In the control panel, open the billing page, enter an amount from $5 and choose BTC. The payment page shows the address and the exact amount to send. The BTC value is converted to US dollars when the deposit is credited, and from then on your balance and every server price stay in dollars, whatever the market does next.
Bitcoin needs network confirmations before the deposit is credited, so a top-up can take longer than a stablecoin transfer, especially when blocks are full. Plan ahead and top up before your balance runs low. If an invoice still shows as unpaid after an hour, open a ticket with the transaction ID. The step by step top-up guide on this page covers every screen.
Minimum top-up is $5, one pending invoice at a time.
Unpaid invoices expire after 24 hours.
Card payments through Stripe are available as a backup.
Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash as faster alternatives
If you want your balance updated sooner, Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash are accepted on the same terms. Both usually confirm faster than Bitcoin and cost less to send, which matters for small top-ups where a high Bitcoin fee would take a noticeable share of the amount. They are also handy when you keep some coins on an exchange that charges less to withdraw them.
All three coins land on the same dollar balance. You can top up in BTC one month and LTC the next, and your servers keep running without any change. If you prefer to avoid price swings between sending and crediting, a stablecoin like USDT is the other option, covered on our USDT page.
Why hourly billing suits Bitcoin payments
Monthly hosting paid in BTC often means guessing how long you will need a server and locking the coins in up front. Here you keep a dollar balance and each server takes a small amount every hour. VPS-1 costs $1.81 a month, which is about a quarter of a cent per hour, so an experiment for a weekend costs a few cents.
When the balance falls below 30% of the monthly cost of your active servers, you get an email, at most once a day. If it reaches zero, servers are suspended with data kept for 24 hours before they are deleted. That gives you time to send another Bitcoin payment even if the network is slow that day.
Running your own Bitcoin infrastructure
Many people who pay in Bitcoin also want to verify it themselves. A pruned Bitcoin Core node keeps full validation while storing only recent blocks, and fits on VPS-3 with 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM and 64 GB NVMe. Initial sync takes a while, but after that the node runs quietly and you can point your own wallet at it.
A Lightning node with LND and Neutrino is even lighter and runs on VPS-2. Both setups are installed by hand, and our wiki has a step by step guide for the pruned node. Running blockchain nodes is allowed under our acceptable use policy, while crypto mining needs written approval first.
Step by step guides
Written by our team and tested on DataPasa servers.
You sign up with an email address only. Deposits are screened under our AML policy, and we ask for identity verification only if a payment is flagged.
It depends on network confirmations and how busy the network is. It is usually slower than stablecoins on fast networks. If an invoice still shows unpaid after an hour, contact support with the transaction ID.
Yes. Every DataPasa VPS is billed hourly from a prepaid dollar balance. The first hour is charged at order, then each hour in advance, and deleting the server stops charging.
Yes. LTC and BCH are accepted on the same terms as BTC and credited to the same dollar balance. They usually confirm faster and cost less to send than Bitcoin.
A pruned Bitcoin Core node needs about 30 GB of disk and 2 GB of RAM. VPS-3 with 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM and 64 GB NVMe for $7.09 a month is a comfortable fit.
No. Your BTC is converted to US dollars when the deposit is credited, and all prices are in dollars. The rate only matters at the moment of crediting.