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How CryptoVPS works
From a crypto top-up to a running server: balance, deploys, hourly billing and the server lifecycle.
1. Your balance
Everything starts with a USD-denominated balance. You top it up with cryptocurrency — Bitcoin at launch, Ethereum and Litecoin next — and the confirmed amount is credited in full, including overpayments.
One balance funds everything: every server, every provider, every location. You always see your total hourly spend, so you know exactly how long your balance lasts.
2. Deploying a server
Pick a plan, a location and a hostname — in the dashboard or over the API. We provision the server on the underlying cloud provider via their API, and in about 60 seconds you have a dedicated IPv4 and root access over SSH.
The hourly price is fixed at deploy time. If our catalog prices change later, servers you already run keep the price they started with.
3. Hourly billing
Each server deducts its hourly price from your balance for every hour it exists — running or stopped. Destroy a server and the charges stop the same hour. There is no minimum commitment: a server that lived 3 hours costs 3 hours.
4. When the balance runs out
We never silently delete your data. At zero balance your servers are suspended and you get a grace period to top up, with warnings sent before and during it. Only after the grace period expires are servers permanently removed.
Under the hood
CryptoVPS maintains accounts with each cloud provider and orchestrates them through a single provisioning layer with status synchronization — if anything diverges between us and the provider, it is reconciled within a minute. Your servers are ordinary cloud instances; we add the payment rail, the privacy boundary and one consistent API on top.