Top up with ETH on Ethereum, Arbitrum or BNB Smart Chain, or with the ERC-20 tokens in your wallet, and run a KVM server in Germany billed by the hour.
The network decides how much you pay in gas to send your top-up. Ethereum mainnet is the most expensive, and during busy periods the fee on a small transfer can be noticeable. It makes sense when your ETH is already there and you top up a larger amount at once, for example a few months of server time.
Arbitrum is a layer 2 rollup where transfers cost far less than on mainnet, which makes it the natural choice for small and regular top-ups. BNB Smart Chain is also cheap to send on and is supported by most exchanges. Always send on exactly the network shown on the invoice, because funds sent on another chain will not be credited automatically.
Small, frequent top-ups: Arbitrum or BNB Smart Chain.
Large top-ups from a mainnet wallet: Ethereum.
Minimum top-up: $5, one pending invoice at a time.
Always match the network shown on the invoice.
Paying with ERC-20 tokens
If you hold stablecoins, USDC and DAI give you a top-up that equals the dollar amount you send, apart from gas. USDC is accepted on Ethereum, Arbitrum, BNB Smart Chain, Polygon and Avalanche, and DAI on Ethereum, Polygon and BNB Smart Chain. That is handy when you get paid in stablecoins for dApp work and want to cover infrastructure from the same wallet.
Tokens such as LINK, UNI, SHIB and PEPE are accepted as well. They are converted to US dollars when the deposit is credited, so your balance and all server prices stay in dollars afterwards. The full list of accepted tokens and networks is in the table on this page, and the top-up guide walks through the payment screens.
What Ethereum developers run on our servers
Most Web3 projects need ordinary servers more than they need their own chain client. Typical workloads are dApp backends and APIs, subgraph style indexers that read from an RPC provider into PostgreSQL, keeper and liquidation bots, relayers, webhook listeners, and front ends. A plan with 2 to 4 vCPU and NVMe storage covers most of these comfortably.
An Ethereum full node is a different matter. It needs far more disk than our plans offer, so we do not recommend it here. Use a hosted RPC endpoint and run your own logic next to it instead. Lighter blockchain software fits well, and running nodes of that size is allowed under our acceptable use policy.
Hourly billing for test deployments
Smart contract work often means short lived environments: a staging backend for an audit, a load test before launch, or a fork of your stack to reproduce a bug. With hourly billing you order a server, use it for as long as the task takes and delete it. VPS-3 with 2 vCPU and 4 GB RAM costs $7.09 a month, or about one cent per hour.
Every server is a KVM virtual machine in Falkenstein, Germany, with full root access and a choice of Ubuntu, Debian, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, CentOS or FreeBSD. Deployment takes a few minutes. When the balance falls below 30% of the monthly cost of your servers, we send an email so you can top up again in ETH.
Step by step guides
Written by our team and tested on DataPasa servers.
ETH is accepted on Ethereum mainnet, Arbitrum and BNB Smart Chain. Choose the network when you create the invoice and send on exactly that network.
Arbitrum and BNB Smart Chain usually cost much less in fees than Ethereum mainnet. Mainnet makes more sense for larger top-ups where the gas is a small share of the amount.
Yes. USDC, DAI, LINK, UNI, SHIB, PEPE and other tokens are accepted. They are converted to US dollars when the deposit is credited to your balance.
We do not recommend it. An Ethereum full node needs more disk than our plans provide. Our servers are a good fit for dApp backends, indexers and bots that use a hosted RPC endpoint.
No documents are needed to sign up, only an email. Deposits are screened under our AML policy, and verification is requested only if a deposit is flagged.
Unused balance is refunded in USDT on ERC20, BEP20 or TON, or USDC on ERC20 or Solana, not in ETH. Hours already used and bonus credits are not refundable.