Updated 2026-05-03

Monero VPS hosting — paid in XMR, deployed in 60 seconds

A Monero-friendly VPS is more than a server that "accepts XMR"; it is one whose checkout, refund flow and customer record are designed around Monero's privacy properties — RingCT mempool privacy, stealth addresses, no chain-analysis tracking, viewkey-optional support and refunds back to a destination you choose. Cryptoservers settles every invoice to internal XMR float; pay in XMR directly, or pay in any other coin and our gateway routes it to XMR before it reaches us. ~2-minute settlement, no KYC, deployed in roughly 60 seconds.

Deploy with XMR How XMR pays

First-confirmation deploy Integrated addresses No chain-analysis ~60 s provisioning

How XMR payment works at Cryptoservers

Six steps from "click deploy" to "ssh root@". The longest stretch is the on-chain confirmation; everything on our side runs in parallel so the orchestrator has the VM ready by the time the block lands.

1Invoice generated. You pick a plan and region in /deploy/ and select Monero. We create an invoice line bound to a fresh subaddress on our XMR receive wallet — a one-shot address that has never been used before and will never be reused.
2Integrated address shown. Checkout displays an integrated address (subaddress + payment id baked into a single string) and the QR code beside it. Any modern Monero wallet recognises the format and pre-fills the transaction.
3You broadcast the transaction. Sign in your wallet of choice — CLI, GUI, Feather, Cake, Stack, Monerujo, Edge, Ledger via Monero GUI — and broadcast. The mempool sees a Bulletproof-protected commitment; nobody sees the amount or the source UTXOs.
4First confirmation (~2 minutes). Monero block time is roughly 2 minutes (Difficulty Adjustment Algorithm targets a 2-minute average). On the first confirmation we mark the invoice "confirmed" for VPS-tier amounts. Larger orders wait the standard ten confirmations recommended by the Monero project.
5Orchestrator deploys the VM. In parallel with steps 3 and 4 — the orchestrator pre-stages the disk image and the network ACLs the moment the address is hit at the mempool layer, so by the time the block confirms the VM is already running.
6SSH credentials emailed. IPv4, IPv6 prefix, root password (or your provided pubkey) and panel one-time link land in your inbox. Median total elapsed time, payment to root login, is under three minutes.

For the longer-form treatment of how each coin is settled, including the failure modes and the refund flow, see our <a href="/guides/crypto-payment-flow/">crypto payment flow guide</a> and the <a href="/guides/bitcoin-vs-monero-payments/">Bitcoin vs Monero payments comparison</a>.

Why Monero (and not just Bitcoin)? Three protocol differences

Monero is not just "anonymous Bitcoin". It is a different protocol with privacy guarantees baked into every transaction by default — not as an opt-in mixer, not as a coin-join service, not as a layer-2 trick. The three primitives below are the ones that matter for hosting.

1. RingCT — confidential transactions on every send. Bitcoin amounts are transparent: open any block explorer and the full UTXO graph is yours. Monero hides amounts cryptographically with Pedersen commitments, while still letting nodes verify that "inputs equal outputs" with zero-knowledge range proofs. Even Cryptoservers, the receiver, only learns the amount because we hold the viewkey for the receive wallet — no third party on the network does.

2. Stealth addresses — every recipient is one-time. When you pay our integrated address, the on-chain output is computed as a one-time public key derived from our public viewkey. The blockchain shows a payment to a new address that nobody has seen before and that we will never reuse. Linking customer A and customer B to "the same Cryptoservers wallet" is impossible from public data.

3. Bulletproofs+ — efficient range proofs. The cryptographic proof that the hidden amount is non-negative is implemented with Bulletproofs (later Bulletproofs+), a logarithmic-size argument that is materially smaller and faster than the original Borromean ring signatures. Practically: lower fees, smaller mempool footprint, faster validation — the protocol is privacy-by-default at no cost to throughput.

Combined, these primitives mean the on-chain record of your VPS purchase is <em>not</em> "this wallet paid this hosting company $39.99". It is "an unknown wallet sent an unknown amount to a one-time address that nobody but the receiver can identify as belonging to Cryptoservers." Bitcoin can be hardened with coinjoins and fresh wallets; Monero starts there.

Plan grid for Monero buyers

Same five tiers as the main /vps/ page — same hardware, same network, same SLA — laid out as a single comparison table for the XMR-paid checkout. All prices are quoted in USD and converted to XMR at the spot rate the moment your invoice is generated.

Tier	vCPU	RAM	NVMe	Bandwidth	Price
Starter AMD EPYC 7443P	2	4 GB DDR4 ECC	60 GB	1 Gbps unmetered	$16.99/mo
Growth AMD EPYC 7443P	4	8 GB DDR4 ECC	120 GB	2.5 Gbps unmetered	$26.99/mo
Business Intel Xeon Gold 6430	6	16 GB DDR5 ECC	240 GB	5 Gbps unmetered	$39.99/mo
Pro Intel Xeon Gold 6430	8	24 GB DDR5 ECC	400 GB	5 Gbps unmetered	$54.99/mo
Scale AMD EPYC 9454P	12	32 GB DDR5 ECC	640 GB	10 Gbps unmetered	$69.00/mo

Deploy and pay in XMR

Run a Monero node on a Monero VPS

Hosting a public-facing Monero remote node is one of the most common workloads on a Cryptoservers VPS — sizing, port hygiene, and what the workload actually costs in CPU and bandwidth.

A Monero <strong>full node</strong> downloads, verifies and relays the entire blockchain. As of mid-2026 that is roughly 220 GB and growing about 30 GB per year — call it 250 GB minimum, 400 GB comfortable. Sync from a cold start currently takes 12–24 hours on Gen4 NVMe; subsequent operation is steady-state with about 3–5 GB of inbound and outbound traffic per day, mostly transaction relay and block propagation.

Recommended sizing on Cryptoservers tiers:

Pruned node: keeps only the last 1/8 of the chain. Fits in roughly 80 GB. The Starter tier (60 GB NVMe) is just below the line and the Growth tier (120 GB) is the practical minimum.
Full node: Business tier (240 GB NVMe, 16 GB DDR5 ECC) is comfortable for a single node serving public RPC. Pro tier (400 GB) is the recommendation if you also want to keep a few months of headroom and run a wallet-RPC alongside the node.
Public remote node: open port 18089 (restricted RPC) for wallet clients to connect; keep port 18080 (P2P) open for peer relay. Pair with a TLS-terminating reverse proxy if you want nginx-rate-limited public access. We do not throttle Monero traffic and we do not block port 18080 by default.
Tor / I2P peering: Monero supports Tor and I2P transports natively. Cryptoservers explicitly allows Tor relays (including exits) and I2P routers — perfectly compatible with running a Monero node behind one.

Workload-specific guide with a copy-paste systemd unit, monerod config and firewall rules: <a href="/solutions/monero-node/">/solutions/monero-node/</a>.

Monero VPS FAQ

Eight questions Monero buyers ask us most. Same answers we give over email and IRC.

How long does an XMR payment take to confirm at Cryptoservers?

We deploy on the first network confirmation, which on Monero is typically 2 minutes (one block). For larger invoices we wait for ten confirmations (~20 minutes) per the Monero project recommendation, but for the standard VPS price tiers a single confirmation is sufficient and the orchestrator already starts spinning up your VM in parallel — median time from "transaction broadcast" to "SSH login" is just under 3 minutes.

Do you accept XMR via integrated addresses?

Yes. Our crypto checkout supports both classic addresses with a payment ID and integrated addresses (single string, payment ID baked in). Either works. The QR code shown at checkout is an integrated address — point any modern Monero wallet (CLI, GUI, Feather, Cake, Stack, Edge, Monerujo) at it and it will populate the entire transaction.

Can I run a Monero node on a Monero VPS?

Yes — and many of our customers do. The Monero blockchain is around 220 GB and growing roughly 30 GB per year, so for a permanent full node we recommend the Business tier (240 GB NVMe) or larger; for a pruned node 100 GB is enough. Port 18080 is open by default. We also have a workload-specific guide at /solutions/monero-node/.

Which Monero wallets work with your invoices?

All of them — the integrated address standard is universal. We have specifically tested with Monero CLI, Monero GUI, Feather Wallet, Cake Wallet, Stack Wallet, Monerujo (Android), Edge, and the official mobile apps. Hardware wallet support (Ledger Nano via Monero GUI, Trezor Safe via the Trezor Suite XMR build) also works — sign offline, broadcast online.

What if I send the wrong amount of XMR?

Underpayments stay in the invoice as a partial credit; send the difference within the invoice window (24 hours) and the deploy fires when the totals match. Overpayments are credited to your customer record — either applied to the next month or refunded to a reply address you provide (we do not auto-refund, because Monero refunds need a destination you control). Email [email protected].

Is there a transaction-fee surcharge for paying in Monero?

No. We absorb the network fee on our side. The price you see at checkout is the price you send. (Our gateway settles the inbound XMR to our internal XMR float; we never pass through a bitcoin-to-card spread.) For comparison, see our Bitcoin vs Monero payment guide.

Can I pay with Monero AND get a refund in Monero if I cancel?

Yes. Refunds within the 7-day money-back window are processed in the same coin you paid in, to a destination address you supply. We will not push XMR to a bitcoin address (that is destructive) and we will not push XMR to an exchange deposit address you cannot prove you control. Provide a fresh address from your own wallet.

Is the XMR payment confidential to Cryptoservers, or do you see the sender wallet?

On Monero, neither we nor anyone else sees the sender wallet — that is the whole point of RingCT, stealth addresses and Bulletproofs+. We see the receiving subaddress (which we generated for your invoice), the amount (decrypted with our viewkey), and the on-chain transaction id. The sending wallet, your other balances and the rest of your transaction graph are not observable to us. This is a protocol-level property, not a Cryptoservers policy.

Pay your VPS in XMR.

Five tiers, four jurisdictions, no KYC, settled on the first confirmation. Bring your own wallet.

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