than committing months ahead, which hourly billing makes easy.