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.
Our end of it is equally minimal: an email address, confirmed once. Then you raise an invoice, pick Monero and pay the displayed sum from a wallet you control. Its dollar equivalent is added to your balance, and servers consume that balance hour by hour. The top-up guide linked here has 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, with 6 vCPU, 12 GB of memory and 192 GB NVMe at $18.24 a month, leaves space for the blockchain database to grow and for a wallet RPC or block explorer alongside. Fast NVMe shortens the initial sync considerably. A wiki article covers a manual pruned node install. Mining requires written approval beforehand.
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
XMR needs a number of blocks on top of your transaction before we credit it, so expect a longer wait than for stablecoins on quick chains. Keep a buffer and send more XMR early. An email reaches you, no more than daily, when funds sink below 30% of the monthly price of your running servers.
Deposits begin at $5. Only one invoice may be open, and it lapses after 24 hours without payment. A completed deposit blocks the next for 24 hours. Should funds hit zero, servers stop for 24 hours with data preserved and are deleted afterwards, which leaves time to get another XMR transfer confirmed.
Step by step guides
Written by our team and tested on DataPasa servers.
Registration needs an email and no paperwork. Like any coin, XMR deposits pass AML screening under our policy, and we request ID only when one is flagged.
The transfer stays private on the Monero chain, and the account rests on an email alone. Yet deposits are still AML screened, and what you run must respect our acceptable use policy.
Several blocks have to confirm it first, so XMR typically trails stablecoins on quick chains. If an hour passes and the invoice is still open, give support the tx hash.
Expect about 110 GB of disk and 4 GB of memory for pruned monerod. We suggest VPS-5: 6 vCPU, 12 GB and 192 GB NVMe for $18.24 a month.
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.
No. XMR deposits are final, as with every coin. The single exception to no refunds is unspent card money paid via Stripe, returned only to that same card. Consumed hours and bonus credits are never refunded.