Why Monero and not Bitcoin for hosting
Bitcoin is pseudonymous, not private. Every payment is a public record of sender address, receiver address and amount, and chain-analysis firms sell the service of linking those addresses to exchange accounts that did KYC. If you bought coins on an exchange with your ID and paid a host from the same wallet, the chain is: your name, the exchange withdrawal, the payment, the server’s IP. A single subpoena closes that loop.
Monero breaks the chain by default. Ring signatures hide which output was actually spent, stealth addresses mean the payment address on the blockchain is single-use and unlinkable to the one you were shown, and RingCT hides the amount. An observer of the Monero chain sees that a transaction happened, not who paid whom or how much. For hosting, where the thing you are protecting is the link between you and a server IP, that is exactly the property you want.
BitVPS accepts Monero alongside Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana and cards. Everything below applies to XMR specifically; the same checkout handles the other coins.
What BitVPS learns when you pay in XMR
Be clear about what a crypto payment does and does not hide. When you order, we store: the email address you gave for the access link, the plan, location and operating system you chose, the number of days you paid for, and the invoice (quoted in USD) that the payment processor marked as paid. We see that invoice number X was settled in Monero. We do not see your wallet, your other transactions or where the funds came from, and neither does anyone looking at the Monero blockchain.
The payment processor sees one incoming Monero transaction to a one-time address it generated for your invoice. There is no account with them and no KYC for payments of this size. Once the server exists, the hosting layer can of course see it: its IP, its traffic volume and the destinations of that traffic. Monero protects how you paid, not what the server does afterwards. The Tor and anonymous-VPS guides cover the rest.
Step by step
- Open Configure a server. Pick a plan (the table on the pricing page shows every plan’s price per location), a location, and an operating system.
- Choose SSH key authentication and paste a public key if you have one; otherwise a root password is generated for you and delivered with the access link. Keys are better: nothing secret has to travel by email.
- Set the number of days with the slider (1 to 365). Crypto orders are always prepaid; the price is the monthly rate divided by 30, times the days. There is no subscription to cancel later.
- Select Crypto as the payment method, then XMR. The page shows a small per-coin minimum (a few dollars); if your order is below it, add a day or two.
- Enter the email address that should receive the access link. An alias or a mailbox created for this purpose is fine; it does not need to be in your name.
- Place the order. The payment page shows the exact XMR amount and a one-time Monero address. Pay that amount from your wallet in a single transaction; do not round the figure.
- Wait for confirmation. Monero blocks arrive every two minutes and the processor typically credits the payment after a few of them, so the server is usually deploying within ten to twenty minutes. Bitcoin, by comparison, often takes 10 to 30 minutes just for one confirmation.
- Check the inbox you gave. The access-link email contains the server’s IP, how to log in, and both the clearnet and the .onion version of your access page.
Wallet tips that matter
- Pay from your own wallet, not straight from an exchange. An exchange withdrawal to the invoice address ties the payment to your exchange account in the exchange’s own records, even though the blockchain reveals nothing. Withdraw to a wallet you control first (Feather, Cake, Monerujo or the official GUI/CLI), then pay from there.
- Use a wallet that talks to your own node or to a node over Tor. A wallet pointed at a random public node tells that node your IP and which outputs you are scanning for. Feather and the GUI both support a built-in Tor connection; the Monero node guide shows how to run your own.
- Default fee priority is enough. Monero fees are a fraction of a cent; there is no reason to pick the slow tier and wait longer for the server.
- Keep the transaction key or TX ID until the server is live. If something goes wrong with crediting, the TX ID is what support needs to find the payment; it does not reveal anything about your wallet.
- Never reuse the invoice address. It is single-use by design; a second payment to it later will not be matched to any order.
Extending and adding to a server in XMR
A prepaid server runs until its paid period ends and is then deleted, so extend before the expiry date in the reminder email. Open your access page, choose Extend, pick a number of days, and pay in XMR exactly as before. Add-ons such as an extra IPv4 address or daily backups are bought the same way and are prepaid for the same period as the server, so one renewal covers everything. Request a fresh access link from the login page whenever you need to get back in; links are not tied to a device.
Combine it with Tor and an alias email
Monero removes the payment link. Two more steps remove the rest of the ordering trail. First, order over Tor: the whole site, checkout included, is available as an onion service, and Tor Browser handles the processor’s payment page as well. Second, use an email address that does not point at you. Alias services and privacy-focused providers work, and some are reachable over Tor themselves. With those three choices made, the only thing in our records is a throwaway address, a paid invoice and a server.
The server itself still needs the same care as any other machine you do not want attributed to you: generate a fresh SSH key for it rather than reusing your everyday one, connect over Tor when it matters, and keep personal accounts off it. The Tor guide has the SSH details.
Which plan to pick
The payment method does not restrict the plan; every plan accepts Monero. For a personal project, VPN or onion site the smallest plans (2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 40 GB NVMe from about $10/mo, or $0.35 a day) are plenty. For a Monero node choose at least 160 GB of NVMe. Configure a server, pick XMR at checkout, and the access link arrives once the payment confirms.