How do I buy a VPS with Bitcoin, step by step?

What do you need before paying with Bitcoin?

BTC in a wallet or exchange account you control, a choice of plan, length and city, and ideally an SSH key.

• An account. You sign in with an account number alone; adding an email is up to you. Your account number is the only key to the account. With an email on file you can get it back; without one, a lost number cannot be recovered.
• A plan, a length and a city. New York, Dallas and Los Angeles in the United States; London, Amsterdam and Frankfurt in Europe: every plan in every city, at one price. Rentals run 1, 3, 6 or 12 months, and the longer ones cost less a month.
• An SSH key, if you have one. You log in as root over SSH. Add a public key at checkout and password login stays disabled; skip it and the team sets a temporary root password, shown in your dashboard, that you change with passwd the first time you log in. The SSH key guide shows how to make one.
• A wallet that shows its fee before sending, or an exchange that lets you withdraw to an outside address and set the amount that arrives.

How long until a Bitcoin payment is confirmed?

About 10 minutes per confirmation on average, and each block mined on top of yours counts as one more. Bitcoin.org gives the 10-minute average and warns that blocks are found at random, so a confirmation can come much sooner or much later. The Bitcoin developer guide counts one confirmation per block (both read on 3 November 2026). How many we wait for on Bitcoin is in the table of the payment steps above.

Two things stretch the wait:

• A fee below what the network is taking at that moment. Bitcoin.org notes that such a payment may wait considerably longer for its first confirmation.
• A crowded block space. Fees per byte rise with demand, so a fee rate that cleared quickly last week may sit in the queue today.

After the confirmations, the payment is checked and your balance credited, then the VPS is built. A team member sets up every VPS by hand after your payment confirms, within 24 hours; your dashboard follows the build and then shows the IP address.

How much is the Bitcoin network fee, and who pays it?

You do, on top of the amount shown, and it depends on the size of your transaction in bytes, not on how much BTC it moves. The Bitcoin developer guide, read on 3 November 2026, says fees are charged on the byte size of the signed transaction, rise with demand for space in blocks, and go to the miner.

• A top-up of $26.96 and one of $247.46 can cost the same network fee.
• A wallet that gathers many small coins into one payment builds a bigger transaction and pays more for it.
• Wallets usually suggest a fee rate in satoshis per virtual byte; a higher rate gets mined sooner.

On our side, nothing is added. There is no setup fee: the first order and every renewal cost the price of the rental length, nothing more. The full cost of paying in crypto is broken down in the real cost of paying for a VPS in crypto.

Why send the exact amount, and what about exchanges?

Each top-up has its own exact BTC amount, down to the last decimal, and that amount is how your payment is found and tied to your account. Send it in one transaction.

• From an exchange: some exchanges take their withdrawal fee out of the amount you type. If the address then receives less than the figure on the payment page, it no longer matches your top-up. Set the withdrawal so that the amount received is exact.
• Rate lock: the BTC amount is held for the time stated in step 1 of the payment steps; send within it.
• Closed the tab? The pending top-up stays in your account with its address and amount.
• Sent the wrong amount? Write to support with the transaction ID. A person answers support emails within 12 hours, seven days a week, including help with SSH keys, reinstalls and firewall rules.

What does a Bitcoin payment leave visible?

Everything that happens on the chain: Bitcoin.org’s privacy page, read on 3 November 2026, calls every Bitcoin transaction public, traceable and permanently stored. Anyone who learns one of your addresses can follow the amounts and dates around it. The same page recommends a fresh receiving address for each payment and notes that nodes relaying transactions can log IP addresses.

A withdrawal from an exchange that verified your identity carries that link into its own records, whatever the host asks. On our side, the record is written down. No KYC is not invisibility: every payment sits on a public blockchain, our billing links your account number to your orders and IP addresses, and your traffic crosses the data-centre network. The rest is in what a VPS host can see.

How much BTC do you need for each plan?

The price of the plan for the length you pick, in BTC at the rate the payment page locks, and never less than the $25 minimum top-up. A month of Byte ($3.21), Kilo ($6.42), Mega ($9.64) or Giga ($19.28) costs less than that minimum, so part of the top-up stays on your balance after the order; what happens to that remainder is set out with the payment steps above.

Longer lengths cost less a month: Byte is $8.66 for 3 months, $15.40 for 6 and $26.96 for 12. Switch the length on the cards below to see every plan’s total.