Why pay for a VPS with a stablecoin
Most crypto payments carry price risk: you agree an amount in BTC or XMR, and by the time the transaction confirms the fiat value has drifted. For a small server that rarely matters, but if you budget in dollars — or hold dollars precisely because your local currency is losing value — that volatility is friction you don’t want. Tether (USDT) is a stablecoin designed to track the US dollar, so one USDT is meant to be worth roughly one dollar. The number on the invoice and the number you send line up.
We price plans in a stable unit and let you settle them in USDT. There is no guessing, no “pay a little extra to cover the swing,” and no refund headache when the market moves mid-order.
USDT on TRON (TRC-20) vs other chains
USDT exists on several networks — Ethereum (ERC-20), TRON (TRC-20), Solana and others — and they are not interchangeable at the wallet level. We accept USDT on TRON (TRC-20) because it is the cheapest and fastest rail for this token:
- Low fees. A TRC-20 transfer costs a small amount of TRX for energy and bandwidth — typically a fraction of what the same transfer costs on Ethereum, where gas can exceed a small VPS bill on its own.
- Fast confirmation. TRON produces a block roughly every three seconds, so a payment is visible within seconds and final within about a minute.
- Wide wallet support. Almost every custodial and non-custodial wallet that holds USDT supports the TRC-20 version.
Send only USDT on the TRON network to the address we show. USDT sent on Ethereum, BSC, Solana or any other chain will not reach us and may be unrecoverable. When your wallet asks which network to use, choose TRON / TRC-20.
How the checkout works
At checkout we show the payment details for a single order:
Network: TRON (TRC-20) <- select this network in your wallet
Address: T... (unique, shown once per order)
Amount: shown at checkout, in USDT
Order ID: 32-character token — keep it safe
The flow itself is short:
- Choose a plan. No account required; a pseudonymous one is optional if you want a dashboard.
- Get your order ID. Checkout returns a 32-character random token. Because we don’t hold your name or email, this token is how you prove the order is yours — save it. An email is optional and a disposable one is fine.
- Send the USDT. Pay the shown amount on TRON to the one-time address.
- Get provisioned. Once the transfer reaches a few network confirmations, provisioning starts and you manage the server from the panel.
The privacy trade-off — read this
We are honest about where each rail sits. Monero is our first-class, most private rail: its on-chain privacy hides amounts and addresses by default. USDT is a secondary rail, and it is less private. Two reasons:
- The ledger is public and the token is centrally issued. TRON is a transparent chain, so amounts and addresses are visible on-chain, and Tether the company can freeze specific addresses. That is the opposite of Monero’s default privacy.
- This rail may route through an optional processor. To reconcile TRC-20 payments we may use an external payment processor, OxaPay. If we do, that processor sees the on-chain payment. It does not receive your identity from us — we don’t collect one. Monero stays the more private rail because its ledger keeps amounts and addresses off public view.
If your threat model cares about payment privacy at all, pay in Monero instead. XMR keeps its amounts and addresses off the public ledger by default. Our no-logs policy covers what we store on the account side regardless of which coin you use.
Good for dollar-holders in high-inflation regions
A large share of stablecoin demand comes from people who hold USDT as a hedge against a depreciating local currency. If that is you, paying for infrastructure directly in USDT means you never have to round-trip through a volatile local currency or buy another coin first. You keep your dollars as dollars right up to the moment you spend them on a server.
That said, “stable” is a design goal, not a guarantee — a stablecoin depends on its issuer maintaining the peg and its reserves. We treat USDT as a convenient, low-volatility payment rail, not as a store of value we vouch for.
Which coin should you choose
- Privacy-critical work → Monero. Private on-chain by default.
- You already hold USDT and want price stability → USDT (TRC-20), understanding the trade-off above.
- You prefer Bitcoin → Bitcoin or Lightning, processed by OxaPay, a payment processor.
Whichever rail you use, signup is the same: a 32-character order ID, email
optional, and a .onion panel to manage the server. We are a privacy host with a
published Acceptable Use Policy — not a bulletproof host.