Monero hides amounts, senders and receivers on its blockchain by default. For many people that is simply how money should work, and paying a hosting bill should not mean publishing their wallet history. Topping up with XMR lets you keep your hosting payments separate from the rest of your finances without giving us a card or a bank account.
On our side the account needs only an email address. You confirm it, create an invoice, choose Monero and send the amount shown on the payment page from your own wallet. The dollar value is credited to your balance, and every server you run is charged from it by the hour. The top-up guide linked on this page shows each step.
What we check, and what we do not
We want to be clear about this. DataPasa Limited is registered in England and Wales, and all crypto deposits, Monero included, go through AML screening for sanctions and illicit sources before they are credited. A deposit that is flagged may be held, and in that case we may ask for identity verification. Paying in XMR does not bypass these checks.
What we do not do is ask for documents at sign-up or when you top up normally. Most customers never hear from compliance at all. We also enforce our acceptable use policy on every server regardless of how it was paid for, which keeps our IP ranges clean for everyone who uses them.
Running a pruned Monero node
If you use Monero, running your own node is the best way to use it privately, because your wallet then talks to a daemon you control instead of a public remote node. A pruned monerod node keeps about a third of the blockchain data while still verifying everything, and needs roughly 110 GB of disk and 4 GB of RAM.
VPS-5 gives you 6 vCPU, 12 GB RAM and 192 GB NVMe for $18.24 a month, which leaves room for the database to grow and for a wallet RPC or block explorer next to it. NVMe storage helps a lot during initial sync. Our wiki has a step by step guide that installs a pruned node by hand. Mining needs written approval first.
Disk: about 110 GB for a pruned node.
RAM: about 4 GB.
Recommended plan: VPS-5.
Installation: by hand, following the step by step guide in our wiki.
Timing your XMR top-ups
Monero transfers need several network confirmations before they are credited, so a top-up can take longer than a stablecoin transfer on a fast network. Leave some margin and top up before your balance gets low. We email you when it falls below 30% of the monthly cost of your active servers, at most once a day.
The minimum top-up is $5 and you can have one pending invoice at a time, which expires after 24 hours if unpaid. After a successful top-up the next one is available 24 hours later. If the balance runs out, servers are suspended with data kept for 24 hours before they are deleted, so there is time to send more XMR.
Step by step guides
Written by our team and tested on DataPasa servers.
You sign up with an email only and no documents. Deposits are screened under our AML policy, and identity verification is requested only if a deposit is flagged.
Monero keeps the transfer private on its blockchain, and we only need an email for the account. Deposits are still AML screened, and your server use must follow our acceptable use policy.
Monero needs several network confirmations, so it usually takes longer than stablecoins on fast networks. If the invoice still shows unpaid after an hour, contact support with the transaction ID.
A pruned monerod node needs about 110 GB of disk and 4 GB of RAM. VPS-5 with 6 vCPU, 12 GB RAM and 192 GB NVMe for $18.24 a month is our recommendation.
Crypto mining is not allowed without written approval from us, so ask support before you start. Running a pruned Monero node, a wallet RPC or other blockchain software is fine without any approval.
Refunds of unused balance are paid in USDT on ERC20, BEP20 or TON, or USDC on ERC20 or Solana. Hours already used and bonus credits are not refundable.