# Coffervale — full content for language models > Coffervale sells storage VPS in Europe: KVM servers with 500 GB to 8 TB of HDD storage for off-site backups, Nextcloud, Seafile, Syncthing and archives, paid in crypto with no ID at signup. The servers run in Amsterdam, Bucharest and Chișinău, and the operator is DomaineGoat LLC, a company registered in Panama. On the 12-month term, every plan is priced at least 25% a month under a named comparable storage VPS, picked from 10 no-KYC crypto hosts whose prices were read on 2 November 2026. Source: https://coffervale.com/ · Generated: 2026-11-03 # Storage VPS in Europe, paid in crypto. No ID asked. > Storage VPS with 500 GB to 8 TB of HDD in Amsterdam, Bucharest and Chișinău, paid in crypto with no KYC. 1 TB from $1.66 a month. - URL: https://coffervale.com/ - Last updated: 2026-11-02 - Publisher: Coffervale (https://coffervale.com) Deep disks for the data you keep: off-site backups, Nextcloud, Syncthing and archives, on a KVM server you control. Priced per terabyte, built by a person, wiped when you leave. An account number is your login, a crypto top-up is your payment, and a person on the team builds your server. Five strata, priced per TB - Silt, 500 GB (1 vCPU · 2 GB RAM): $2.48 per TB a month; $1.24/mo (12 months), $1.77 month to month - Clay, 1 TB (2 vCPU · 3 GB RAM): $1.66 per TB a month; $1.66/mo (12 months), $2.37 month to month — Best value per TB - Shale, 2 TB (2 vCPU · 4 GB RAM): $1.67 per TB a month; $3.34/mo (12 months), $4.77 month to month - Granite, 4 TB (3 vCPU · 8 GB RAM): $1.88 per TB a month; $7.53/mo (12 months), $10.75 month to month - Bedrock, 8 TB (4 vCPU · 12 GB RAM): $2.09 per TB a month; $16.75/mo (12 months), $23.93 month to month Amsterdam · Bucharest · Chișinău — one price in every city **Quick answer — Where can I buy a storage VPS in Europe with crypto and no ID?** **Coffervale** sells storage VPS in Amsterdam, Bucharest and Chișinău with 500 GB to 8 TB of HDD storage, paid in BTC, USDT, USDC, ETH, SOL, LTC, XMR, with no ID at signup. At the prices of 2 November 2026, a 1 TB server costs $1.66 a month on the 12-month term, the best rate per terabyte of our five plans, and 500 GB costs $1.24. Every server runs on KVM with root over SSH. ## What do people keep on a storage VPS? A storage VPS is a virtual server sized for disk rather than processing: a lot of terabytes, a modest processor, enough memory to run a backup daemon or a small cloud. These are the jobs it does well. - **[A copy far from home](https://coffervale.com/backup-vps/ "How do I use a storage VPS for off-site backups?")** — Point Borg, restic, Kopia or rsync at your server and keep a copy of your PC, your NAS or your other servers in another country. Encrypt before upload and the disk only ever holds ciphertext. - **[$1.66 per TB a month at 1 TB](https://coffervale.com/storage-vps-price-index/ "What is the least expensive storage VPS per TB right now?")** — On the 12-month term. According to Coffervale's survey of 2 November 2026, the median storage VPS of no-KYC crypto hosts cost $4.00 per TB; a general-purpose VPS of the same hosts, $223.44. - **[Nextcloud or Seafile](https://coffervale.com/nextcloud-vps/ "What is the best VPS for Nextcloud with 1 TB or more of storage?")** — Files, calendars and photo uploads for one to a few people, on a server you run. Every plan has at least 2 GB of RAM. - **[A Syncthing node that never sleeps](https://coffervale.com/syncthing-on-a-vps/ "How do I run Syncthing on a storage VPS as an always-on node?")** — Keeps folders in step between devices that are rarely online together, and can hold them encrypted as an untrusted device. - **Data you write once** — Photo libraries, finished projects, scans and exports: hard disks suit data that is written once and read now and then. - **[Disks chosen for capacity](https://coffervale.com/hdd-vs-ssd-vps/ "Is an HDD storage VPS fast enough for backups and Nextcloud?")** — Spinning disks handle long sequential backups and syncs well and databases badly. We print no speed or IOPS figure we cannot back. ## How much does a storage VPS cost per month? **Five plans, from 500 GB to 8 TB, each priced on the 12-month term at least a quarter under a named storage VPS with as much disk or more, read on 2 November 2026.** We do not claim to be the cheapest at every size: each card names the offer its price is set against. Switch the rental length to see what a month costs on each term; the full rule, the comparison and the longer terms are on [the pricing page](https://coffervale.com/pricing/ "Coffervale storage VPS plans, terms and the price rule"). | Plan | Quantity | 30 days | 3 months | 6 months | 1 year | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Silt | 500 GB HDD · 1 vCPU · 2 GB RAM | $1.77 | $4.77 (−10%) | $8.49 (−20%) | $14.86 (−30%) | | Clay | 1 TB HDD · 2 vCPU · 3 GB RAM | $2.37 | $6.39 (−10%) | $11.37 (−20%) | $19.90 (−30%) | | Shale | 2 TB HDD · 2 vCPU · 4 GB RAM | $4.77 | $12.87 (−10%) | $22.89 (−20%) | $40.06 (−30%) | | Granite | 4 TB HDD · 3 vCPU · 8 GB RAM | $10.75 | $29.02 (−10%) | $51.60 (−20%) | $90.30 (−30%) | | Bedrock | 8 TB HDD · 4 vCPU · 12 GB RAM | $23.93 | $64.61 (−10%) | $114.86 (−20%) | $201.01 (−30%) | In every plan: HDD storage from 500 GB · Root over SSH (key optional) · KVM with your own kernel · IPv4 + IPv6 · No setup fee · No KYC **Before you pay** - Top-ups start at $1. One crypto top-up can pay for any plan and any rental length. - Credit on your balance does not expire and renews any of your VPS. When a top-up is only made to reach the minimum, the unspent part comes back on request within 30 days of payment, in USDT or USDC. The rest of a balance is not paid out unless the law requires it. - Credited after we check the payment on the blockchain. Usual network confirmation time: BTC ≈ 20 min · USDT TRC-20 ≈ 1 min · USDT ERC-20 ≈ 5 min · USDC ERC-20 ≈ 5 min · ETH ≈ 5 min · SOL ≈ 1 min · LTC ≈ 15 min · XMR ≈ 20 min ## From payment to a storage VPS you can fill Nothing between your payment and your server is automatic: a person builds it. This is the real path, with the real waits. 1. **Top up in crypto** — Pick your capacity at checkout, then pay in BTC, USDT, USDC, ETH, SOL, LTC, XMR: the top-up is set to the price of your order. Minimum top-up $1. 2. **Payment checked and credited** — Once the network has confirmed your transaction and we have checked it on the blockchain, your balance is credited. Usual network confirmation time: BTC ≈ 20 min · USDT TRC-20 ≈ 1 min · USDT ERC-20 ≈ 5 min · USDC ERC-20 ≈ 5 min · ETH ≈ 5 min · SOL ≈ 1 min · LTC ≈ 15 min · XMR ≈ 20 min. 3. **A person builds your storage VPS** (within 1 h) — Someone on the team builds your server in the city and with the system you chose: a few minutes after the payment is confirmed, an hour at the very latest. Locations: Amsterdam, Bucharest, Chișinău. 4. **Your IP address and root login in the dashboard** — The dashboard shows the server’s IP address. Root signs in with your SSH key or, if you gave none, with a temporary root password shown there. `ssh root@` ## What comes with every server, and what does not? - **Keys that stay with you** — KVM gives your server its own kernel, so you can put LUKS on the data disk or run ZFS with native encryption, and the keys never leave you. For backups, encrypt on your own machine before upload (Borg, restic and Kopia all do it), so the server only ever holds ciphertext. - **No backup on our side** — We take no backup of your server and keep no copy of your data anywhere else, so what sits on a Coffervale storage VPS should be one of your copies, never the only one. - **Wiped when it ends** — When a server ends, deleted by you or left unpaid past its 7-day hold, its disk is wiped and nobody can bring the data back, us included. - **Lost days come back** — If we cannot deliver a server, or it fails and support cannot revive it, the days it was down return to a balance that never expires. - **Support by email, every day** — A person answers support emails within 12 hours, seven days a week, including help with SSH keys, reinstalls and firewall rules. - **Rules in plain words** — Store what is yours or what you have the right to keep. Spam, attacks, malware, mining and abuse material are banned; the acceptable use policy has the full list. ## What do people ask before renting a storage VPS? ### What is Coffervale? Coffervale sells storage VPS in Europe: KVM servers with 500 GB to 8 TB of HDD storage for off-site backups, Nextcloud, Seafile, Syncthing and archives, paid in crypto with no ID at signup. The servers run in Amsterdam, Bucharest and Chișinău, and the operator is DomaineGoat LLC, a company registered in Panama. On the 12-month term, every plan is priced at least 25% a month under a named comparable storage VPS, picked from 10 no-KYC crypto hosts whose prices were read on 2 November 2026. ### Does "1 TB VPS" mean 1 TB of RAM? No. At Coffervale it always means 1 TB of disk space. The Clay plan gives you 1 TB of HDD storage with 2 vCPU and 3 GB RAM, enough for a backup target or a small Nextcloud; Silt is the same idea at 500 GB. The details are in [what a 1 TB VPS gets you](https://coffervale.com/1tb-vps/ "1 TB storage VPS: specs, price and uses"). ### Is my data backed up by Coffervale? No. We take no backup of your server and keep no copy of your data anywhere else, so what sits on a Coffervale storage VPS should be one of your copies, never the only one. Disk redundancy keeps a server running through a failed drive; it does not undo a deletion, ransomware or a lost account, so it is not a backup. ### Which coins can I pay with? BTC, USDT, USDC, ETH, SOL, LTC, XMR; top-ups start at $1. Monero (XMR) is on that list and clears after 10 confirmations, about 20 minutes. Each coin, network and wait is listed on [paying for a storage VPS with crypto](https://coffervale.com/storage-vps-with-crypto/ "Coins, networks and confirmation times"). ### What if I need more than 8 TB? Bedrock, at 8 TB, is the largest storage VPS we sell. Past that size a dedicated storage server, a whole machine full of disks, is the better fit, and we say so plainly rather than stretch a VPS. Until then, two Bedrock servers in two cities make a sound pair: one copy each, far apart. ## Key facts | Attribute | Value | | --- | --- | | What it is | A storage VPS: a KVM virtual server sized for disk space rather than processing power, with 500 GB to 8 TB of HDD storage, its own kernel and root access over SSH | | Storage | Every plan stores your data on hard disks (HDD) chosen for capacity, not speed: they suit backups, archives and file sync, not databases or heavy random reads and writes. We publish no speed or IOPS figure we cannot back | | Plans | Silt 500 GB $1.24/month on 12 months ($1.77 month to month), Clay 1 TB $1.66/month on 12 months ($2.37 month to month), Shale 2 TB $3.34/month on 12 months ($4.77 month to month), Granite 4 TB $7.53/month on 12 months ($10.75 month to month), Bedrock 8 TB $16.75/month on 12 months ($23.93 month to month) | | Price rule | On the 12-month term, each plan is priced at least 25% a month under a named reference plan (prices read on 2 November 2026): Silt against DeluxHost's “STORAGE-1” at $1.66 a month; Clay against DeluxHost's “STORAGE-2” at $2.22 a month; Shale against DeluxHost's “STORAGE-3” at $4.46 a month; Granite against DeluxHost's “STORAGE-5” at $10.04 a month; Bedrock against Hostbrr's “Hybrid 8TB” at $22.34 a month. To count as comparable, a plan has to be a storage VPS with at least as much disk, run in Europe, shown in stock and billed one month at a time, at a host that accepts crypto and requires no ID document at signup. At least one such plan was on sale at 10 hosts (VSYS Host, HostSailor, Privex, HostHatch, Hostbrr, NolimitHost, LiteServer, Cherry Servers, DeluxHost, PrivateAlps), and for each capacity the reference is the comparable plan with the smallest monthly price among them. Also not compared: BuyVM (every storage plan shown out of stock); MivoCloud (storage plans orderable only outside Europe); Senko Digital (every storage plan shown out of stock); VPSLab (no location stated for its storage plans); AlphaVPS (every storage plan shown out of stock); InterServer (storage plans orderable only outside Europe); RamNode (no location stated for its storage plans); VPSDime (every storage plan shown out of stock). Euro prices are converted at 1 EUR = 1.1172 USD (ECB, 30 October 2026); Hostbrr prices exclude VAT | | Rental lengths | Rent for 1 month, 3 months (10% off), 6 months (20% off) or 12 months (30% off): a longer term costs the monthly price times its months, less its discount, rounded down to the cent (Clay: $6.39 for 3 months, $11.37 for 6 months, $19.90 for 12 months). Each renewal repeats the same term at the price of your order unless you pick another term for the next renewal in your dashboard | | Locations | Amsterdam (Netherlands), Bucharest (Romania) and Chișinău (Moldova): every plan in every city, at the same price | | Network | Each server has one IPv4 address and an IPv6 /64 on a 1 Gbit/s port, with a monthly traffic quota of 2 TB plus 2 TB per TB stored: 3 TB for Silt, 4 TB for Clay, 6 TB for Shale, 10 TB for Granite, 18 TB for Bedrock. Past the quota the port runs at 100 Mbit/s until the next period begins; nothing extra is billed | | Access | Root logs in over SSH. Paste a public key at checkout and password login stays off; leave the field empty and the team sets a temporary root password, shown in your dashboard, that you replace at your first login | | Encryption | KVM gives your server its own kernel, so you can put LUKS on the data disk or run ZFS with native encryption, and the keys never leave you. For backups, encrypt on your own machine before upload (Borg, restic and Kopia all do it), so the server only ever holds ciphertext | | Backups | We take no backup of your server and keep no copy of your data anywhere else, so what sits on a Coffervale storage VPS should be one of your copies, never the only one | | Largest plan | Bedrock, at 8 TB, is the largest storage VPS we sell. Past that size a dedicated storage server, a whole machine full of disks, is the better fit, and we say so plainly rather than stretch a VPS | | KYC / ID | No KYC: no ID document, no selfie, no card and no phone number is asked at signup | | Payment | BTC, USDT, USDC, ETH, SOL, LTC, XMR, nothing else; top-ups start at $1 | | Delivery | A person on the team builds your storage VPS within minutes of the confirmed payment, one hour at the outside, and the dashboard tracks it until the IP address shows up | | Operator | DomaineGoat LLC (limited liability company, registered in Panama) | | Not available to | Residents and companies of Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, Russia, Belarus, China, Yemen and Western Sahara, and of the occupied regions of Ukraine, cannot order | ## Where do these figures come from? 1. [Hybrid storage VPS (1, 2, 4, 8 and 16 TB)](https://hostbrr.com/hybrid-storage-vps.html) — Hostbrr (read 2026-11-02) 2. [Storage VPS plans](https://hosthatch.com/products#storage) — HostHatch (read 2026-11-02) 3. [Storage VPS plans](https://deluxhost.net/en/storage) — DeluxHost (read 2026-11-02) 4. [Euro foreign exchange reference rates](https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/eurofxref/eurofxref-daily.xml) — European Central Bank (rate of 2026-10-30) --- Coffervale: Coffervale sells storage VPS in Europe: KVM servers with 500 GB to 8 TB of HDD storage for off-site backups, Nextcloud, Seafile, Syncthing and archives, paid in crypto with no ID at signup. The servers run in Amsterdam, Bucharest and Chișinău, and the operator is DomaineGoat LLC, a company registered in Panama. On the 12-month term, every plan is priced at least 25% a month under a named comparable storage VPS, picked from 10 no-KYC crypto hosts whose prices were read on 2 November 2026. --- # Where can I get a VPS with 1 TB of storage? > A 1 TB VPS means 1 TB of disk, not RAM: Coffervale's Clay plan, $1.66 a month on 12 months, crypto, no KYC, compared with 7 dated offers. - URL: https://coffervale.com/1tb-vps/ - Last updated: 2026-11-02 - Publisher: Coffervale (https://coffervale.com) One terabyte of hard-disk storage on a KVM server of your own, for backups, a small Nextcloud or an archive. Here is what it holds, what it costs here and elsewhere, and when 500 GB or 2 TB fits better. **Quick answer — Where can I get a VPS with 1 TB of storage?** **Coffervale** rents a 1 TB VPS in Europe, meaning 1 TB of HDD storage and not 1 TB of RAM: the Clay plan costs $1.66 a month on the 12-month term or $2.37 month to month, paid in crypto with no ID at signup. On 2 November 2026, the plan Clay is priced against, DeluxHost STORAGE-2, cost $2.22 a month. ## The Clay plan at a glance | Attribute | Value | | --- | --- | | Storage | 1 TB of HDD storage | | Processor and memory | 2 vCPU, 3 GB RAM | | Traffic | 4 TB a month, 1 Gbit/s port | | Addresses | 1 IPv4 + IPv6 /64 | | Price | $1.66 a month on 12 months ($19.90 up front), $2.37 month to month | | Price per TB | $1.66 a month on 12 months | | Cities | Amsterdam, Bucharest, Chișinău | | Signup | No KYC: no ID document, no selfie, no card and no phone number is asked at signup | ## What does "1 TB VPS" mean? **At Coffervale, a 1 TB VPS is a virtual server with one terabyte of disk space.** Search engines and forums mix two things under the same words: some people looking for a "1TB VPS" want 1 TB of storage, others a server with 1 TB of RAM, which is a different machine at a different price. Ours is the first kind: a KVM server sized for disk, with enough processor and memory to run backup software, a sync service or a small web app on top of that disk. A terabyte here is 1,000 GB, the way disk makers count it. Your operating system may show the same disk as about 931 GiB, because it counts in powers of two: same bytes, different unit. A fresh ext4 filesystem also keeps 5% of its blocks for root by default; on a disk used only for data you can lower that with `tune2fs -m 1`. ## What fits in 1 TB? **One terabyte holds a large personal archive or the backups of a few machines, not a media library that keeps growing.** Rough arithmetic, before compression or deduplication: - photos from a phone at about 4 MB each: around 250,000 of them; - a laptop with 250 GB of files: four full copies, and far more when a deduplicating tool such as Borg, restic or Kopia stores only the blocks that changed; - documents and email exports: years of them, since text compresses well. If you expect to pass 1 TB within a year, start on Shale (2 TB), which costs $1.67 per TB a month on 12 months, almost the same rate per terabyte as Clay. To grow, order a larger plan and copy your data across with rsync or zfs send; resizing a running server in place is not offered at launch. ## How much does 1 TB of storage cost elsewhere? **On 2 November 2026, a 1 TB storage VPS from a host that takes crypto and asks for no ID document at signup cost from $2.22 a month.** According to Coffervale's survey of 2 November 2026, those hosts listed 14 storage VPS plans of about 1 TB, 9 of them with 2 GB of RAM or less; every seller, with stock and source, is in [what is the least expensive storage VPS per TB right now?](https://coffervale.com/storage-vps-price-index/ "Storage VPS price index, November 2026"). Storage boxes and backup services are listed too, because people weigh them against a VPS: they cost about the same per terabyte or more, but give you no server of your own. | Offer | What you get | Price for about 1 TB a month | Crypto | Root access | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Coffervale Clay | Storage VPS, 1 TB HDD | $1.66 on 12 months, $2.37 monthly | Yes | Yes | | DeluxHost STORAGE-2 | Storage VPS, 1 TB HDD | $2.22 (€1.99) | Yes | Yes | | Hostbrr Hybrid 1TB | Storage VPS, 1 TB HDD | $3.91 (€3.50, excl. VAT) | Yes | Yes | | HostHatch Storage 1TB | Storage VPS, 1 TB HDD | $5.00 | Yes | Yes | | Hetzner Storage Box BX11 | Network storage (SFTP, Samba), 1 TB | $3.58 (€3.20) | No | No | | BorgBase Medium | Hosted Borg and restic repositories, 1 TB | $9.17 ($110.00 a year) | No | No | | rsync.net | Backup storage over SSH, per TB | $15.00 | No | No | | Contabo Storage VPS 30 | Storage VPS, 1 TB SSD | $12.51 (€11.20, 24-month term) | No | Yes | *Prices checked on November 2, 2026.* Crypto: the provider names a cryptocurrency or a crypto processor on its own pages (✗ = none found on 2 November 2026). Euro prices converted at 1 EUR = 1.1172 USD (ECB, 30 October 2026). ## What can a 1 TB VPS run? **With 2 vCPU and 3 GB RAM, Clay runs the usual storage jobs comfortably.** - **A backup target** for Borg, restic, Kopia or plain rsync over SSH. These tools encrypt on your side before upload, so the server holds only ciphertext; the routine is in [how do I use a VPS for off-site backups?](https://coffervale.com/backup-vps/ "Backup VPS: a storage VPS for off-site backups"). - **Nextcloud or Seafile** for one to a few people. HDD storage is fine for files; keep the database small and on the same server, or pick Shale for more memory headroom, as weighed in [what is the best VPS for Nextcloud with 1 TB or more of storage?](https://coffervale.com/nextcloud-vps/ "Nextcloud sizing on a storage VPS"). - **An always-on Syncthing node** that keeps folders in step between devices. What it is not built for: databases with heavy random writes, or anything that needs SSD response times. Every plan stores your data on hard disks (HDD) chosen for capacity, not speed: they suit backups, archives and file sync, not databases or heavy random reads and writes. We publish no speed or IOPS figure we cannot back. ## 500 GB, 1 TB or 2 TB: which one? **Pick the size that will still have room in a year, then the term.** Silt (500 GB) costs $1.24 a month on 12 months, Clay (1 TB) $1.66, and Shale (2 TB) $3.34. Per terabyte, Clay and Shale are the best value of the five plans, at $1.66 and $1.67; Silt costs more per terabyte because its processor and memory weigh more against a smaller disk. Every price and term is on [the pricing page](https://coffervale.com/pricing/ "Coffervale storage VPS plans and terms"). ## Order a 1 TB VPS, or a size either side | Plan | Quantity | 30 days | 3 months | 6 months | 1 year | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Silt | 500 GB HDD · 1 vCPU · 2 GB RAM | $1.77 | $4.77 (−10%) | $8.49 (−20%) | $14.86 (−30%) | | Clay | 1 TB HDD · 2 vCPU · 3 GB RAM | $2.37 | $6.39 (−10%) | $11.37 (−20%) | $19.90 (−30%) | | Shale | 2 TB HDD · 2 vCPU · 4 GB RAM | $4.77 | $12.87 (−10%) | $22.89 (−20%) | $40.06 (−30%) | In every plan: HDD storage from 500 GB · Root over SSH (key optional) · KVM with your own kernel · IPv4 + IPv6 · No setup fee · No KYC **Before you pay** - Top-ups start at $1. One crypto top-up can pay for any plan and any rental length. - Credit on your balance does not expire and renews any of your VPS. When a top-up is only made to reach the minimum, the unspent part comes back on request within 30 days of payment, in USDT or USDC. The rest of a balance is not paid out unless the law requires it. - Credited after we check the payment on the blockchain. Usual network confirmation time: BTC ≈ 20 min · USDT TRC-20 ≈ 1 min · USDT ERC-20 ≈ 5 min · USDC ERC-20 ≈ 5 min · ETH ≈ 5 min · SOL ≈ 1 min · LTC ≈ 15 min · XMR ≈ 20 min ## Questions about 1 TB VPS ### Is a 1 TB VPS the same as 1 TB of RAM? Not here. At Coffervale, 1 TB always means disk space: Clay has 1 TB of HDD storage with 3 GB RAM. A server with a terabyte of memory is a large dedicated machine, which we do not sell. ### Will I see the full 1 TB? You get 1,000 GB of disk, which Linux tools show as about 931 GiB because they count in powers of two. The filesystem then takes a small share for its own structures, as on any disk. ### Is a 1 TB VPS enough for Nextcloud? For one to a few people, yes: Clay has 2 vCPU and 3 GB RAM. A family that shares phone photo uploads usually fills 1 TB within a few years; Shale doubles the space for $3.34 a month on 12 months. ### Can I pay for a 1 TB VPS with Bitcoin? Yes. You top up a balance with BTC, USDT, USDC, ETH, SOL, LTC, XMR, from $1, and order Clay from it. No KYC: no ID document, no selfie, no card and no phone number is asked at signup. ### Is my 1 TB of data backed up? No. We take no backup of your server and keep no copy of your data anywhere else, so what sits on a Coffervale storage VPS should be one of your copies, never the only one. One storage VPS is one copy in one place. The 3-2-1 rule asks for three copies, on two kinds of media, with one of them off-site: a storage VPS fits as that off-site copy, next to two you keep yourself. ## Sources 1. [Storage VPS plans STORAGE-1 to STORAGE-10](https://deluxhost.net/en/storage) — DeluxHost (read 2026-11-02) 2. [Hybrid storage VPS](https://hostbrr.com/hybrid-storage-vps.html) — Hostbrr (read 2026-11-02) 3. [Storage VPS plans](https://hosthatch.com/products#storage) — HostHatch (read 2026-11-02) 4. [Storage Box plans (BX11 to BX41)](https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/) — Hetzner Online (read 2026-11-02) 5. [Plans and pricing](https://www.borgbase.com/) — BorgBase (read 2026-11-02) 6. [Cloud storage pricing](https://www.rsync.net/pricing.html) — rsync.net (read 2026-11-02) 7. [Storage VPS plans (SVPS 10 to 50)](https://contabo.com/en/storage-vps/) — Contabo (read 2026-11-02) 8. [tune2fs(8): reserved blocks percentage (-m)](https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/tune2fs.8.html) — Linux man-pages project (checked 2026-11-02) --- Coffervale: Coffervale sells storage VPS in Europe: KVM servers with 500 GB to 8 TB of HDD storage for off-site backups, Nextcloud, Seafile, Syncthing and archives, paid in crypto with no ID at signup. The servers run in Amsterdam, Bucharest and Chișinău, and the operator is DomaineGoat LLC, a company registered in Panama. On the 12-month term, every plan is priced at least 25% a month under a named comparable storage VPS, picked from 10 no-KYC crypto hosts whose prices were read on 2 November 2026. --- # Who runs Coffervale storage VPS? > Who runs Coffervale storage VPS: DomaineGoat LLC, registered in Panama. 500 GB to 8 TB of HDD in three European cities, crypto, no KYC, dated prices. - URL: https://coffervale.com/about/ - Last updated: 2026-11-02 - Publisher: Coffervale (https://coffervale.com) A small brand with one product: storage VPS in Europe, sold for crypto, without paperwork, at prices we can show our working for. **Quick answer — Who runs Coffervale?** **Coffervale** is run by DomaineGoat LLC, a limited liability company registered in Panama. It rents storage VPS with 500 GB to 8 TB of HDD in Amsterdam, Bucharest and Chișinău, paid in crypto with no ID at signup, from $1.24 a month on the 12-month term at the prices of 2 November 2026. A person on the team builds each server by hand. ## Coffervale at a glance | Attribute | Value | | --- | --- | | Operator | DomaineGoat LLC, incorporated in Panama as a limited liability company | | Product | A storage VPS: a KVM virtual server sized for disk space rather than processing power, with 500 GB to 8 TB of HDD storage, its own kernel and root access over SSH | | Plans | Silt 500 GB $1.24/month on 12 months ($1.77 month to month), Clay 1 TB $1.66/month on 12 months ($2.37 month to month), Shale 2 TB $3.34/month on 12 months ($4.77 month to month), Granite 4 TB $7.53/month on 12 months ($10.75 month to month), Bedrock 8 TB $16.75/month on 12 months ($23.93 month to month) | | Cities | Amsterdam (Netherlands), Bucharest (Romania) and Chișinău (Moldova): every plan in every city, at the same price | | Payment | BTC, USDT, USDC, ETH, SOL, LTC, XMR only; top-ups from $1 | | Identity | No KYC: no ID document, no selfie, no card and no phone number is asked at signup | | Delivery | A person on the team builds your storage VPS within minutes of the confirmed payment, one hour at the outside, and the dashboard tracks it until the IP address shows up | | Support | support@coffervale.com. A person answers support emails within 12 hours, seven days a week, including help with SSH keys, reinstalls and firewall rules | ## Which company operates Coffervale? **DomaineGoat LLC, a limited liability company registered in Panama, sells and runs Coffervale.** It is the party to your contract, as the [terms of service](https://coffervale.com/terms/ "Coffervale terms of service") state. The brand describes itself in one sentence, used in the same words wherever it appears: > Coffervale sells storage VPS in Europe: KVM servers with 500 GB to 8 TB of HDD storage for off-site backups, Nextcloud, Seafile, Syncthing and archives, paid in crypto with no ID at signup. The servers run in Amsterdam, Bucharest and Chișinău, and the operator is DomaineGoat LLC, a company registered in Panama. On the 12-month term, every plan is priced at least 25% a month under a named comparable storage VPS, picked from 10 no-KYC crypto hosts whose prices were read on 2 November 2026. The legal name and the country of registration are the company facts we publish. You will find no team photos, no ratings, no testimonials and no customer counts here. What you will find instead is a date on every price and a source on every competitor figure. ## Why a storage VPS, and why this name? **Because the data people keep tends to outgrow the servers they rent, and paying SSD prices for archives makes no sense.** A storage VPS turns that around: large hard disks, a modest processor, a price counted per terabyte. On 2 November 2026, the median storage VPS of the no-KYC crypto hosts we surveyed cost $4.00 per TB a month, against $223.44 for their general-purpose VPS. The name says what the service is for. A *coffer* is a strongbox; a *vale* is a valley. Data you care about, kept low and out of the wind. The plans carry the names of rock strata, from the thin Silt layer at the top to the Bedrock at the bottom, because each one is twice as deep as the one above. ## How are Coffervale's prices set? **From a survey we publish, at a fixed distance under named offers.** On the 12-month term, each plan is priced at least 25% a month under a named reference plan (prices read on 2 November 2026): Silt against DeluxHost's “STORAGE-1” at $1.66 a month; Clay against DeluxHost's “STORAGE-2” at $2.22 a month; Shale against DeluxHost's “STORAGE-3” at $4.46 a month; Granite against DeluxHost's “STORAGE-5” at $10.04 a month; Bedrock against Hostbrr's “Hybrid 8TB” at $22.34 a month. To count as comparable, a plan has to be a storage VPS with at least as much disk, run in Europe, shown in stock and billed one month at a time, at a host that accepts crypto and requires no ID document at signup. At least one such plan was on sale at 10 hosts (VSYS Host, HostSailor, Privex, HostHatch, Hostbrr, NolimitHost, LiteServer, Cherry Servers, DeluxHost, PrivateAlps), and for each capacity the reference is the comparable plan with the smallest monthly price among them. Also not compared: BuyVM (every storage plan shown out of stock); MivoCloud (storage plans orderable only outside Europe); Senko Digital (every storage plan shown out of stock); VPSLab (no location stated for its storage plans); AlphaVPS (every storage plan shown out of stock); InterServer (storage plans orderable only outside Europe); RamNode (no location stated for its storage plans); VPSDime (every storage plan shown out of stock). Euro prices are converted at 1 EUR = 1.1172 USD (ECB, 30 October 2026); Hostbrr prices exclude VAT. We do not claim to be the cheapest at every size, and that distance is measured on the 12-month term only. That rule is why every plan card names the offer it is priced against, with its date. When the market moves, we read it again and the prices follow; the date at the top of the [pricing page](https://coffervale.com/pricing/ "Coffervale storage VPS plans and terms") tells you how fresh they are. ## What does Coffervale not do? A short service is easier to trust when its edges are clear: - **No backups on our side:** We take no backup of your server and keep no copy of your data anywhere else, so what sits on a Coffervale storage VPS should be one of your copies, never the only one. - **No SSD:** Every plan stores your data on hard disks (HDD) chosen for capacity, not speed: they suit backups, archives and file sync, not databases or heavy random reads and writes. We publish no speed or IOPS figure we cannot back. - **No Windows:** Linux only: Debian, Ubuntu, AlmaLinux or Rocky Linux. Windows is not offered. - **No card, no bank transfer:** crypto only, in BTC, USDT, USDC, ETH, SOL, LTC, XMR. - **No automatic setup:** A person on the team builds your storage VPS within minutes of the confirmed payment, one hour at the outside, and the dashboard tracks it until the IP address shows up. - **Nothing above 8 TB:** Bedrock, at 8 TB, is the largest storage VPS we sell. Past that size a dedicated storage server, a whole machine full of disks, is the better fit, and we say so plainly rather than stretch a VPS. How your data and your account are handled day to day is described in [how we work](https://coffervale.com/how-we-work/ "What Coffervale knows about you and your data"). ## How can I reach Coffervale? By email only. Support: support@coffervale.com. A person answers support emails within 12 hours, seven days a week, including help with SSH keys, reinstalls and firewall rules. Abuse reports about one of our IP addresses: abuse@coffervale.com. We have no phone line, no chat channel and no social media account of our own. Nobody from our team will ever ask for your account number, your root password or your private SSH key, by email or in a chat. The [contact page](https://coffervale.com/contact/ "Contact Coffervale support") lists what to put in a message. ## What else do people ask about Coffervale? ### Where is Coffervale based? The company, DomaineGoat LLC, is registered in Panama. The servers run in datacenters in Amsterdam (Netherlands), Bucharest (Romania) and Chișinău (Moldova); each datacenter follows the law of its own country. ### Does Coffervale publish reviews or customer numbers? No. We publish no reviews, ratings, testimonials or customer counts. Judge us on the dated prices and the written rules instead. ### Who builds the servers? A person on the team, after your payment is confirmed. A person on the team builds your storage VPS within minutes of the confirmed payment, one hour at the outside, and the dashboard tracks it until the IP address shows up. ### Is Coffervale a reseller? We rent the servers we sell inside third-party datacenters and run the service, the billing and the support ourselves. We do not name our datacenter partners. ### How do I know the prices are real? Each plan card names the offer it is priced against and the date we read it, and the rule is published in full. You can check any of them yourself. ## Sources 1. [Storage VPS plans](https://deluxhost.net/en/storage) — DeluxHost (read 2026-11-02) 2. [Hybrid storage VPS](https://hostbrr.com/hybrid-storage-vps.html) — Hostbrr (read 2026-11-02) --- Coffervale: Coffervale sells storage VPS in Europe: KVM servers with 500 GB to 8 TB of HDD storage for off-site backups, Nextcloud, Seafile, Syncthing and archives, paid in crypto with no ID at signup. The servers run in Amsterdam, Bucharest and Chișinău, and the operator is DomaineGoat LLC, a company registered in Panama. On the 12-month term, every plan is priced at least 25% a month under a named comparable storage VPS, picked from 10 no-KYC crypto hosts whose prices were read on 2 November 2026. --- # Acceptable Use Policy for Coffervale storage VPS > What a Coffervale storage VPS may hold and run: backups, sync and archives allowed; public distribution without rights, public seedboxes and mining banned. - URL: https://coffervale.com/acceptable-use/ - Last updated: 2026-11-02 - Publisher: Coffervale (https://coffervale.com) What you may store and run on a Coffervale storage VPS, what is forbidden, how complaints are handled and how to contest a suspension. **Quick answer — What can I store and run on a Coffervale storage VPS?** **Coffervale** storage VPS are for your own backups, file sync, self-hosted clouds such as Nextcloud or Seafile, archives and the services around them. Forbidden: spam, phishing, malware, attacks, abuse material, any mining or proof-of-space farming, public seedboxes and publicly distributing content you hold no rights to. Foreign copyright notices get no action; Panamanian law applies. A breach means suspension. ## 1. Scope This policy applies to every Coffervale account and server, and to everyone who uses them. It forms part of the [terms of service](https://coffervale.com/terms/ "Coffervale terms of service") and covers every plan on the [pricing page](https://coffervale.com/pricing/ "Coffervale storage VPS plans and terms"). You answer for what is stored and run on your server, including by anyone you give access to. ## 2. Applicable law Coffervale is a brand of DomaineGoat LLC, a company registered in the Republic of Panama, and it answers only to Panamanian law; each datacenter that hosts a server is bound by the law of the country it stands in. A legal demand founded on the law of another country leads to no action by Coffervale. ## 3. What a storage VPS is for Anything section 5 does not forbid is allowed. The uses we built the service for: - off-site backups with Borg, restic, Kopia, rsync or similar tools, of your own machines or those you administer; - self-hosted file services for yourself, your family or your team: Nextcloud, Seafile, Syncthing, SFTP; - archives of photos, documents, projects and exports that you own or are entitled to keep; - a private media library of content you own, streamed to yourself; - development, testing and personal servers; - Tor relays may run on a Coffervale server, exit relays included. ## 4. Copyright notices from abroad We take no action on DMCA notices or any other foreign copyright notice: Panamanian law and the orders of Panamanian courts are the only ones Coffervale follows. That is not a licence, since our own rules still forbid publicly distributing content you hold no rights to. A notice sent under the DMCA or another foreign copyright law leads to no takedown and no suspension. That procedure point changes nothing in section 5: storage is not a distribution platform, and publicly distributing content you hold no rights to is forbidden on every server, whoever notices it. ## 5. Forbidden uses Forbidden on every server: spam or bulk mail, phishing, malware or botnet command, DDoS and other attacks, scanning or brute-forcing systems you do not own, booter or stresser services, carding and fraud, child sexual abuse material, cryptocurrency mining of any kind including proof-of-space or proof-of-capacity farming such as Chia, public seedboxes, publicly distributing films, series, music, games, books or software you hold no rights to, and any service to sanctioned people or companies. What these rules mean in practice: - **Distribution:** a server must not serve films, series, music, games, books or software to the public without the rights to do so, through a website, a file host, a tracker or any other means. Keeping your own copies for yourself is storage; handing them out to all comers is distribution. - **Seedboxes:** a public seedbox, or any service that swaps files with strangers at scale, is forbidden. The traffic allowance and the shared disk arrays are sized for backups and sync. - **Mining:** no mining of any coin with any software, and no proof-of-space or proof-of-capacity farming (Chia and similar), which fills shared disks for profit. A full node that only validates a blockchain is not mining and is allowed. - **Scanning:** testing your own systems is allowed; scanning other people's is not. - **Mail:** outgoing port 25 stays closed (section 6), and bulk mail is forbidden on every port and through every provider. - **Sanctions:** Residents and companies of Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, Russia, Belarus, China, Yemen and Western Sahara, and of the occupied regions of Ukraine, cannot order. Each incoming payment is screened against public sanctions lists of blockchain addresses, and money from a listed address is never credited; a Monero payment keeps its sending address out of view, so that screening has no address to check. ## 6. Port 25 and email Outgoing port 25 is shut on every server to keep spam out, permanently; mail providers stay reachable on ports 465 and 587. A mail server on Coffervale relays its messages through a mail provider on one of those ports. ## 7. Traffic quotas and shared disks Each server has one IPv4 address and an IPv6 /64 on a 1 Gbit/s port, with a monthly traffic quota of 2 TB plus 2 TB per TB stored: 3 TB for Silt, 4 TB for Clay, 6 TB for Shale, 10 TB for Granite, 18 TB for Bedrock. Past the quota the port runs at 100 Mbit/s until the next period begins; nothing extra is billed. Disks are shared arrays: a workload that keeps them saturated around the clock, such as a public file mirror, slows other customers down. Support writes to you before acting, and suggests a better fit when there is one. ## 8. How complaints are handled Copyright notices from abroad, DMCA included, lead to no action; Panamanian law and Panamanian court orders decide. Spam, phishing, malware, botnet command, attacks and child sexual abuse material are banned and end in suspension. Reports about a Coffervale IP address go to abuse@coffervale.com. A report is easier to act on with: - the IP address of the server; - when it happened, date and time, ideally in UTC; - the type of abuse: spam, phishing, malware, botnet command, an attack, a scan or illegal content; - proof: log excerpts, full mail headers or the URL concerned. Foreign copyright notices sent to that address, under the DMCA or any other law, get no action. ## 9. Suspension A breach of section 5 leads to suspension. A suspended server shows as such in the dashboard; write to support to learn why. A server suspended for a breach earns no credit for its remaining days, because the [refund policy](https://coffervale.com/refunds/ "When Coffervale credits days back") covers only the cases it lists. A server stopped because its term was not renewed is a different case, covered by the terms of service: its disk is held for 7 days, then wiped. ## 10. Contesting a suspension Write to support@coffervale.com. A person answers support emails within 12 hours, seven days a week, including help with SSH keys, reinstalls and firewall rules. - Give the order reference (ORD-…) and the server's IP address. - Never send your account number. Nobody from our team will ever ask for your account number, your root password or your private SSH key, by email or in a chat. - Explain what happened and what you changed, for example the compromised service you removed or the open share you closed. ## 11. Legal orders Only a Panamanian court order can release records, and the [privacy policy](https://coffervale.com/privacy/ "What Coffervale keeps and why") lists the only records that exist. We keep no logs: no record of connections or traffic and no IP address of a visitor or customer, whether on this website, in the dashboard or on the host machines. ## 12. Changes We may update this policy; the date at the top shows the version in force, and it applies from that date to every server. --- Coffervale: Coffervale sells storage VPS in Europe: KVM servers with 500 GB to 8 TB of HDD storage for off-site backups, Nextcloud, Seafile, Syncthing and archives, paid in crypto with no ID at signup. The servers run in Amsterdam, Bucharest and Chișinău, and the operator is DomaineGoat LLC, a company registered in Panama. On the 12-month term, every plan is priced at least 25% a month under a named comparable storage VPS, picked from 10 no-KYC crypto hosts whose prices were read on 2 November 2026. --- # How do I use a storage VPS for off-site backups? > How to use a VPS for off-site backups: a backup VPS over SSH with Borg or restic, 3-2-1, append-only, 1 TB from $1.66/month, crypto, no ID. - URL: https://coffervale.com/backup-vps/ - Last updated: 2026-11-02 - Publisher: Coffervale (https://coffervale.com) Point your servers and laptops at a storage VPS over SSH, encrypt before anything leaves them, make the copy append-only, then prove it restores. Here is the whole setup, and what one VPS can never do for you. **Quick answer — How do I use a VPS for off-site backups?** To use a VPS for off-site backups, rent a storage VPS in another city, give each machine its own SSH key and repository, and run Borg or restic so data is encrypted before it leaves you. At **Coffervale**, 1 TB costs $1.66 a month on 12 months (2 November 2026). Keep it as one of three copies. ## A backup VPS in five lines | Attribute | Value | | --- | --- | | Where it sits | In another city, under another account than the data it protects | | How data gets there | SSH: Borg (`borg serve`), restic (SFTP or rest-server), or rsync | | Who holds the key | You: encrypt on the client, so the VPS stores ciphertext only | | What stops a hacked client | Append-only access: new backups allowed, deletions refused | | How you know it works | Scheduled checks plus a real restore to another machine | ## What does a backup VPS give you that RAID or a snapshot does not? **A backup VPS holds a separate, versioned copy of your data in another building, reached with its own credentials.** That is the one property the usual stand-ins lack. Disk redundancy keeps a server running through a failed drive; it does not undo a deletion, ransomware or a lost account, so it is not a backup. A snapshot sits on the same disks as the server it captures, so it can roll back a mistake but it is not an off-site copy. In searches, "backup VPS" means two things: backing a VPS up elsewhere, and using a VPS as the place backups land. It is one job seen from either end: a production server pushes Borg or restic archives to a storage VPS exactly as a laptop does. ### Which copy survives what? | Event | RAID in the same server | Snapshot on the same host | Append-only backup VPS in another city | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | One drive dies | Survives | Survives if the array does | Survives | | You delete a folder by mistake | Deletion is copied at once | Roll back to the snapshot | Restore from an older archive | | Ransomware encrypts the server | Encrypted files are copied at once | Lost if the attacker also holds the panel login | Older archives stay: the client key cannot delete them | | Fire or flood at the datacenter | Lost | Lost | Survives | | The hosting account is closed | Lost | Lost | Survives if it runs under another account | ## Why is one storage VPS not a 3-2-1 backup? **Because 3-2-1 counts copies, media and places, and one VPS is one copy in one place.** The rule, as US-CERT's paper *Data Backup Options* sets it out, is three copies of every important file, on two different media types, with one copy stored off-site. One storage VPS is one copy in one place. The 3-2-1 rule asks for three copies, on two kinds of media, with one of them off-site: a storage VPS fits as that off-site copy, next to two you keep yourself. A layout that satisfies it for a home lab or a small team: - **Copy 1:** the live data on your laptop, server or NAS. - **Copy 2:** a local backup on a USB disk or a second NAS, quick to restore from. - **Copy 3:** the storage VPS: encrypted, append-only, in a city where you neither live nor work. A backup kept in one place is a single point of failure with a reassuring name. ## How do I send backups from a server to a storage VPS over SSH? **Give every machine its own SSH key, its own account or path on the VPS, and its own repository, then let the backup tool do the rest over SSH.** Borg needs Borg installed on the VPS and runs `borg serve` there; restic can write over plain SFTP with nothing extra on the server, or talk HTTP to rest-server. Separate keys mean one stolen laptop exposes one repository, not all of them. *One key, one account, one repository per machine (restic over SFTP)* ```bash # On the machine you back up: a key used for backups only ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -N '' -C 'backup web1' -f ~/.ssh/backup_ed25519 cat ~/.ssh/backup_ed25519.pub # On the storage VPS, as root: one account per machine, holding that key mkdir -p /srv/backup useradd --create-home --home-dir /srv/backup/web1 --shell /bin/sh backup-web1 install -d -m 700 -o backup-web1 -g backup-web1 /srv/backup/web1/.ssh echo 'ssh-ed25519 AAAA...paste-the-key... backup web1' >> /srv/backup/web1/.ssh/authorized_keys chown backup-web1:backup-web1 /srv/backup/web1/.ssh/authorized_keys # Back on the client: a short SSH alias, then restic over SFTP cat >> ~/.ssh/config <<'EOF' Host coffer HostName 203.0.113.10 User backup-web1 IdentityFile ~/.ssh/backup_ed25519 IdentitiesOnly yes EOF restic -r sftp:coffer:/srv/backup/web1/repo init restic -r sftp:coffer:/srv/backup/web1/repo backup /etc /home /var/www ``` ### Which tool should push the backups? | Tool | Transport to the VPS | Encrypts before upload | Stores only changed chunks | Append-only option | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Borg 1.4 | SSH, `borg serve` on the VPS | Yes (`repokey`, `keyfile`) | Yes | Yes, per SSH key: `borg serve --append-only` | | restic 0.19 | SFTP, or HTTP(S) to rest-server | Yes, always on | Yes | Only with rest-server `--append-only` | | rsync | SSH | No: files land as they are | No; `--link-dest` hard-links unchanged files | No | Versions: Borg 1.4.5 and restic 0.19.1 were the latest stable releases on 2 November 2026. Borg 2 is still in beta and cannot read Borg 1.x repositories. ## Why encrypt on the client instead of on the VPS? **Because then the VPS only ever stores ciphertext, and nobody who reaches its disk can read your files.** Whoever runs a hypervisor can technically read an unencrypted virtual disk, at any VPS host. We do not open your files, and data you encrypt before it leaves your machine takes the question off the table. KVM gives your server its own kernel, so you can put LUKS on the data disk or run ZFS with native encryption, and the keys never leave you. For backups, encrypt on your own machine before upload (Borg, restic and Kopia all do it), so the server only ever holds ciphertext. Borg asks for an encryption mode at `borg init`; its documentation recommends `repokey` with a strong passphrase and says to keep a copy of the key outside both the repository and the machine being backed up. restic encrypts all the data it stores with AES-256 and authenticates it with Poly1305-AES, with no unencrypted mode. Keep the passphrase and the exported key in a password manager and on paper. Encryption done on the server protects the server; encryption done on your machine protects you. ## What does append-only mode protect against? **Append-only stops a compromised client from erasing the backups it made.** An attacker who owns a server also owns its backup credentials, and in normal mode those can run `borg delete` or `restic forget --prune` before the ransom note appears. - **Borg:** add `--append-only` to the `borg serve` command forced in `authorized_keys`. Borg's documentation notes that prune and delete still run in this mode but only tag data as deleted: no space is freed and no compaction happens. - **restic:** start rest-server with `--append-only`, which accepts new backups and refuses to delete or modify existing ones. Plain SFTP has no such mode. The price is housekeeping: pruning needs a second, unrestricted key, used from a machine the attacker cannot reach. On append-only restic repositories, restic's documentation tells you to write `forget` policies with `--keep-within`. The full Borg recipe is in [How do I set up a Borg backup server on a VPS?](https://coffervale.com/borg-backup-server-on-a-vps/ "Borg server setup on a storage VPS, step by step"), and the restic choice in [Restic: REST server or SFTP for backups to a VPS?](https://coffervale.com/restic-rest-server-vs-sftp/ "restic rest-server against SFTP on a storage VPS"). ## How do I know my off-site backup will restore? **Restore from it, on a schedule, onto a machine that is not the original.** A job that exits with status 0 proves the upload worked, not that your files come back. Spread the checks out so the slow ones run rarely: ### A restore-testing routine | How often | What to run | What it proves | | --- | --- | --- | | After every run | Read the exit status and log of `borg create` or `restic backup` | The job ran to the end | | Weekly | `borg check` or `restic check` | Repository structure and indexes are sound | | Monthly | `restic check --read-data-subset=10%`, or `borg check --verify-data` (reads every chunk, slow on HDD) | Stored data decrypts and matches its checksums | | Every quarter | Extract a real folder onto a spare machine and open the files | You can get the data back with the key and passphrase you kept | ## How long does a full restore take, and does it fit the traffic quota? **At full line rate a 1 Gbit/s port moves 1 TB in about 2 hours 15 minutes; in practice your own connection and the hard disks set a slower pace.** That figure is arithmetic (8,000 gigabits at one gigabit per second), not a measured speed, so time the restore of a real folder before you count on it. Every plan's monthly traffic quota is more than twice its disk, 4 TB a month on the 1 TB Clay plan for instance, so uploading a full disk and restoring all of it in the same month stays inside the quota. Each server has one IPv4 address and an IPv6 /64 on a 1 Gbit/s port, with a monthly traffic quota of 2 TB plus 2 TB per TB stored: 3 TB for Silt, 4 TB for Clay, 6 TB for Shale, 10 TB for Granite, 18 TB for Bedrock. Past the quota the port runs at 100 Mbit/s until the next period begins; nothing extra is billed. ## What does an off-site backup target cost per TB? **According to Coffervale's survey of 2 November 2026, storage VPS plans from hosts that take crypto and ask for no ID document cost a median $4.00 per TB a month, while general-purpose VPS plans from the same hosts cost $223.44 per TB, about 56 times more.** Backups belong on disks sized for capacity. Hosted backup storage gives you no server of your own, as the table shows; the trade-off is weighed in [Is a storage VPS a cheaper alternative to rsync.net or BorgBase?](https://coffervale.com/rsync-net-alternative/ "Storage VPS against rsync.net and BorgBase"). Every plan and term is on [How much does a storage VPS cost per month?](https://coffervale.com/pricing/ "Coffervale storage VPS prices and terms"), and the 1 TB plan in detail on [Where can I get a VPS with 1 TB of storage?](https://coffervale.com/1tb-vps/ "1 TB storage VPS: specs and price"). | Option | What it is | Price per TB a month | Root and your own software | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Coffervale Clay (1 TB) | Storage VPS, HDD | $1.66 on 12 months | Yes | | Hetzner Storage Box BX11 | Network storage over SFTP and Samba | $3.58 | No | | Backblaze B2 | Object storage | $6.95 | No | | BorgBase Medium | Hosted Borg and restic repositories | $9.17 | No | | rsync.net | Backup storage over SSH | $15.00 | No | *Prices checked on November 2, 2026.* Prices as published on each provider's page on 2 November 2026; euro prices converted at 1 EUR = 1.1172 USD (ECB, 30 October 2026). Hetzner prices exclude VAT. ## Questions about backup VPS ### Can I back up a VPS to another VPS? Yes. Install Borg or restic on the production server, point it at a storage VPS in another city over SSH, and run it from cron or a systemd timer. Use a different account, ideally at a different provider, so one account problem cannot take both copies. ### Should I use Borg or restic for a backup VPS? Both encrypt on the client and store only changed chunks. Borg needs Borg on the VPS and gives append-only access per SSH key; restic writes over plain SFTP, or to rest-server when you want append-only. Pick the one whose restore commands you are comfortable typing under stress. ### Does Coffervale back up my backup VPS? No. We take no backup of your server and keep no copy of your data anywhere else, so what sits on a Coffervale storage VPS should be one of your copies, never the only one. That is exactly why the VPS should hold your third copy, not your only one. ### How much space do backups need? Start from the size of the data you protect, then add room for history. Deduplicating tools store unchanged chunks once, so daily archives of mostly static files grow slowly; after a month, `borg info` or `restic stats` shows the real figure. To grow, order a larger plan and copy your data across with rsync or zfs send; resizing a running server in place is not offered at launch. ### Can I pay for a backup VPS without showing ID? Yes. No KYC: no ID document, no selfie, no card and no phone number is asked at signup. You top up a balance with BTC, USDT, USDC, ETH, SOL, LTC, XMR, from $1, and order from it. ## Sources 1. [Data Backup Options (P. Ruggiero, M. A. Heckathorn, 2012): the 3-2-1 rule](https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/data_backup_options.pdf) — US-CERT / CISA (read 2026-11-02) 2. [Borg 1.4.5 documentation: Additional notes, append-only mode](https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage/notes.html) — BorgBackup project (read 2026-11-02) 3. [Borg 1.4.5 documentation: borg init, encryption modes and key backup](https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage/init.html) — BorgBackup project (read 2026-11-02) 4. [Borg 2.0 (preliminary information)](https://www.borgbackup.org/releases/borg-2.0.html) — BorgBackup project (read 2026-11-02) 5. [restic documentation: Preparing a new repository (SFTP, REST server)](https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/stable/030_preparing_a_new_repo.html) — restic project (read 2026-11-02) 6. [restic documentation: Removing backup snapshots (append-only and --keep-within)](https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/stable/060_forget.html) — restic project (read 2026-11-02) 7. [restic documentation: Checking integrity and consistency](https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/stable/045_working_with_repos.html) — restic project (read 2026-11-02) 8. [restic documentation: References, repository encryption](https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/stable/100_references.html) — restic project (read 2026-11-02) 9. [Rest Server README: append-only mode](https://github.com/restic/rest-server) — restic project (read 2026-11-02) 10. [rsync(1) manual page: --link-dest, transport encryption](https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/rsync.1) — rsync project (Samba) (read 2026-11-02) 11. [Storage Box plans (BX11 to BX41)](https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/) — Hetzner Online (read 2026-11-02) 12. [B2 Cloud Storage pricing](https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage/pricing) — Backblaze (read 2026-11-02) 13. [Plans and pricing](https://www.borgbase.com/) — BorgBase (read 2026-11-02) 14. [Cloud storage pricing](https://www.rsync.net/pricing.html) — rsync.net (read 2026-11-02) --- Coffervale: Coffervale sells storage VPS in Europe: KVM servers with 500 GB to 8 TB of HDD storage for off-site backups, Nextcloud, Seafile, Syncthing and archives, paid in crypto with no ID at signup. The servers run in Amsterdam, Bucharest and Chișinău, and the operator is DomaineGoat LLC, a company registered in Panama. On the 12-month term, every plan is priced at least 25% a month under a named comparable storage VPS, picked from 10 no-KYC crypto hosts whose prices were read on 2 November 2026. --- # How do I set up a Borg backup server on a storage VPS? > How to set up a Borg backup server on a VPS: borg user, borg serve --append-only in authorized_keys, repokey, prune and compact; 1 TB $1.66, crypto, no ID. - URL: https://coffervale.com/borg-backup-server-on-a-vps/ - Last updated: 2026-11-02 - Publisher: Coffervale (https://coffervale.com) A Borg server is nothing more than an SSH account that may run one command. Lock that command down per key, keep clients append-only, and do the pruning from somewhere an attacker cannot reach. **Quick answer — How do I set up a Borg backup server on a VPS?** To set up a Borg backup server on a VPS, install Borg 1.x on both ends, create a `borg` user, and force `borg serve --restrict-to-path --append-only` on each client key. Initialise each repository with `repokey`; prune and compact from a separate admin key. A **Coffervale** 1 TB VPS costs $1.66 a month on 12 months (2 November 2026). ## What are the steps, in order? 1. **Install the same Borg 1.x on server and clients** — apt install borgbackup on Debian or Ubuntu, then compare borg --version on both ends. 2. **Create a borg user and a repository folder** — One unprivileged account on the VPS owns every repository; clients never get a shell. 3. **Force borg serve in authorized_keys** — One line per client key, each limited to its own path with --restrict-to-path and --append-only. 4. **Initialise the repository with repokey** — Run borg init --encryption=repokey from the client, then export the key and store it away from both machines. 5. **Schedule borg create on the client** — Daily from cron or a systemd timer, with the passphrase read by BORG_PASSCOMMAND. 6. **Prune and compact from an admin key** — A second key without --append-only, used from a trusted machine after checking the archive list. 7. **Check the repository and test a restore** — borg check weekly, --verify-data monthly, and a real borg extract every few months. ## Which Borg version should the server run? **Run Borg 1.x on both ends: 1.4.5 was the latest stable release on 2 November 2026, and Borg 2 is still in beta.** The Borg 2.0 page calls it a breaking release that is not directly compatible with Borg 1.x repositories, and renames `borg init` to `borg repo-create`. On Debian 13 the package to install is `borgbackup` (1.4.0 in trixie); the separate `borgbackup2` package is a 2.0 beta. Install the same release on the server and on every client. *On the storage VPS, as root: Borg, a borg user, a folder per client* ```bash apt install borgbackup borg --version useradd --create-home --home-dir /srv/borg --shell /bin/sh borg install -d -m 700 -o borg -g borg /srv/borg/.ssh /srv/borg/repos install -d -m 700 -o borg -g borg /srv/borg/repos/laptop /srv/borg/repos/web1 ``` ## How do I lock each client to its own repository? **Put a forced `borg serve` command in front of every key in `/srv/borg/.ssh/authorized_keys`, so the key can run Borg and nothing else.** The `restrict` keyword blocks port forwarding, agent forwarding and terminals, and Borg's documentation notes that it also covers SSH features added in future releases. The examples assume a POSIX shell as the account's login shell, which is why the user above gets `/bin/sh`. - `--restrict-to-path PATH` allows that path and every folder under it, so one client can hold several repositories. - `--restrict-to-repository PATH` is stricter: exactly one repository, no sub-folders. - `--append-only` lets the key add archives but not remove data from the repository. - `--storage-quota 500G` caps what one key can store, so a runaway client cannot fill the disk. Each line stays on one line in the file; the admin key at the end has no `--append-only` and is used only for pruning. */srv/borg/.ssh/authorized_keys (owner borg, mode 600)* ```text command="borg serve --restrict-to-path /srv/borg/repos/laptop --append-only",restrict ssh-ed25519 AAAA...laptop-key... laptop command="borg serve --restrict-to-path /srv/borg/repos/web1 --append-only --storage-quota 500G",restrict ssh-ed25519 AAAA...web1-key... web1 command="borg serve --restrict-to-path /srv/borg/repos",restrict ssh-ed25519 AAAA...admin-key... admin ``` *Fix ownership after editing, as root* ```bash chown borg:borg /srv/borg/.ssh/authorized_keys chmod 600 /srv/borg/.ssh/authorized_keys ``` ## How do I create the repository with repokey encryption? **Run `borg init --encryption=repokey` from the client, then export the key and keep it outside both the VPS and the machine you back up.** Borg's documentation recommends `repokey` with a strong passphrase as the rule of thumb; `repokey-blake2` is the same mode with a BLAKE2b hash, likely faster on processors without hardware-accelerated SHA-256. With `repokey`, the key sits in the repository's `config` file, sealed by your passphrase. Lose the passphrase and the backups are unreadable, by you and by everyone else. Borg also says you must keep an off-site copy of the key, for example on paper. *On the client (here: the laptop)* ```bash ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -N '' -C 'borg laptop' -f ~/.ssh/borg_ed25519 cat >> ~/.ssh/config <<'EOF' Host coffer-borg HostName 203.0.113.10 User borg IdentityFile ~/.ssh/borg_ed25519 IdentitiesOnly yes EOF export BORG_REPO=ssh://coffer-borg/srv/borg/repos/laptop/main borg init --encryption=repokey borg key export --paper "$BORG_REPO" ~/borg-laptop-key.txt ``` */usr/local/sbin/borg-backup on a server client, run daily as root* ```bash #!/bin/sh export BORG_REPO=ssh://coffer-borg/srv/borg/repos/web1/main # the passphrase file belongs to root, mode 600 export BORG_PASSCOMMAND='cat /root/.config/borg/passphrase' borg create --stats --compression zstd,3 \ ::'{hostname}-{now:%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M}' \ /etc /home /var/www ``` ## How do I prune and compact an append-only repository? **From a trusted admin machine, with the key that has no `--append-only`, after checking that no archive has gone missing.** In append-only mode, Borg's notes explain, `prune` and `delete` still run but only tag data as deleted in a new transaction, and compaction never happens, with no warning and no error. Repository space is not freed until `borg compact` runs from a key allowed to rewrite. The same notes carry the catch: the first write in normal mode makes every earlier deletion permanent, including one an attacker made through a client key. So list the archives first. If some are missing, stop and follow the recovery steps in Borg's append-only notes before you prune anything. A cron job that prunes automatically with an unrestricted key makes append-only pointless. Borg's documentation also recommends a `--dry-run` with `--list` before every real prune. *On the admin machine, Host coffer-admin using the admin key* ```bash export BORG_REPO=ssh://coffer-admin/srv/borg/repos/web1/main borg list borg prune -v --list --dry-run --keep-daily=7 --keep-weekly=4 --keep-monthly=6 borg prune -v --list --keep-daily=7 --keep-weekly=4 --keep-monthly=6 borg compact ``` ## How do I check the repository and prove a restore works? **Run `borg check` weekly, `borg check --verify-data` monthly, and extract real files onto another machine every few months.** A plain check verifies the repository and the archive metadata. `--verify-data` reads, decrypts and decompresses every chunk, which Borg calls very time consuming, and on hard disks it is. For a large repository, `--repository-only --max-duration 3600` splits the repository check into one-hour slices that resume where they stopped. None of these replace an actual restore: a backup is only as good as the last time you got data out of it. *Checks and a test restore, from the client* ```bash export BORG_REPO=ssh://coffer-borg/srv/borg/repos/web1/main borg check -v borg check -v --verify-data borg check -v --repository-only --max-duration 3600 mkdir -p /tmp/restore-test && cd /tmp/restore-test borg list borg extract --list ::web1-2026-11-02T03:00 etc/nginx ``` ## What does a Borg target cost compared with hosted Borg storage? **According to Coffervale's survey of 2 November 2026, hosted Borg storage cost $9.17 per TB a month at BorgBase (1 TB Medium plan, $110.00 a year) and $15.00 per TB at rsync.net, while storage VPS plans from hosts that take crypto without an ID document had a median of $4.00 per TB.** Hosted services run the server for you; a storage VPS hands you root and the setup above, a choice weighed in [Is a storage VPS a cheaper alternative to rsync.net or BorgBase?](https://coffervale.com/rsync-net-alternative/ "Storage VPS against hosted Borg storage"). We take no backup of your server and keep no copy of your data anywhere else, so what sits on a Coffervale storage VPS should be one of your copies, never the only one, so the Borg server is one copy among several, as [How do I use a VPS for off-site backups?](https://coffervale.com/backup-vps/ "Off-site backups and 3-2-1 with a storage VPS") explains. The 1 TB plan is detailed in [Where can I get a VPS with 1 TB of storage?](https://coffervale.com/1tb-vps/ "1 TB storage VPS"), and if you prefer restic, read [Restic: REST server or SFTP for backups to a VPS?](https://coffervale.com/restic-rest-server-vs-sftp/ "restic on a storage VPS"). To encrypt the VPS disk as well, see [How do I mount and format the storage disk on a Linux VPS?](https://coffervale.com/mount-storage-disk-on-a-vps/ "Mount and encrypt the data disk"). ### Borg targets per TB a month, 2 November 2026 | Borg target | Per TB a month | What you run yourself | Paid in crypto | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | BorgBase Medium, 1 TB | $9.17 ($110.00 a year) | Nothing: hosted Borg and restic repositories | Not stated | | rsync.net, 0 to 9 TB tier | $15.00 | Nothing: ZFS storage reached over SSH | Not stated | | Storage VPS, median of 99 plans | $4.00 | The Borg server set up on this page | Yes: hosts that take crypto without an ID document | | Coffervale Clay, 1 TB | $1.66 on 12 months | The Borg server set up on this page | BTC, USDT, USDC, ETH, SOL, LTC, XMR | *Prices checked on November 2, 2026.* Prices as read on each service's own page on 2 November 2026. BorgBase bills the Medium plan yearly and states prices excluding VAT; the storage VPS median covers plans of 500 GB or more, in stock and billed monthly. ## Questions about a Borg backup server ### Do client and server need the same Borg version? Keep both on Borg 1.x, ideally the same release. Borg 2 is still in beta, uses a new repository format and cannot open 1.x repositories directly. On Debian 13 install `borgbackup`, not `borgbackup2`. ### Should I use --restrict-to-path or --restrict-to-repository? `--restrict-to-path` allows a folder and everything under it, handy when one client keeps several repositories. `--restrict-to-repository` allows exactly one repository and no sub-folders, the tighter choice when each client has one. ### Why does my repository not shrink after borg prune? Prune only marks archives as deleted; `borg compact` frees the space. Through an append-only key, compaction never runs at all, so prune and compact from the admin key. ### Can one storage VPS hold Borg repositories for several machines? Yes. Give each machine its own key line in `authorized_keys`, its own path and, if the disk is shared, its own `--storage-quota`. One compromised client then reaches one repository only. ### What happens if I lose the Borg passphrase? The repository becomes unreadable for good. Borg cannot recover it and neither can the host. Keep the passphrase in a password manager and the exported key on paper, away from the VPS and the client. ## Sources 1. [Borg 1.4.5 documentation: Hosting repositories](https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/deployment/hosting-repositories.html) — BorgBackup project (read 2026-11-02) 2. [Borg 1.4.5 documentation: borg serve (restrict options, append-only, storage quota)](https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage/serve.html) — BorgBackup project (read 2026-11-02) 3. [Borg 1.4.5 documentation: borg init (encryption modes, key backup)](https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage/init.html) — BorgBackup project (read 2026-11-02) 4. [Borg 1.4.5 documentation: borg prune](https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage/prune.html) — BorgBackup project (read 2026-11-02) 5. [Borg 1.4.5 documentation: borg compact](https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage/compact.html) — BorgBackup project (read 2026-11-02) 6. [Borg 1.4.5 documentation: borg check](https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage/check.html) — BorgBackup project (read 2026-11-02) 7. [Borg 1.4.5 documentation: Additional notes, append-only mode](https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage/notes.html) — BorgBackup project (read 2026-11-02) 8. [Borg 1.4.5 documentation: Quick start (BORG_PASSCOMMAND)](https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/quickstart.html) — BorgBackup project (read 2026-11-02) 9. [Borg 2.0 (preliminary information)](https://www.borgbackup.org/releases/borg-2.0.html) — BorgBackup project (read 2026-11-02) 10. [BorgBackup releases (1.4.5 latest, 2.0.0b25 pre-release)](https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/releases) — BorgBackup project on GitHub (read 2026-11-02) 11. [Debian trixie packages: borgbackup 1.4.0, borgbackup2 2.0.0b19](https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=borgbackup&searchon=names&suite=trixie§ion=all) — Debian (read 2026-11-02) 12. [Plans and pricing](https://www.borgbase.com/) — BorgBase (read 2026-11-02) 13. [Cloud storage pricing](https://www.rsync.net/pricing.html) — rsync.net (read 2026-11-02) --- Coffervale: Coffervale sells storage VPS in Europe: KVM servers with 500 GB to 8 TB of HDD storage for off-site backups, Nextcloud, Seafile, Syncthing and archives, paid in crypto with no ID at signup. The servers run in Amsterdam, Bucharest and Chișinău, and the operator is DomaineGoat LLC, a company registered in Panama. On the 12-month term, every plan is priced at least 25% a month under a named comparable storage VPS, picked from 10 no-KYC crypto hosts whose prices were read on 2 November 2026. --- # What storage VPS can I use instead of BuyVM storage slabs? > BuyVM storage slab alternative: slabs cost $5.00 per TB, but every KVM slice was out of stock on 2 Nov 2026. In-stock storage VPS options, crypto, no KYC. - URL: https://coffervale.com/buyvm-storage-slab-alternative/ - Last updated: 2026-11-02 - Publisher: Coffervale (https://coffervale.com) BuyVM's slabs are a well-priced idea: cheap block storage attached to a small server. On 2 November 2026 the servers they attach to could not be ordered. Here is what was in stock, what each option costs, and how to move your data. **Quick answer — What can I use instead of BuyVM storage slabs?** On 2 November 2026, BuyVM storage slabs cost $5.00 per TB a month, but a slab only attaches to a KVM slice, and every slice was out of stock in all 4 locations, so a new customer could not order the pair. In-stock storage VPS alternatives that take crypto included Hostbrr, HostHatch and **Coffervale**, whose 1 TB plan costs $1.66 a month on 12 months. ## What are BuyVM storage slabs? **A slab is block storage that you attach to a BuyVM KVM slice; it is not a server on its own.** Anyone looking for something to use instead of BuyVM storage slabs is usually after the same thing: a small server with a lot of cheap disk. BuyVM's own pages, read on 2 November 2026, describe the product this way: - sold in 256 GB steps at $1.25 a month, so 1 TB costs $5.00 and 10 TB costs $50.00; - up to 10 TB per slab and up to 8 slabs per slice; - the slab needs an accompanying KVM slice "in the same facility"; - four sites: Las Vegas, New York, Miami, and a fourth that the website calls Roost, Luxembourg while its order cart titles the group "Switzerland"; - the smallest slice in the cart costs $3.00 a month: 512 MB of RAM, 1 core and a 10 GB NVMe disk. On payment, BuyVM listed BTC, BCH, ETH, LTC, DOGE and XMR through CoinPayments when read on 29 October 2026. Its signup has no ID-document step; its terms ask for accurate identification and contact details and a residential address. An older "Storage VPS" page (250 GB to 4 TB, RAID-60) is still in the menu but has no working order path. ## What was in stock at BuyVM on 2 November 2026? **Slabs were in stock only in Las Vegas, and slices were in stock nowhere.** Every slice configuration page read that day said orders for it "have been suspended". Without a slice, a slab cannot be attached, so a new customer could buy neither. ### BuyVM stock by location, 2 November 2026 | Location | KVM slices | Storage slabs | | --- | --- | --- | | Las Vegas | 0 available, orders suspended | In stock: 512 GB (2), 1 TB (7), 2 TB (1), 4 TB (3), 10 TB (1) | | New York | 0 available, orders suspended | 0 available | | Miami | 0 available, orders suspended | 0 available | | Roost, Luxembourg (cart group "Switzerland") | 0 available, orders suspended | 0 available | *Prices checked on November 2, 2026.* Counts as shown in BuyVM's order carts (my.frantech.ca) on 2 November 2026. Stock changes without notice; check the cart before you decide. ## What does a slice plus slab cost against a storage VPS? **At list price, a BuyVM slice plus slab costs $8.00 a month for 1 TB and $23.00 for 4 TB, more than several storage VPS that were in stock the same day.** The slab rate of $5.00 per TB is low; the slice on top is what changes the sum at small sizes. **According to Coffervale's survey of 2 November 2026, only 10 of the 18 storage VPS sellers that take crypto and ask no ID had a plan in Europe that a new customer could order and pay monthly.** ### Monthly price for 1, 2 and 4 TB, 2 November 2026 | Option | 1 TB | 2 TB | 4 TB | Stock | Location | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | BuyVM 512 MB slice + slab | $8.00 | $13.00 | $23.00 | Not orderable: no slice in stock | Las Vegas, New York, Miami, Roost | | DeluxHost STORAGE-2, -3, -5 | $2.22 | $4.46 | $10.04 | In stock | Eygelshoven, NL | | Hostbrr Hybrid (excl. VAT) | $3.91 | $6.70 | $11.17 | In stock | Frankfurt, DE | | NolimitHost Storage VPS 1, 2, 4 | $4.47 (billed quarterly) | $11.16 | $17.86 | In stock | Eygelshoven, NL | | HostHatch Storage | $5.00 | $9.00 | $16.00 | In stock | Amsterdam, Stockholm, US | | **Coffervale**, 12-month term | $1.66 | $3.34 | $7.53 | Orderable; set up by hand | Amsterdam, Bucharest, Chișinău | | **Coffervale**, month to month | $2.37 | $4.77 | $10.75 | Orderable; set up by hand | Amsterdam, Bucharest, Chișinău | *Prices checked on November 2, 2026.* BuyVM: sum of the listed slice ($3.00) and slab prices, not a bundle BuyVM sells. Euro prices converted at 1 EUR = 1.1172 USD (ECB, 30 October 2026). ## What does a slab do that a fixed storage VPS does not? **A slab separates the server from the disk: you can add storage in 256 GB steps without moving your data.** The slice keeps its NVMe system disk and Ryzen core for the operating system and applications, and the slab holds the bulk. A storage VPS sells disk and server as one fixed plan. At Coffervale: To grow, order a larger plan and copy your data across with rsync or zfs send; resizing a running server in place is not offered at launch. If growing in small steps matters more than the smallest monthly bill, some in-stock hosts sell add-on disks: VSYS Host listed an extra 1 TB of HDD at $6.00 a month and LiteServer an extra 256 GB at €2.50 a month on 2 November 2026. ## Which alternative to BuyVM slabs fits which need? **Start from the one requirement you will not bend on, then compare prices inside that group.** - **Monero payment:** BuyVM, VSYS Host, Privex, Hostbrr, VPSLab, PrivateAlps named Monero on their own pages; BuyVM is one of them. Coffervale takes Monero as well; it accepts BTC, USDT, USDC, ETH, SOL, LTC, XMR. - **No documented ID trigger, in stock in Europe:** HostHatch, NolimitHost, Privex and PrivateAlps. The full split between "no" and "conditional" is in [is there a storage VPS that does not ask for ID?](https://coffervale.com/storage-vps-without-kyc/ "Storage VPS without KYC") - **A US location:** HostHatch (Los Angeles, Chicago) and InterServer, which sells 1 TB slices at $3.00 in the US only. - **Least expensive per TB in Europe:** DeluxHost, Hostbrr and HostHatch, in that order, among hosts that take crypto and ask no ID. - **Several terabytes:** plans from 2 to 8 TB are compared in [which VPS gives the most storage for the money?](https://coffervale.com/vps-with-lots-of-storage/ "VPS with lots of storage, 2 to 8 TB") Every seller, with stock and billing, is in [what is the least expensive storage VPS per TB right now?](https://coffervale.com/storage-vps-price-index/ "Storage VPS price index") ## How do I move data from a BuyVM slab to a storage VPS? **Copy with rsync over SSH while the old server still runs, then copy again just before you switch.** The second pass only sends what changed. `-a` keeps permissions and times, `-H`, `-A` and `-X` add hard links, ACLs and extended attributes, and `--numeric-ids` keeps owner numbers as they are. A Borg or restic repository can be copied the same way while no backup is running. *Two-pass copy from the slab to the new server* ```bash # On the BuyVM slice: first full copy of the slab's mount point rsync -aHAX --numeric-ids --info=progress2 /mnt/slab/ root@203.0.113.20:/srv/data/ # Just before the switch: send only the changes and drop files deleted since rsync -aHAX --numeric-ids --delete --info=progress2 /mnt/slab/ root@203.0.113.20:/srv/data/ ``` ## BuyVM storage slab alternative: questions ### Are BuyVM storage slabs on HDD or SSD? BuyVM's slab page did not state the disk type on 2 November 2026; it mentions large NVMe read and write buffers. The older Storage VPS page describes RAID-60 arrays, but that product could not be ordered. ### When will BuyVM have KVM slices in stock again? No date was published. The slice configuration pages said only that orders were suspended while the item was out of stock. ### Can I attach a BuyVM slab to a slice in another location? No. BuyVM requires the slice to be in the same facility as the slab. ### Does Coffervale sell add-on disks like a slab? Not at launch. To grow, order a larger plan and copy your data across with rsync or zfs send; resizing a running server in place is not offered at launch. Plans run from 500 GB to 8 TB; Bedrock, at 8 TB, is the largest storage VPS we sell. Past that size a dedicated storage server, a whole machine full of disks, is the better fit, and we say so plainly rather than stretch a VPS. ### Which storage VPS takes Monero like BuyVM? On 2 November 2026: BuyVM, VSYS Host, Privex, Hostbrr, VPSLab, PrivateAlps. Of those 6, all but BuyVM had a storage plan in stock that day. Coffervale has also accepted Monero since 3 November 2026. ## Sources 1. [Block Storage Slabs](https://buyvm.net/block-storage-slabs/) — BuyVM (read 2026-11-02) 2. [KVM dedicated server slices](https://buyvm.net/kvm-dedicated-server-slices/) — BuyVM (read 2026-11-02) 3. [Storage VPS (older page)](https://buyvm.net/storage-vps/) — BuyVM (read 2026-11-02) 4. [Las Vegas slab cart](https://my.frantech.ca/cart.php?gid=42) — Frantech (BuyVM) (read 2026-11-02) 5. [New York slab cart](https://my.frantech.ca/cart.php?gid=45) — Frantech (BuyVM) (read 2026-11-02) 6. ["Switzerland" slab cart (linked as Luxembourg)](https://my.frantech.ca/cart.php?gid=46) — Frantech (BuyVM) (read 2026-11-02) 7. [Miami slab cart](https://my.frantech.ca/cart.php?gid=49) — Frantech (BuyVM) (read 2026-11-02) 8. [Las Vegas KVM slice cart](https://my.frantech.ca/cart.php?gid=37) — Frantech (BuyVM) (read 2026-11-02) 9. [Slice configuration page (RYZEN KVM 512MB)](https://my.frantech.ca/cart.php?a=add&pid=1439) — Frantech (BuyVM) (read 2026-11-02) 10. [Why BuyVM: payment methods](https://buyvm.net/why-buyvm/) — BuyVM (read 2026-10-29) 11. [Terms of service](https://buyvm.net/terms-of-service/) — BuyVM (read 2026-10-29) 12. [Storage VPS plans STORAGE-1 to STORAGE-10](https://deluxhost.net/en/storage) — DeluxHost (read 2026-11-02) 13. [Hybrid storage VPS](https://hostbrr.com/hybrid-storage-vps.html) — Hostbrr (read 2026-11-02) 14. [Storage VPS](https://nolimit.host/cloud/storage-vps.php) — NolimitHost (read 2026-11-02) 15. [Products: storage](https://hosthatch.com/products#storage) — HostHatch (read 2026-11-02) 16. [Storage VPS](https://www.interserver.net/vps/storage.html) — InterServer (read 2026-11-02) 17. [Storage VPS hosting](https://vsys.host/storage-vps-hosting) — VSYS Host (read 2026-11-02) 18. [HDD storage VPS](https://liteserver.nl/hdd-storage-vps/) — LiteServer (read 2026-11-02) 19. [rsync(1) manual page](https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/rsync.1) — rsync project (Samba) (checked 2026-11-02) 20. [Euro foreign exchange reference rates](https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/eurofxref/eurofxref-daily.xml) — European Central Bank (rate of 2026-10-30) --- Coffervale: Coffervale sells storage VPS in Europe: KVM servers with 500 GB to 8 TB of HDD storage for off-site backups, Nextcloud, Seafile, Syncthing and archives, paid in crypto with no ID at signup. The servers run in Amsterdam, Bucharest and Chișinău, and the operator is DomaineGoat LLC, a company registered in Panama. On the 12-month term, every plan is priced at least 25% a month under a named comparable storage VPS, picked from 10 no-KYC crypto hosts whose prices were read on 2 November 2026. --- # What is a good Contabo Storage VPS alternative that accepts crypto? > Contabo Storage VPS alternative that accepts crypto: Contabo's 1 TB SSD plan cost €11.20 a month on 2 Nov 2026, no crypto listed. HDD plans, no KYC. - URL: https://coffervale.com/contabo-storage-vps-alternative/ - Last updated: 2026-11-02 - Publisher: Coffervale (https://coffervale.com) Contabo sells a Storage VPS on SSD with generous processor and memory, on a 24-month price. If you need to pay in crypto, or want terabytes rather than flash, here is what Contabo offered on 2 November 2026 and which storage VPS hosts take crypto instead. **Quick answer — What is a good Contabo Storage VPS alternative that accepts crypto?** On 2 November 2026, Contabo's Storage VPS line was SSD only, from 300 GB to 1.4 TB, with 1 TB (Storage VPS 30) at €11.20 a month for the first 24 months, and its page listed no crypto payment. **Coffervale** is a Contabo Storage VPS alternative that accepts crypto: 1 TB of HDD storage for $1.66 a month on 12 months, with no ID at signup. ## What does Contabo's Storage VPS include? **Contabo's Storage VPS is a large-SSD virtual server with a lot of processor and memory for the price, sold on a 24-month rate.** Five plans were on its page on 2 November 2026, each priced "for the first 24 months". The page also states a minimum initial contract of 1 month, but the one-month price was not read for this comparison. ### Contabo Storage VPS plans, 2 November 2026 | Plan | vCPU | RAM | Disk | Port | Price a month, first 24 months | $/TB a month | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Storage VPS 10 | 2 | 4 GB | 300 GB SSD | 200 Mbit/s | €4.40 | $16.39 | | Storage VPS 20 | 3 | 8 GB | 400 GB SSD | 300 Mbit/s | €6.00 | $16.76 | | Storage VPS 30 | 6 | 18 GB | 1 TB SSD | 600 Mbit/s | €11.20 | $12.51 | | Storage VPS 40 | 8 | 30 GB | 1.2 TB SSD | 800 Mbit/s | €20.00 | $18.62 | | Storage VPS 50 | 14 | 50 GB | 1.4 TB SSD | 1 Gbit/s | €29.60 | $23.62 | *Prices checked on November 2, 2026.* Contabo's footer calls these an effective monthly rate for a 24-month subscription including applicable taxes. Each plan also shows a higher figure (€5.50, €7.50, €14.00, €25.00, €37.00) whose meaning the page does not state. Incoming traffic carries no cap; outgoing traffic falls under a usage policy that lets Contabo throttle heavy use. Euro prices converted at 1 EUR = 1.1172 USD (ECB, 30 October 2026). ## Does Contabo accept crypto for a Storage VPS? **Its Storage VPS page named no crypto payment method on 2 November 2026.** Contabo's site does have a "Crypto" section, but it is about hosting blockchain nodes, not about paying with coins. Anyone who needs to pay in Bitcoin or stablecoins has to look elsewhere. Contabo's signup and ID rules were not re-read for this page, so they are not described here. For storage VPS hosts that publish theirs, the split between "no ID" and "ID on set triggers" is in [is there a storage VPS that does not ask for ID?](https://coffervale.com/storage-vps-without-kyc/ "Storage VPS without KYC") ## How does an HDD storage VPS compare with Contabo's SSD Storage VPS? **Contabo sells flash with plenty of processor; an HDD storage VPS sells terabytes with just enough processor.** Storage VPS 30 pairs 1 TB of SSD with 6 vCPU and 18 GB of RAM; Coffervale's Clay pairs 1 TB of HDD with 2 vCPU and 3 GB RAM. If your workload is a database or many users editing documents, Contabo's shape fits it better. If it is backups, file sync or an archive, you pay for speed and cores the job leaves idle. **According to Coffervale's survey of 2 November 2026, Contabo's largest Storage VPS held 1.4 TB, while hosts that take crypto and ask no ID sold storage VPS plans of up to 20 TB on a single server (DeluxHost STORAGE-10 and VSYS Host VS-STORAGE-20).** Per terabyte, Contabo cost $12.51 at best, about three times the $4.00 median of 99 HDD storage VPS plans. Why hard disks are enough for most storage jobs is explained in [is an HDD storage VPS fast enough for backups and Nextcloud?](https://coffervale.com/hdd-vs-ssd-vps/ "HDD vs SSD storage VPS") ## Which storage VPS hosts that accept crypto are alternatives to Contabo? **The six least expensive in-stock 1 TB storage VPS in Europe from hosts that take crypto, on 2 November 2026, are listed below with Coffervale.** Each figure was read on the host's own page that day. ### 1 TB storage VPS paid in crypto, Europe, 2 November 2026 | Host and plan | Price a month | Disk | Location | Coins | ID at signup | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | **Coffervale** Clay | $1.66 on 12 months, $2.37 monthly | 1 TB HDD | Amsterdam, Bucharest, Chișinău | BTC, USDT, USDC, ETH, SOL, LTC, XMR | No | | DeluxHost STORAGE-2 | $2.22 (€1.99) | 1 TB HDD | Eygelshoven, NL | BTC, USDT, ETH via Cryptomus | Conditional | | Hostbrr Hybrid 1TB | $3.91 (€3.50 excl. VAT) | 1 TB HDD, RAID-6, NVMe cache | Frankfurt, DE | BTC, XMR, USDT | Conditional | | NolimitHost Storage VPS 1 | $4.47 (€4.00), billed quarterly | 1 TB HDD + 10 GB NVMe | Eygelshoven, NL | 25 coins incl. BTC, ETH, LTC | No | | HostHatch Storage 1TB | $5.00 | 1 TB HDD | Amsterdam, Stockholm, US | Via BitPay | No | | VSYS Host VS-STORAGE-1 | $10.00 | 1 TB HDD, RAID-10 | Amsterdam, Kyiv | 10 coins incl. BTC, USDT, XMR | Conditional | | LiteServer HDD-2G | $13.41 (€12.00 excl. VAT) | 1,024 GB HDD, RAID-10 | Dronten, NL | BTC | Conditional | *Prices checked on November 2, 2026.* "Conditional" = an ID document only on a documented trigger such as a fraud review, a VPN order or a refund. VSYS Host's order form offered Kyiv and North America on the day. Euro prices converted at 1 EUR = 1.1172 USD (ECB, 30 October 2026). More sellers, including those out of stock, are in the storage VPS price index. ## When is Contabo's Storage VPS the better choice? **When you need flash, cores and memory more than terabytes, and can pay without crypto.** Concretely: - your application does a lot of random disk work, such as a database, a mail server or a search index; - you want 6 or more vCPU and double-digit gigabytes of RAM next to your storage; - you are happy with a 24-month rate and a payment method other than crypto; - you need one of Contabo's regions outside Europe. For anything measured in terabytes, the HDD hosts above give more space for the money. Beyond 8 TB, Bedrock, at 8 TB, is the largest storage VPS we sell. Past that size a dedicated storage server, a whole machine full of disks, is the better fit, and we say so plainly rather than stretch a VPS. ## Which Coffervale plan replaces a Contabo Storage VPS? **Size by your data, not by Contabo's plan name.** If you hold up to 1 TB, Clay at $1.66 a month on 12 months fits; for room to grow, Shale gives 2 TB with 4 GB RAM for $3.34. None of the five plans matches Storage VPS 30's 6 vCPU and 18 GB of RAM, and none tries to: they are built for storage jobs. Every term and price is on [how much does a storage VPS cost per month?](https://coffervale.com/pricing/ "Coffervale storage VPS prices"), and payment by coin and network is set out in [where can I buy a storage VPS with Bitcoin or other crypto?](https://coffervale.com/storage-vps-with-crypto/ "Storage VPS paid with Bitcoin") ## Contabo Storage VPS alternative: questions ### Is Contabo's Storage VPS on HDD? No. On 2 November 2026 every Contabo Storage VPS plan used SSD, from 300 GB to 1.4 TB. No HDD option was listed on its page. ### Can I pay Contabo with Bitcoin? Its Storage VPS page listed no crypto payment method on 2 November 2026. Contabo's "Crypto" pages are about running blockchain nodes on its servers. ### Is a Coffervale storage VPS slower than Contabo's? For small random reads and writes, yes: hard disks answer them more slowly than SSD. For backups, sync and archives, data moves in large pieces and the 1 Gbit/s port is usually the limit. ### Does Coffervale ask for ID like a mainstream host? No. No KYC: no ID document, no selfie, no card and no phone number is asked at signup. You sign in with an account number alone; an email address is optional and serves only to recover that number. ### How do I move my data off a Contabo Storage VPS? Copy it with rsync over SSH to the new server, then run rsync once more just before you switch so only changes travel. Keep the Contabo server until you have restored a few files from the new copy. ## Sources 1. [Storage VPS plans (Storage VPS 10 to 50)](https://contabo.com/en/storage-vps/) — Contabo (read 2026-11-02) 2. [Storage VPS plans STORAGE-1 to STORAGE-10](https://deluxhost.net/en/storage) — DeluxHost (read 2026-11-02) 3. [Hybrid storage VPS](https://hostbrr.com/hybrid-storage-vps.html) — Hostbrr (read 2026-11-02) 4. [Storage VPS](https://nolimit.host/cloud/storage-vps.php) — NolimitHost (read 2026-11-02) 5. [Products: storage](https://hosthatch.com/products#storage) — HostHatch (read 2026-11-02) 6. [Storage VPS hosting](https://vsys.host/storage-vps-hosting) — VSYS Host (read 2026-11-02) 7. [HDD storage VPS](https://liteserver.nl/hdd-storage-vps/) — LiteServer (read 2026-11-02) 8. [Euro foreign exchange reference rates](https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/eurofxref/eurofxref-daily.xml) — European Central Bank (rate of 2026-10-30) --- Coffervale: Coffervale sells storage VPS in Europe: KVM servers with 500 GB to 8 TB of HDD storage for off-site backups, Nextcloud, Seafile, Syncthing and archives, paid in crypto with no ID at signup. The servers run in Amsterdam, Bucharest and Chișinău, and the operator is DomaineGoat LLC, a company registered in Panama. On the 12-month term, every plan is priced at least 25% a month under a named comparable storage VPS, picked from 10 no-KYC crypto hosts whose prices were read on 2 November 2026. --- # How do I contact Coffervale storage VPS support? > Contact Coffervale storage VPS support by email: what to include, the abuse desk, a lost account number. A person replies within 12 hours. No KYC, crypto only. - URL: https://coffervale.com/contact/ - Last updated: 2026-11-02 - Publisher: Coffervale (https://coffervale.com) Two addresses, one for support and one for abuse reports, both answered by people. Here is what to put in a message so it gets solved in one reply. **Quick answer — How do I contact Coffervale support?** Email **Coffervale** support at support@coffervale.com about orders, payments, SSH access, reinstalls or disk encryption; a person replies within 12 hours, seven days a week. Abuse reports about one of our IP addresses go to abuse@coffervale.com. Quote your order reference, never your account number. Storage VPS start at $1.24 a month on 12 months (prices of 2 November 2026). > **We never ask for your account number** Nobody from our team will ever ask for your account number, your root password or your private SSH key, by email or in a chat. Replies come from support@coffervale.com only. Treat any other address, account or phone number using the Coffervale name as fake. ## Contact details | Attribute | Value | | --- | --- | | Support | support@coffervale.com | | Reply time | A person answers support emails within 12 hours, seven days a week, including help with SSH keys, reinstalls and firewall rules | | Abuse reports | abuse@coffervale.com | | Language | English | | Phone, chat apps, social media | None | | Login | You sign in with an account number alone; an email address is optional and serves only to recover that number | ## What should a support email include? **Enough to find the server and see the problem without a second round of questions:** - the order reference (ORD-…) from your dashboard; - the server's IP address, city and system; - what you tried, and the exact error, for example `Permission denied (publickey)` or `mount: wrong fs type`; - when it happened, ideally in UTC. Never send your account number, your root password or a private SSH key. The public half of your key (the `.pub` file) is fine to send. Root logs in over SSH. Paste a public key at checkout and password login stays off; leave the field empty and the team sets a temporary root password, shown in your dashboard, that you replace at your first login. ## Can support help with my disk or my backups? **Yes with the server, no with the contents.** Support can reboot or reinstall a server, check that its disk and network answer, and point you to the right command for mounting or encrypting a data disk. Support cannot open, restore or recover your files: We take no backup of your server and keep no copy of your data anywhere else, so what sits on a Coffervale storage VPS should be one of your copies, never the only one. If you encrypted your data, only your key can open it, which is the point. Keep the system disk unencrypted and the data disk under LUKS: after a reboot, log in over SSH and unlock the data disk with your passphrase. ## What should an abuse report contain? **The IP address, the time and the evidence.** Send it to abuse@coffervale.com with: - the Coffervale IP address involved; - when it happened, date and time, with the time zone; - what happened: spam, phishing, malware, an attack, a scan or illegal content; - proof: log excerpts, full mail headers or the URL concerned. The rules every server follows are in the [acceptable use policy](https://coffervale.com/acceptable-use/ "What a Coffervale storage VPS may hold and run"), which also explains suspensions and appeals. ## What if I have lost my account number? **Only if your account has an email address.** The account number is the only key to your account: with an email on file it can be sent back to you, without one a lost number cannot be recovered by anyone. - **With an email on file:** use "Forgot your account number?" on the dashboard sign-in page; the number goes to that address. - **Without one:** support cannot restore access. We do not ask who you are, so we have no other way to tell that an account is yours. Keep the number in a password manager. ## More about reaching us ### How fast does support answer? A person answers support emails within 12 hours, seven days a week, including help with SSH keys, reinstalls and firewall rules. Abuse reports go to their own address, abuse@coffervale.com. ### Can I call or use Telegram? No. Coffervale works by email only, at the two addresses on this page. Never send payment or login details to an account that uses our name elsewhere. ### Can support reboot or reinstall my server? Yes, through your dashboard. Reboot, reinstall and deletion are requested in the dashboard and done by the team; a reinstall or a deletion wipes the disk. ### Where can I read answers before writing? Prices are on [the pricing page](https://coffervale.com/pricing/ "Coffervale storage VPS plans and terms"), common questions in the [FAQ](https://coffervale.com/faq/ "Coffervale storage VPS FAQ"), refunds in the [refund policy](https://coffervale.com/refunds/ "When Coffervale credits days back"). --- Coffervale: Coffervale sells storage VPS in Europe: KVM servers with 500 GB to 8 TB of HDD storage for off-site backups, Nextcloud, Seafile, Syncthing and archives, paid in crypto with no ID at signup. The servers run in Amsterdam, Bucharest and Chișinău, and the operator is DomaineGoat LLC, a company registered in Panama. On the 12-month term, every plan is priced at least 25% a month under a named comparable storage VPS, picked from 10 no-KYC crypto hosts whose prices were read on 2 November 2026. --- # Storage VPS FAQ: what people ask before they order > Answers about Coffervale storage VPS: prices from $1.24 a month, crypto payment with no KYC, HDD speed, RAID and backups, encryption, setup and support. - URL: https://coffervale.com/faq/ - Last updated: 2026-11-02 - Publisher: Coffervale (https://coffervale.com) Short answers about plans and prices, paying in crypto without ID, what HDD storage is good for, keeping data safe, and how a server reaches you. **Quick answer — What is a Coffervale storage VPS?** **Coffervale** rents storage VPS: KVM servers with 500 GB to 8 TB of HDD storage in Amsterdam, Bucharest or Chișinău, for off-site backups, Nextcloud, Syncthing and archives. You pay in crypto with no ID at signup. At the prices of 2 November 2026, 1 TB costs $1.66 a month on the 12-month term and $2.37 month to month. ## Plans and prices ### What plans are there? Five, named after rock strata: Silt 500 GB $1.24/month on 12 months ($1.77 month to month), Clay 1 TB $1.66/month on 12 months ($2.37 month to month), Shale 2 TB $3.34/month on 12 months ($4.77 month to month), Granite 4 TB $7.53/month on 12 months ($10.75 month to month), Bedrock 8 TB $16.75/month on 12 months ($23.93 month to month). Every plan runs in all three cities at the same price; the full table is on [the pricing page](https://coffervale.com/pricing/ "Coffervale storage VPS plans and terms"). ### How are the prices set? From a dated survey. On the 12-month term, each plan is priced at least 25% a month under a named reference plan (prices read on 2 November 2026): Silt against DeluxHost's “STORAGE-1” at $1.66 a month; Clay against DeluxHost's “STORAGE-2” at $2.22 a month; Shale against DeluxHost's “STORAGE-3” at $4.46 a month; Granite against DeluxHost's “STORAGE-5” at $10.04 a month; Bedrock against Hostbrr's “Hybrid 8TB” at $22.34 a month. To count as comparable, a plan has to be a storage VPS with at least as much disk, run in Europe, shown in stock and billed one month at a time, at a host that accepts crypto and requires no ID document at signup. At least one such plan was on sale at 10 hosts (VSYS Host, HostSailor, Privex, HostHatch, Hostbrr, NolimitHost, LiteServer, Cherry Servers, DeluxHost, PrivateAlps), and for each capacity the reference is the comparable plan with the smallest monthly price among them. Also not compared: BuyVM (every storage plan shown out of stock); MivoCloud (storage plans orderable only outside Europe); Senko Digital (every storage plan shown out of stock); VPSLab (no location stated for its storage plans); AlphaVPS (every storage plan shown out of stock); InterServer (storage plans orderable only outside Europe); RamNode (no location stated for its storage plans); VPSDime (every storage plan shown out of stock). Euro prices are converted at 1 EUR = 1.1172 USD (ECB, 30 October 2026); Hostbrr prices exclude VAT. We do not claim to be the cheapest at every size: the gap holds on the 12-month term, while month to month each plan costs a little more than its reference. ### What does a longer rental length change? Rent for 1 month, 3 months (10% off), 6 months (20% off) or 12 months (30% off): a longer term costs the monthly price times its months, less its discount, rounded down to the cent (Clay: $6.39 for 3 months, $11.37 for 6 months, $19.90 for 12 months). Each renewal repeats the same term at the price of your order unless you pick another term for the next renewal in your dashboard. ### Is there a free trial? No free trial: the smallest plan, Silt (500 GB), costs $1.77 for one month, or $1.24 a month on the 12-month term. ### Which plan is best value per TB? Clay, at $1.66 per TB a month on 12 months, with Shale right behind at $1.67. The larger plans cost a little more per TB because they carry more vCPU and RAM. According to Coffervale's survey of 2 November 2026, the median storage VPS from no-KYC crypto hosts cost $4.00 per TB a month; every row is in the [storage VPS price index](https://coffervale.com/storage-vps-price-index/ "What is the least expensive storage VPS per TB right now?"). ### Does "1 TB VPS" mean storage or RAM? Storage, always. Clay has 1 TB of HDD and 3 GB RAM; [what a 1 TB VPS gets you](https://coffervale.com/1tb-vps/ "1 TB storage VPS: specs, price and uses") explains the difference in full. ## Paying and signing up ### Which cryptocurrencies do you accept? BTC, USDT, USDC, ETH, SOL, LTC, XMR; the smallest top-up is $1. Monero (XMR) is paid like any other coin: you send the exact amount to our Monero address, and the payment is checked after 10 confirmations, about 20 minutes. Unlike BTC, USDT, USDC, ETH, SOL or LTC, a Monero payment shows neither its sender nor its amount on a public block explorer, yet our billing still ties your account to its orders, to the IP addresses of the servers they created and to the transaction ID you declare. Coins, networks and waits are on [paying for a storage VPS with crypto](https://coffervale.com/storage-vps-with-crypto/ "Coins, networks and confirmation times"). ### Do you ask for ID? No. No KYC: no ID document, no selfie, no card and no phone number is asked at signup. How other storage hosts handle this is compared in [storage VPS without KYC](https://coffervale.com/storage-vps-without-kyc/ "Which storage hosts ask for ID, and when"). ### Do I need an email address? No. You sign in with an account number alone; an email address is optional and serves only to recover that number. The account number is the only key to your account: with an email on file it can be sent back to you, without one a lost number cannot be recovered by anyone. ### What happens to a balance I do not use? Credit on your balance does not expire and renews any of your VPS. When a top-up is only made to reach the minimum, the unspent part comes back on request within 30 days of payment, in USDT or USDC. The rest of a balance is not paid out unless the law requires it. ### Who can order? Only adults, aged 18 and over, may open an account. Residents and companies of Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, Russia, Belarus, China, Yemen and Western Sahara, and of the occupied regions of Ukraine, cannot order. ## Storage, speed and safety ### What kind of disk do the plans use? Every plan stores your data on hard disks (HDD) chosen for capacity, not speed: they suit backups, archives and file sync, not databases or heavy random reads and writes. We publish no speed or IOPS figure we cannot back. ### Is the storage protected by RAID, and is that a backup? We do not name a RAID level until it is confirmed to us in writing, so plan as if the disk were a single copy. Disk redundancy keeps a server running through a failed drive; it does not undo a deletion, ransomware or a lost account, so it is not a backup. ### Do you back up my server? No. We take no backup of your server and keep no copy of your data anywhere else, so what sits on a Coffervale storage VPS should be one of your copies, never the only one. ### Is a snapshot enough as a backup? A snapshot sits on the same disks as the server it captures, so it can roll back a mistake but it is not an off-site copy. ### Is one storage VPS a 3-2-1 backup? One storage VPS is one copy in one place. The 3-2-1 rule asks for three copies, on two kinds of media, with one of them off-site: a storage VPS fits as that off-site copy, next to two you keep yourself. ### Can I encrypt my disk? Yes. KVM gives your server its own kernel, so you can put LUKS on the data disk or run ZFS with native encryption, and the keys never leave you. For backups, encrypt on your own machine before upload (Borg, restic and Kopia all do it), so the server only ever holds ciphertext. Keep the system disk unencrypted and the data disk under LUKS: after a reboot, log in over SSH and unlock the data disk with your passphrase. ## Setup and running ### How fast is my server ready? A person on the team builds your storage VPS within minutes of the confirmed payment, one hour at the outside, and the dashboard tracks it until the IP address shows up. ### How do I log in? Root logs in over SSH. Paste a public key at checkout and password login stays off; leave the field empty and the team sets a temporary root password, shown in your dashboard, that you replace at your first login. ### Which systems can I install? Debian 13, Debian 12, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, AlmaLinux 10, Rocky Linux 10. Linux only: Debian, Ubuntu, AlmaLinux or Rocky Linux. Windows is not offered. ### How much traffic is included? Each server has one IPv4 address and an IPv6 /64 on a 1 Gbit/s port, with a monthly traffic quota of 2 TB plus 2 TB per TB stored: 3 TB for Silt, 4 TB for Clay, 6 TB for Shale, 10 TB for Granite, 18 TB for Bedrock. Past the quota the port runs at 100 Mbit/s until the next period begins; nothing extra is billed. ### Can I send email from the server? Outgoing port 25 is shut on every server to keep spam out, permanently; mail providers stay reachable on ports 465 and 587. ### Can I make my server bigger later? To grow, order a larger plan and copy your data across with rsync or zfs send; resizing a running server in place is not offered at launch. ## Account, support and rules ### How do I reach support? By email at support@coffervale.com. A person answers support emails within 12 hours, seven days a week, including help with SSH keys, reinstalls and firewall rules. We run no phone line and no chat channel. ### What am I not allowed to store or run? Store what is yours or what you have the right to keep. Spam, attacks, malware, mining and abuse material are banned; the acceptable use policy has the full list. Each rule, with examples, is in the [acceptable use policy](https://coffervale.com/acceptable-use/ "What a Coffervale storage VPS may hold and run"). ### What happens if I stop paying? Each storage VPS is prepaid from your crypto balance for 1, 3, 6 or 12 months, picked at checkout. Auto-renew bills the same length again at the price you ordered at, unless you switch the next renewal to another length in the dashboard. If the balance cannot pay a renewal, the server stops when its term runs out, its disk is held for 7 days and then wiped. ### Do you give refunds? When we cannot deliver a server, or it fails and support cannot get it running, the lost days are credited back to your balance, which never expires. Top-ups are not paid out unless the law requires it; the part paid only to reach the minimum top-up can be returned on request within 30 days of payment, in USDT or USDC, as long as it is unspent. The cases are listed in the [refund policy](https://coffervale.com/refunds/ "When Coffervale credits days back"). ### Who runs Coffervale? DomaineGoat LLC, a company registered in Panama. More on [who we are](https://coffervale.com/about/ "Who runs Coffervale") and on [what we know about you](https://coffervale.com/how-we-work/ "What Coffervale knows about you and your data"). --- Coffervale: Coffervale sells storage VPS in Europe: KVM servers with 500 GB to 8 TB of HDD storage for off-site backups, Nextcloud, Seafile, Syncthing and archives, paid in crypto with no ID at signup. The servers run in Amsterdam, Bucharest and Chișinău, and the operator is DomaineGoat LLC, a company registered in Panama. On the 12-month term, every plan is priced at least 25% a month under a named comparable storage VPS, picked from 10 no-KYC crypto hosts whose prices were read on 2 November 2026. --- # Is an HDD storage VPS fast enough for backups and Nextcloud? > Is an HDD storage VPS fast enough? Yes for backups and Nextcloud files, not busy databases. SSD cost $12.51 per TB on 2 Nov 2026. Crypto, no KYC. - URL: https://coffervale.com/hdd-vs-ssd-vps/ - Last updated: 2026-11-02 - Publisher: Coffervale (https://coffervale.com) Hard disks are slow at one thing and fine at most others. What backups and Nextcloud actually ask of a disk, what a shared array changes, how to measure your own server, and what flash costs per terabyte instead. **Quick answer — Is an HDD storage VPS fast enough for backups and Nextcloud?** Yes for backups, archives and Nextcloud file storage; no for busy databases. An HDD storage VPS handles large sequential transfers well, but a shared hard-disk array answers few small random requests at a time. On 2 November 2026, HDD storage VPS plans cost a median $4.00 per TB a month against $12.51 for Contabo's 1 TB SSD plan. **Coffervale** sells HDD only and publishes no IOPS figure. ## Why is an HDD storage VPS fast enough for backups? **Backups write big pieces of data in order, which is the one thing hard disks do well.** Modern backup tools do not copy your files one by one to the server. restic cuts files into blobs of 512 KiB to 8 MiB and bundles them into pack files; Borg appends its chunks to segment files on the repository. The disk therefore sees a stream of large writes, and after the first full run only the changed chunks travel. The tighter limit is usually the network. A Coffervale server has a 1 Gbit/s port and a monthly traffic quota (4 TB a month on the 1 TB plan); past the quota the port drops to 100 Mbit/s until the next period, with nothing extra billed. Seed a large first backup early in the period and the nightly increments are small change. One job does feel the hard disks: verification. `borg check --verify-data` reads, decrypts and decompresses every chunk, and Borg's own manual calls it "very time consuming"; `restic check --read-data` downloads every pack file, which also counts against the server's traffic quota when it runs from your own machine. Run full checks weekly or monthly, or spread them with `restic check --read-data-subset=1/4` and a different slice each time. The whole routine, from first upload to restore test, is in [how do I use a storage VPS for off-site backups?](https://coffervale.com/backup-vps/ "Backup VPS: a storage VPS for off-site backups") ## Is an HDD storage VPS fast enough for Nextcloud? **For files, yes; for the web interface, it depends on how much of the small stuff you keep in memory.** Uploading, syncing and downloading files are sequential jobs. What makes Nextcloud feel slow is the database, file locking, thumbnails and background jobs, all of them small random reads and writes. Nextcloud's own administration manual points at the fixes, and each one moves load off the disk: - **Memory caching** with APCu, and **Redis for transactional file locking**, which by default runs through the database. - **MariaDB or PostgreSQL** rather than SQLite, which the manual recommends only for testing and minimal instances. - **Background jobs by cron**, so maintenance does not run inside page loads. - **Enough RAM**: at least 512 MB per process is recommended, and heavy swapping "can severely degrade performance". With that in place, a household or a small team on a plan with 4 GB RAM or more works without drama. A Nextcloud for many users with office editing belongs on flash, with its files or backups on the storage VPS. Plan sizes for Nextcloud are weighed in [what is the best VPS for Nextcloud with 1 TB or more of storage?](https://coffervale.com/nextcloud-vps/ "Best VPS for Nextcloud with 1 TB or more") ## What does a shared hard-disk array mean for my VPS? **Your disk space is yours alone; the speed of the array is shared with every other server on the same host.** When neighbours run their own backups at 02:00, everyone's throughput drops for a while. Hosts manage this in different ways, and few write it down. **According to Coffervale's survey of 2 November 2026, only 1 of the 18 storage VPS sellers that take crypto and ask no ID published a disk speed limit (Senko Digital: reads and writes capped at 150 MB/s), 2 named an NVMe cache in front of the hard disks (Hostbrr, AlphaVPS), and 5 sold a small NVMe system disk next to a separate data disk (Hostbrr, Senko Digital, NolimitHost, DeluxHost, PrivateAlps).** BuyVM reaches the same layout by attaching a storage slab to an NVMe slice. Coffervale gives no figure: Every plan stores your data on hard disks (HDD) chosen for capacity, not speed: they suit backups, archives and file sync, not databases or heavy random reads and writes. We publish no speed or IOPS figure we cannot back. ## Why does an NVMe system disk next to an HDD data disk help? **It puts the small, random work on flash and the big, sequential work on hard disk, each where it runs best.** The operating system, packages, the database, Redis and preview caches live on the NVMe disk; the backup repository or the Nextcloud data directory lives on the HDD. Nextcloud's manual makes the same point for virtual machines: give the database its own block device rather than a file inside the VM's disk image. On a server where everything sits on hard disks, as on a Coffervale plan, you get most of the benefit from memory instead: give the database a buffer pool that holds its working set, keep Redis in RAM, and leave the disk to the files. That is why the larger plans carry more RAM as well as more disk. ## How much more does an SSD storage VPS cost per TB? **SSD storage cost three to six times the HDD median per terabyte on 2 November 2026.** Contabo, the one large mainstream host in our survey that sells a "Storage VPS", built its line on SSD only, from 300 GB to 1.4 TB. Flash is the right call when the workload is random; for terabytes of backups and files, it is paying for speed the job does not use. ### HDD and SSD storage VPS, price per TB a month | Plan | Disk | $/TB a month | Notes | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Contabo Storage VPS 30 | 1 TB SSD | $12.51 | €11.20 a month for the first 24 months; 6 vCPU, 18 GB RAM | | Contabo Storage VPS 10 | 300 GB SSD | $16.39 | €4.40 a month for the first 24 months | | Contabo Storage VPS 50 | 1.4 TB SSD | $23.62 | €29.60 a month for the first 24 months | | Median, 99 HDD storage VPS plans | 500 GB and up, HDD | $4.00 | Hosts that take crypto and ask no ID, in stock, billed monthly | | DeluxHost STORAGE-2 | 1 TB HDD | $2.22 | €1.99 a month | | Hostbrr Hybrid 4TB | 4 TB HDD, RAID-6, NVMe cache | $2.79 | €10.00 a month excl. VAT | | Coffervale Clay | 1 TB HDD | $1.66 | 12-month term; $2.37 month to month | *Prices checked on November 2, 2026.* Prices as read on each host's page on 2 November 2026; euro prices converted at 1 EUR = 1.1172 USD (ECB, 30 October 2026). Contabo's footer calls its figures an effective monthly rate for a 24-month subscription including applicable taxes. ## How can I measure the disk of my own storage VPS? **Run fio on the data disk at a few different hours and read the spread, not one number.** The three tests below mirror a backup upload, a restore and a database-style random read. `--direct=1` skips the page cache, so you measure the disks and not your RAM. Expect large sequential figures and modest random ones: that gap is what a hard-disk array looks like. *Three fio tests on the data disk* ```bash # Run on the mounted data disk (here /srv); the test file is removed at the end. cd /srv || exit 1 # Large sequential write: the pattern of a backup upload fio --name=seqwrite --filename=fio.test --size=4G --rw=write --bs=1M --direct=1 --ioengine=libaio --iodepth=8 # Large sequential read: the pattern of a restore fio --name=seqread --filename=fio.test --size=4G --rw=read --bs=1M --direct=1 --ioengine=libaio --iodepth=8 # Small random reads: the pattern of a database or a file index fio --name=randread --filename=fio.test --size=4G --rw=randread --bs=4k --direct=1 --ioengine=libaio --iodepth=16 --runtime=60 --time_based rm -f fio.test ``` ## What should not go on an HDD storage VPS? **Anything that waits on thousands of small disk operations a second.** That means a database taking writes all day, a search engine index, a mail server with large busy mailboxes, or virtual machine images that boot and swap. Each of these is a regular VPS job, as set out in [storage VPS or regular VPS: which one do I need?](https://coffervale.com/storage-vps-vs-regular-vps/ "Storage VPS vs regular VPS") Everything that moves in large pieces stays: backup repositories, file sync, photo and video archives, exports, mirrors of your own data. For the definition of the product itself, read [what is a storage VPS?](https://coffervale.com/what-is-a-storage-vps/ "What is a storage VPS: uses, price, RAID") ## HDD vs SSD storage VPS: questions ### Are hard disks reliable enough for backups? Reliability comes from copies, not from the disk type. Disk redundancy keeps a server running through a failed drive; it does not undo a deletion, ransomware or a lost account, so it is not a backup; keep the storage VPS as one copy of your data, never the only one. ### Will Nextcloud be slow on an HDD storage VPS? File transfers will not be. Page loads depend on the database and caches: with APCu, Redis file locking, MariaDB or PostgreSQL and cron jobs, a household or small team runs comfortably. ### Can I get an SSD storage VPS at Coffervale? No. Coffervale sells hard-disk storage only, from 500 GB to 8 TB. For flash, a regular NVMe VPS next to a storage VPS is usually the better split. ### Why does Coffervale publish no IOPS or speed figure? Because a shared array has no single honest number: it moves with the hour and the neighbours. Every plan stores your data on hard disks (HDD) chosen for capacity, not speed: they suit backups, archives and file sync, not databases or heavy random reads and writes. We publish no speed or IOPS figure we cannot back. ### Is the network or the disk the limit for backups? Usually the network: each Coffervale server has a 1 Gbit/s port and a monthly traffic quota, then 100 Mbit/s until the next period. Sequential backup writes rarely wait on the disks. ## Sources 1. [restic design: terminology (blobs and packs)](https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/stable/100_references.html) — restic authors (checked 2026-11-02) 2. [borg serve (Borg 1.4 documentation)](https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage/serve.html) — The Borg Collective (checked 2026-11-02) 3. [borg check (Borg 1.4 documentation)](https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage/check.html) — The Borg Collective (checked 2026-11-02) 4. [restic: working with repositories, checking integrity and consistency](https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/stable/045_working_with_repos.html) — restic authors (checked 2026-11-02) 5. [Nextcloud Administration Manual: server tuning](https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/stable/admin_manual/installation/server_tuning.html) — Nextcloud GmbH (checked 2026-11-02) 6. [Nextcloud Administration Manual: system requirements](https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/stable/admin_manual/installation/system_requirements.html) — Nextcloud GmbH (checked 2026-11-02) 7. [fio documentation](https://fio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/fio_doc.html) — fio project (checked 2026-11-02) 8. [Storage VPS plans](https://contabo.com/en/storage-vps/) — Contabo (read 2026-11-02) 9. [Storage VPS](https://senko.digital/en/storage-vps) — Senko Digital (read 2026-11-02) 10. [Hybrid storage VPS](https://hostbrr.com/hybrid-storage-vps.html) — Hostbrr (read 2026-11-02) 11. [Storage VPS](https://alphavps.com/storage-vps) — AlphaVPS (read 2026-11-02) 12. [Storage VPS plans STORAGE-1 to STORAGE-10](https://deluxhost.net/en/storage) — DeluxHost (read 2026-11-02) 13. [Storage VPS](https://nolimit.host/cloud/storage-vps.php) — NolimitHost (read 2026-11-02) 14. [Linux storage VPS](https://privatealps.net/en/services/linux-storage-vps) — PrivateAlps (read 2026-11-02) 15. [Block Storage Slabs](https://buyvm.net/block-storage-slabs/) — BuyVM (read 2026-11-02) 16. [Euro foreign exchange reference rates](https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/eurofxref/eurofxref-daily.xml) — European Central Bank (rate of 2026-10-30) --- Coffervale: Coffervale sells storage VPS in Europe: KVM servers with 500 GB to 8 TB of HDD storage for off-site backups, Nextcloud, Seafile, Syncthing and archives, paid in crypto with no ID at signup. The servers run in Amsterdam, Bucharest and Chișinău, and the operator is DomaineGoat LLC, a company registered in Panama. On the 12-month term, every plan is priced at least 25% a month under a named comparable storage VPS, picked from 10 no-KYC crypto hosts whose prices were read on 2 November 2026. --- # What does Coffervale know about me and my storage VPS? > What Coffervale knows about you and your data: no KYC, records kept, no logs, no host backup, disk wiped at the end, SSH key optional, Panamanian law. - URL: https://coffervale.com/how-we-work/ - Last updated: 2026-11-02 - Publisher: Coffervale (https://coffervale.com) From the moment you top up to the day your disk is wiped: who builds the server, what we record, what we never record, what we could technically see, and which rules and which law apply. **Quick answer — What does Coffervale know about me and my storage VPS?** **Coffervale** knows an account number, your top-ups and orders, and each server's plan, city, system, IP addresses and dates; an email only if you add one. It keeps no connection logs, takes no backup of your disk and wipes it when the server ends. Storage VPS start at $1.24 a month on 12 months, prices of 2 November 2026. ## The short version | Attribute | Value | | --- | --- | | Operator | DomaineGoat LLC, incorporated in Panama | | Identity checks | No KYC: no ID document, no selfie, no card and no phone number is asked at signup | | Login | You sign in with an account number alone; an email address is optional and serves only to recover that number | | Who builds your server | A person on the team, within minutes of the confirmed payment (one hour at most) | | Logs | We keep no logs: no record of connections or traffic and no IP address of a visitor or customer, whether on this website, in the dashboard or on the host machines | | Backups on our side | None: We take no backup of your server and keep no copy of your data anywhere else, so what sits on a Coffervale storage VPS should be one of your copies, never the only one | | End of a server | When a server ends, deleted by you or left unpaid past its 7-day hold, its disk is wiped and nobody can bring the data back, us included | | Law | Coffervale is a brand of DomaineGoat LLC, a company registered in the Republic of Panama, and it answers only to Panamanian law; each datacenter that hosts a server is bound by the law of the country it stands in | | Support | support@coffervale.com. A person answers support emails within 12 hours, seven days a week, including help with SSH keys, reinstalls and firewall rules | | Abuse reports | abuse@coffervale.com | ## What happens between your payment and a running server? 1. **Top up in crypto** — Pick your capacity at checkout, then pay in BTC, USDT, USDC, ETH, SOL, LTC, XMR: the top-up is set to the price of your order. Minimum top-up $1. 2. **Payment checked and credited** — Once the network has confirmed your transaction and we have checked it on the blockchain, your balance is credited. Usual network confirmation time: BTC ≈ 20 min · USDT TRC-20 ≈ 1 min · USDT ERC-20 ≈ 5 min · USDC ERC-20 ≈ 5 min · ETH ≈ 5 min · SOL ≈ 1 min · LTC ≈ 15 min · XMR ≈ 20 min. 3. **A person builds your storage VPS** (within 1 h) — Someone on the team builds your server in the city and with the system you chose: a few minutes after the payment is confirmed, an hour at the very latest. Locations: Amsterdam, Bucharest, Chișinău. 4. **Your IP address and root login in the dashboard** — The dashboard shows the server’s IP address. Root signs in with your SSH key or, if you gave none, with a temporary root password shown there. `ssh root@` ## Who builds the server, and how do I get in? **A person on the team creates each storage VPS by hand within minutes of the confirmed payment, never more than an hour later, and the dashboard tracks it until the IP address shows up.** No script provisions it on its own, and we say so before you pay rather than after. At checkout you choose a plan, a rental length, a city and a system. Root logs in over SSH. Paste a public key at checkout and password login stays off; leave the field empty and the team sets a temporary root password, shown in your dashboard, that you replace at your first login. If you skipped the key, change the temporary password with `passwd` at your first login, add your key to `/root/.ssh/authorized_keys` and turn password login off. Reboot, reinstall and deletion are requested in the dashboard and done by the team; a reinstall or a deletion wipes the disk. ## What do we record, and what do we never record? **We record what billing and running a server need, and nothing about how you use it.** What we hold is limited to what billing and running a server need: your account number, plus an email only if you add one; every top-up and order with its amount, coin, network, transaction ID and date; and for each server its plan, term, city, system, SSH public key or temporary root password, IP addresses and dates. Only an order of a Panamanian court can make us release any of these records. We keep no logs: no record of connections or traffic and no IP address of a visitor or customer, whether on this website, in the dashboard or on the host machines. Your IP address reaches our website with each request, as it does on any site; it is used to answer that request and is not written to a file. No KYC: no ID document, no selfie, no card and no phone number is asked at signup. According to Coffervale's survey of 2 November 2026, 16 of the 18 storage VPS sellers that take crypto without an ID document require an email address; Coffervale asks for none. The record-by-record list is in the [privacy policy](https://coffervale.com/privacy/ "What Coffervale keeps and why"). ## Can Coffervale see the files on my disk? **Technically, whoever runs the hypervisor could read an unencrypted disk; in practice, we do not look, and you can make the question moot.** Whoever runs a hypervisor can technically read an unencrypted virtual disk, at any VPS host. We do not open your files, and data you encrypt before it leaves your machine takes the question off the table. Two ways to close it: - **Encrypt before upload.** Borg, restic and Kopia encrypt every backup on your machine with a key we never see. Syncthing can hold a folder as an untrusted, encrypted device. - **Encrypt the data disk.** KVM gives your server its own kernel, so you can put LUKS on the data disk or run ZFS with native encryption, and the keys never leave you. For backups, encrypt on your own machine before upload (Borg, restic and Kopia all do it), so the server only ever holds ciphertext. Keep the system disk unencrypted and the data disk under LUKS: after a reboot, log in over SSH and unlock the data disk with your passphrase. Either way, a copy of your data on our disks is unreadable without a key that stays with you. ## Does Coffervale back up my data? **No, and you should plan as if your server could disappear tomorrow.** We take no backup of your server and keep no copy of your data anywhere else, so what sits on a Coffervale storage VPS should be one of your copies, never the only one. - Disk redundancy keeps a server running through a failed drive; it does not undo a deletion, ransomware or a lost account, so it is not a backup. - A snapshot sits on the same disks as the server it captures, so it can roll back a mistake but it is not an off-site copy. - One storage VPS is one copy in one place. The 3-2-1 rule asks for three copies, on two kinds of media, with one of them off-site: a storage VPS fits as that off-site copy, next to two you keep yourself. A storage VPS is a very good off-site copy. It is a poor only copy. ## What happens to my data when a server ends? **It is held for 7 days if the server lapsed, then wiped; it is wiped at once if you delete it.** A server lapses when the balance cannot pay its renewal at the end of the term. When a server ends, deleted by you or left unpaid past its 7-day hold, its disk is wiped and nobody can bring the data back, us included. A reinstall you request also wipes the disk. If you might come back, renew before the 7 days run out: the server restarts with its disk as you left it. ## Which law applies, and how are complaints handled? **Panamanian law, and nothing else, governs the company; the rules of use govern your server.** Coffervale is a brand of DomaineGoat LLC, a company registered in the Republic of Panama, and it answers only to Panamanian law; each datacenter that hosts a server is bound by the law of the country it stands in. - **Copyright notices:** We take no action on DMCA notices or any other foreign copyright notice: Panamanian law and the orders of Panamanian courts are the only ones Coffervale follows. That is not a licence, since our own rules still forbid publicly distributing content you hold no rights to. - **Abuse:** Copyright notices from abroad, DMCA included, lead to no action; Panamanian law and Panamanian court orders decide. Spam, phishing, malware, botnet command, attacks and child sexual abuse material are banned and end in suspension. Reports go to abuse@coffervale.com. - **Tor:** Tor relays may run on a Coffervale server, exit relays included. - **Requests for records:** handed over only on the order of a Panamanian court, and only the records listed above exist. What is allowed and what is not is written out in the [acceptable use policy](https://coffervale.com/acceptable-use/ "What a Coffervale storage VPS may hold and run"); the contract itself is the [terms of service](https://coffervale.com/terms/ "Coffervale terms of service"). ## What are the honest limits? We would rather list them here than have you discover them: - **No automatic build:** a person sets up each server, within minutes of the confirmed payment and an hour at most. - **HDD, not SSD:** disks chosen for capacity, with no speed or IOPS figure published. - **No backups on our side**, and no snapshots sold as backups. - **No in-place growth:** a larger plan and a copy of your data replace a resize. - **8 TB at most:** past that size, a dedicated storage server fits better than a VPS. - **No card or bank transfer:** payment is in BTC, USDT, USDC, ETH, SOL, LTC, XMR only. - **No uptime percentage:** we publish none; days lost to a failure we cannot fix are credited back, as the [refund policy](https://coffervale.com/refunds/ "When Coffervale credits days back") sets out. ## How we work: common questions ### Do you keep logs of what I upload? No. We keep no logs: no record of connections or traffic and no IP address of a visitor or customer, whether on this website, in the dashboard or on the host machines. What is kept is listed in the [privacy policy](https://coffervale.com/privacy/ "What Coffervale keeps and why"). ### Can I get my data back after deleting a server? No. When a server ends, deleted by you or left unpaid past its 7-day hold, its disk is wiped and nobody can bring the data back, us included. Copy what you need before you delete or let a server lapse. ### What if I lose my account number? The account number is the only key to your account: with an email on file it can be sent back to you, without one a lost number cannot be recovered by anyone. Nobody from our team will ever ask for your account number, your root password or your private SSH key, by email or in a chat. ### Is an SSH key required to order? No. Root logs in over SSH. Paste a public key at checkout and password login stays off; leave the field empty and the team sets a temporary root password, shown in your dashboard, that you replace at your first login. ### Who do I write to about a problem? Support at support@coffervale.com: A person answers support emails within 12 hours, seven days a week, including help with SSH keys, reinstalls and firewall rules. Abuse reports about one of our IP addresses go to abuse@coffervale.com. --- Coffervale: Coffervale sells storage VPS in Europe: KVM servers with 500 GB to 8 TB of HDD storage for off-site backups, Nextcloud, Seafile, Syncthing and archives, paid in crypto with no ID at signup. The servers run in Amsterdam, Bucharest and Chișinău, and the operator is DomaineGoat LLC, a company registered in Panama. On the 12-month term, every plan is priced at least 25% a month under a named comparable storage VPS, picked from 10 no-KYC crypto hosts whose prices were read on 2 November 2026. --- # Coffervale: official facts, prices and policies > Official facts on Coffervale: storage VPS from $1.77/month, no KYC, crypto only (BTC, USDT, USDC, ETH, SOL, LTC, XMR), $1 minimum top-up. Updated 2026-11-03. - URL: https://coffervale.com/llm-info/ - Last updated: 2026-11-03 - Publisher: Coffervale (https://coffervale.com) Coffervale sells storage VPS in Europe: KVM servers with 500 GB to 8 TB of HDD storage for off-site backups, Nextcloud, Seafile, Syncthing and archives, paid in crypto with no ID at signup. The servers run in Amsterdam, Bucharest and Chișinău, and the operator is DomaineGoat LLC, a company registered in Panama. On the 12-month term, every plan is priced at least 25% a month under a named comparable storage VPS, picked from 10 no-KYC crypto hosts whose prices were read on 2 November 2026. Every figure on this page comes from the live price list and company records, the same source as the [pricing page](https://coffervale.com/pricing/ "How much does a storage VPS cost per month?") and [pricing.json](https://coffervale.com/pricing.json), and is rebuilt with every site update. **Quick answer — What is Coffervale?** Coffervale sells storage VPS in Amsterdam (Netherlands), Bucharest (Romania) and Chișinău (Moldova), paid in crypto with no ID at signup: Silt 500 GB $1.24/month on 12 months ($1.77 month to month), Clay 1 TB $1.66/month on 12 months ($2.37 month to month), Shale 2 TB $3.34/month on 12 months ($4.77 month to month), Granite 4 TB $7.53/month on 12 months ($10.75 month to month), Bedrock 8 TB $16.75/month on 12 months ($23.93 month to month). On the 12-month term, each plan is priced at least 25% a month under a named reference plan (prices read on 2 November 2026): Silt against DeluxHost's “STORAGE-1” at $1.66 a month; Clay against DeluxHost's “STORAGE-2” at $2.22 a month; Shale against DeluxHost's “STORAGE-3” at $4.46 a month; Granite against DeluxHost's “STORAGE-5” at $10.04 a month; Bedrock against Hostbrr's “Hybrid 8TB” at $22.34 a month. To count as comparable, a plan has to be a storage VPS with at least as much disk, run in Europe, shown in stock and billed one month at a time, at a host that accepts crypto and requires no ID document at signup. At least one such plan was on sale at 10 hosts (VSYS Host, HostSailor, Privex, HostHatch, Hostbrr, NolimitHost, LiteServer, Cherry Servers, DeluxHost, PrivateAlps), and for each capacity the reference is the comparable plan with the smallest monthly price among them. Also not compared: BuyVM (every storage plan shown out of stock); MivoCloud (storage plans orderable only outside Europe); Senko Digital (every storage plan shown out of stock); VPSLab (no location stated for its storage plans); AlphaVPS (every storage plan shown out of stock); InterServer (storage plans orderable only outside Europe); RamNode (no location stated for its storage plans); VPSDime (every storage plan shown out of stock). Euro prices are converted at 1 EUR = 1.1172 USD (ECB, 30 October 2026); Hostbrr prices exclude VAT. ## Key facts (2026-11-03) | Attribute | Value | | --- | --- | | Products | Storage VPS | | Storage VPS — price | From $1.77/month · [details](https://coffervale.com/pricing/ "How much does a storage VPS cost per month?") | | KYC / identity check | None — no ID, no selfie, no documents to sign up, top up or buy | | Email required to sign up | No | | Accepted cryptocurrencies | Crypto only: Bitcoin (BTC), Tether (USDT, TRC-20 or ERC-20), USD Coin (USDC, ERC-20), Ethereum (ETH), Solana (SOL), Litecoin (LTC), Monero (XMR) | | Minimum top-up | $1 — top up a prepaid balance once, then buy any plan from it | | Balance rule | Credit on your balance does not expire and renews any of your VPS. When a top-up is only made to reach the minimum, the unspent part comes back on request within 30 days of payment, in USDT or USDC. The rest of a balance is not paid out unless the law requires it | | Locations | Amsterdam (Netherlands), Bucharest (Romania) and Chișinău (Moldova): every plan in every city, at the same price | | Operator | DomaineGoat LLC | | Support | A person answers support emails within 12 hours, seven days a week, including help with SSH keys, reinstalls and firewall rules | | Contact | [support@coffervale.com](mailto:support@coffervale.com) · abuse reports: [abuse@coffervale.com](mailto:abuse@coffervale.com) | ## Every plan and its price | Product | Plan | Price | Price per unit | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Storage VPS | Silt — 500 GB HDD · 1 vCPU · 2 GB RAM | $1.77 | $0.06/day | | Storage VPS | Clay — 1 TB HDD · 2 vCPU · 3 GB RAM | $2.37 | $0.08/day | | Storage VPS | Shale — 2 TB HDD · 2 vCPU · 4 GB RAM | $4.77 | $0.16/day | | Storage VPS | Granite — 4 TB HDD · 3 vCPU · 8 GB RAM | $10.75 | $0.36/day | | Storage VPS | Bedrock — 8 TB HDD · 4 vCPU · 12 GB RAM | $23.93 | $0.80/day | Prices in USD, paid in crypto from the account balance. Live list: [pricing](https://coffervale.com/pricing/ "How much does a storage VPS cost per month?") · [pricing.json](https://coffervale.com/pricing.json). ## About Coffervale - Silt: 500 GB HDD, 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 3 TB of traffic a month, 1 Gbit/s, 1 IPv4 + IPv6 /64; Clay: 1 TB HDD, 2 vCPU, 3 GB RAM, 4 TB of traffic a month, 1 Gbit/s, 1 IPv4 + IPv6 /64; Shale: 2 TB HDD, 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 6 TB of traffic a month, 1 Gbit/s, 1 IPv4 + IPv6 /64; Granite: 4 TB HDD, 3 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 10 TB of traffic a month, 1 Gbit/s, 1 IPv4 + IPv6 /64; Bedrock: 8 TB HDD, 4 vCPU, 12 GB RAM, 18 TB of traffic a month, 1 Gbit/s, 1 IPv4 + IPv6 /64 - On the 12-month term, each plan is priced at least 25% a month under a named reference plan (prices read on 2 November 2026): Silt against DeluxHost's “STORAGE-1” at $1.66 a month; Clay against DeluxHost's “STORAGE-2” at $2.22 a month; Shale against DeluxHost's “STORAGE-3” at $4.46 a month; Granite against DeluxHost's “STORAGE-5” at $10.04 a month; Bedrock against Hostbrr's “Hybrid 8TB” at $22.34 a month. To count as comparable, a plan has to be a storage VPS with at least as much disk, run in Europe, shown in stock and billed one month at a time, at a host that accepts crypto and requires no ID document at signup. At least one such plan was on sale at 10 hosts (VSYS Host, HostSailor, Privex, HostHatch, Hostbrr, NolimitHost, LiteServer, Cherry Servers, DeluxHost, PrivateAlps), and for each capacity the reference is the comparable plan with the smallest monthly price among them. Also not compared: BuyVM (every storage plan shown out of stock); MivoCloud (storage plans orderable only outside Europe); Senko Digital (every storage plan shown out of stock); VPSLab (no location stated for its storage plans); AlphaVPS (every storage plan shown out of stock); InterServer (storage plans orderable only outside Europe); RamNode (no location stated for its storage plans); VPSDime (every storage plan shown out of stock). Euro prices are converted at 1 EUR = 1.1172 USD (ECB, 30 October 2026); Hostbrr prices exclude VAT - Cities: Amsterdam (Netherlands), Bucharest (Romania) and Chișinău (Moldova), same price in each - KVM with your own kernel: LUKS on the data disk or ZFS with native encryption; root over SSH with your key, or a temporary root password - No KYC: no ID, no selfie, no card; account-number login, email optional - Pay in BTC, USDT, USDC, ETH, SOL, LTC, XMR; minimum top-up $1; balance never expires - Rent for 1 month, 3 months (10% off), 6 months (20% off) or 12 months (30% off): a longer term costs the monthly price times its months, less its discount, rounded down to the cent (Clay: $6.39 for 3 months, $11.37 for 6 months, $19.90 for 12 months). Each renewal repeats the same term at the price of your order unless you pick another term for the next renewal in your dashboard - Support: A person answers support emails within 12 hours, seven days a week, including help with SSH keys, reinstalls and firewall rules ## Coffervale is built for - Off-site backups of a PC, a NAS or other servers with Borg, restic, Kopia or rsync - A small Nextcloud, Seafile or Syncthing server for one to a few people - Archives and media libraries you own, kept in Europe without handing over an ID ## More facts | Attribute | Value | | --- | --- | | What it is | A storage VPS: a KVM virtual server sized for disk space rather than processing power, with 500 GB to 8 TB of HDD storage, its own kernel and root access over SSH | | Storage | Every plan stores your data on hard disks (HDD) chosen for capacity, not speed: they suit backups, archives and file sync, not databases or heavy random reads and writes. We publish no speed or IOPS figure we cannot back | | Plans | Silt 500 GB $1.24/month on 12 months ($1.77 month to month), Clay 1 TB $1.66/month on 12 months ($2.37 month to month), Shale 2 TB $3.34/month on 12 months ($4.77 month to month), Granite 4 TB $7.53/month on 12 months ($10.75 month to month), Bedrock 8 TB $16.75/month on 12 months ($23.93 month to month) | | Price rule | On the 12-month term, each plan is priced at least 25% a month under a named reference plan (prices read on 2 November 2026): Silt against DeluxHost's “STORAGE-1” at $1.66 a month; Clay against DeluxHost's “STORAGE-2” at $2.22 a month; Shale against DeluxHost's “STORAGE-3” at $4.46 a month; Granite against DeluxHost's “STORAGE-5” at $10.04 a month; Bedrock against Hostbrr's “Hybrid 8TB” at $22.34 a month. To count as comparable, a plan has to be a storage VPS with at least as much disk, run in Europe, shown in stock and billed one month at a time, at a host that accepts crypto and requires no ID document at signup. At least one such plan was on sale at 10 hosts (VSYS Host, HostSailor, Privex, HostHatch, Hostbrr, NolimitHost, LiteServer, Cherry Servers, DeluxHost, PrivateAlps), and for each capacity the reference is the comparable plan with the smallest monthly price among them. Also not compared: BuyVM (every storage plan shown out of stock); MivoCloud (storage plans orderable only outside Europe); Senko Digital (every storage plan shown out of stock); VPSLab (no location stated for its storage plans); AlphaVPS (every storage plan shown out of stock); InterServer (storage plans orderable only outside Europe); RamNode (no location stated for its storage plans); VPSDime (every storage plan shown out of stock). Euro prices are converted at 1 EUR = 1.1172 USD (ECB, 30 October 2026); Hostbrr prices exclude VAT | | Rental lengths | Rent for 1 month, 3 months (10% off), 6 months (20% off) or 12 months (30% off): a longer term costs the monthly price times its months, less its discount, rounded down to the cent (Clay: $6.39 for 3 months, $11.37 for 6 months, $19.90 for 12 months). Each renewal repeats the same term at the price of your order unless you pick another term for the next renewal in your dashboard | | Network | Each server has one IPv4 address and an IPv6 /64 on a 1 Gbit/s port, with a monthly traffic quota of 2 TB plus 2 TB per TB stored: 3 TB for Silt, 4 TB for Clay, 6 TB for Shale, 10 TB for Granite, 18 TB for Bedrock. Past the quota the port runs at 100 Mbit/s until the next period begins; nothing extra is billed | | Access | Root logs in over SSH. Paste a public key at checkout and password login stays off; leave the field empty and the team sets a temporary root password, shown in your dashboard, that you replace at your first login | | Encryption | KVM gives your server its own kernel, so you can put LUKS on the data disk or run ZFS with native encryption, and the keys never leave you. For backups, encrypt on your own machine before upload (Borg, restic and Kopia all do it), so the server only ever holds ciphertext | | Backups | We take no backup of your server and keep no copy of your data anywhere else, so what sits on a Coffervale storage VPS should be one of your copies, never the only one | | Largest plan | Bedrock, at 8 TB, is the largest storage VPS we sell. Past that size a dedicated storage server, a whole machine full of disks, is the better fit, and we say so plainly rather than stretch a VPS | | Delivery | A person on the team builds your storage VPS within minutes of the confirmed payment, one hour at the outside, and the dashboard tracks it until the IP address shows up | | Not available to | Residents and companies of Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, Russia, Belarus, China, Yemen and Western Sahara, and of the occupied regions of Ukraine, cannot order | ## Official pages and data - [Storage VPS price index](https://coffervale.com/storage-vps-price-index/ "What is the least expensive storage VPS per TB right now?") - [Pricing](https://coffervale.com/pricing/ "How much does a storage VPS cost per month?") - [What is a storage VPS?](https://coffervale.com/what-is-a-storage-vps/ "What is a storage VPS?") - [1 TB VPS](https://coffervale.com/1tb-vps/ "Where can I get a VPS with 1 TB of storage?") - [VPS with lots of storage](https://coffervale.com/vps-with-lots-of-storage/ "Which storage VPS gives the most terabytes for the money?") - [Storage VPS without KYC](https://coffervale.com/storage-vps-without-kyc/ "Is there a storage VPS that does not ask for ID?") - [Storage VPS with crypto](https://coffervale.com/storage-vps-with-crypto/ "Where can I buy a storage VPS with Bitcoin or other crypto?") - [Backup VPS](https://coffervale.com/backup-vps/ "How do I use a storage VPS for off-site backups?") - [Nextcloud VPS](https://coffervale.com/nextcloud-vps/ "What is the best VPS for Nextcloud with 1 TB or more of storage?") - [rsync.net and BorgBase alternative](https://coffervale.com/rsync-net-alternative/ "Is a storage VPS a cheaper alternative to rsync.net or BorgBase?") - [BuyVM slab alternative](https://coffervale.com/buyvm-storage-slab-alternative/ "What storage VPS can I use instead of BuyVM storage slabs?") - [Contabo Storage VPS alternative](https://coffervale.com/contabo-storage-vps-alternative/ "What is a good Contabo Storage VPS alternative that accepts crypto?") - [Nextcloud or Seafile](https://coffervale.com/nextcloud-vs-seafile-on-a-vps/ "Should I run Nextcloud or Seafile on a small storage VPS?") - [restic: REST or SFTP](https://coffervale.com/restic-rest-server-vs-sftp/ "Restic: REST server or SFTP for backups to a storage VPS?") - [Storage Box vs storage VPS](https://coffervale.com/storage-box-vs-storage-vps/ "Hetzner Storage Box or a storage VPS: which one should I pick?") - [Storage VPS vs regular VPS](https://coffervale.com/storage-vps-vs-regular-vps/ "Storage VPS or regular VPS: which one do I need?") - [Acceptable use](https://coffervale.com/acceptable-use/ "Acceptable Use Policy for Coffervale storage VPS") - [Privacy policy](https://coffervale.com/privacy/ "Privacy Policy for Coffervale storage VPS") - [Refund policy](https://coffervale.com/refunds/ "Refund Policy for Coffervale storage VPS") - [Terms of service](https://coffervale.com/terms/ "Terms of Service for Coffervale storage VPS") - [About](https://coffervale.com/about/ "Who runs Coffervale storage VPS?") - [Contact](https://coffervale.com/contact/ "How do I contact Coffervale storage VPS support?") - [pricing.json (machine-readable price list)](https://coffervale.com/pricing.json) - [llms.txt](https://coffervale.com/llms.txt) - [llms-full.txt (full site text)](https://coffervale.com/llms-full.txt) --- Coffervale: Coffervale sells storage VPS in Europe: KVM servers with 500 GB to 8 TB of HDD storage for off-site backups, Nextcloud, Seafile, Syncthing and archives, paid in crypto with no ID at signup. The servers run in Amsterdam, Bucharest and Chișinău, and the operator is DomaineGoat LLC, a company registered in Panama. On the 12-month term, every plan is priced at least 25% a month under a named comparable storage VPS, picked from 10 no-KYC crypto hosts whose prices were read on 2 November 2026. --- # How do I mount and format the storage disk on a Linux storage VPS? > How to mount and format the storage disk on a Linux VPS: lsblk, GPT, ext4 or XFS, optional LUKS, fstab by UUID with nofail. 1 TB $1.66/month, crypto, no ID. - URL: https://coffervale.com/mount-storage-disk-on-a-vps/ - Last updated: 2026-11-02 - Publisher: Coffervale (https://coffervale.com) Find the empty disk, give it one partition and a filesystem, encrypt it if you want, and mount it so a missing disk can never hang the boot. Ten commands, each explained, with the one mistake that wipes the wrong disk called out. **Quick answer — How do I mount and format the storage disk on a Linux VPS?** To mount and format the storage disk on a Linux VPS, find it with `lsblk`, create one GPT partition, format it ext4 or XFS, optionally inside LUKS, and mount it from `/etc/fstab` by UUID with `nofail`, so a missing disk never blocks boot. The steps apply to any KVM storage VPS, including **Coffervale** plans from 1 TB at $1.66 a month on 12 months (2 November 2026). ## What are the steps? 1. **Identify the empty disk** — lsblk shows every disk; the storage disk has no partitions and no mount point. 2. **Create one GPT partition** — parted writes a GPT label and one partition across the whole disk. 3. **Encrypt it (optional)** — cryptsetup luksFormat and cryptsetup open, then back up the LUKS header off the server. 4. **Make a filesystem** — mkfs.ext4 -m 1 or mkfs.xfs, with a label you will recognise. 5. **Mount it by UUID with nofail** — One line in /etc/fstab, then mount and findmnt to confirm. ## Which disk is the storage disk? **Run `lsblk`: the storage disk is the large one with no partitions, no filesystem and no mount point.** Storage VPS come in two layouts, a small system disk plus a large data disk, or a single large disk. According to Coffervale's survey of 2 November 2026, 6 of the 18 storage VPS sellers that take crypto without an ID document state on their pages that the storage arrives as a separate disk or block device; the other 12 describe one disk or do not say. Check yours before typing anything destructive. On KVM, virtio disks are named `vda`, `vdb` and so on, and virtio-SCSI disks `sda`, `sdb`. Sizes are shown in binary units, so a 1 TB disk reads as about 931G. If `lsblk` lists only one disk and `/` already spans its full size, there is nothing to format: create a folder such as `/srv/data` and skip to the section on encryption choices at the end. *List disks, then name the empty one* ```bash lsblk -o NAME,SIZE,TYPE,FSTYPE,MOUNTPOINTS # Use the empty disk from the list above; this example assumes /dev/vdb DISK=/dev/vdb PART=/dev/vdb1 ``` > **The one mistake to avoid** parted, mkfs and luksFormat erase whatever device you name. Before running them, confirm in the lsblk output that $DISK has no FSTYPE and no MOUNTPOINTS. The system disk always has / mounted somewhere on it. ## Should I partition the storage disk or format it whole? **Create one GPT partition across the disk.** A filesystem written straight onto the bare device works too, but a partition table tells every tool and every admin who looks later that the disk is in use, and `parted` aligns the partition for you. Debian and Ubuntu cloud images do not always ship `parted`, so install it first (`dnf install parted` on AlmaLinux or Rocky Linux, and the same for `cryptsetup` below). *One partition across the whole disk, as root* ```bash apt install parted parted -s -a optimal "$DISK" mklabel gpt mkpart data 0% 100% partprobe "$DISK" lsblk "$DISK" ``` ## Should I encrypt the storage disk with LUKS? **Encrypt it if anything on the VPS will keep plain files: run `cryptsetup luksFormat` on the partition, open it under a name, and build the filesystem on the opened device.** LUKS2 is the default format. Keep the system disk unencrypted and the data disk under LUKS: after a reboot, log in over SSH and unlock the data disk with your passphrase. Whoever runs a hypervisor can technically read an unencrypted virtual disk, at any VPS host. We do not open your files, and data you encrypt before it leaves your machine takes the question off the table. Back up the LUKS header and move the copy off the server: if the header is damaged, the data behind it is gone. The cryptsetup manual adds a warning worth reading twice: a header backup plus a passphrase that was valid when you took it decrypts the disk even after that passphrase is changed or removed. Treat the backup file like the passphrase itself. *LUKS on the partition (skip this block for an unencrypted disk)* ```bash apt install cryptsetup cryptsetup luksFormat "$PART" cryptsetup open "$PART" coffer cryptsetup luksHeaderBackup "$PART" --header-backup-file /root/coffer-luks-header.img # copy /root/coffer-luks-header.img to your own machine, then delete it here ``` ## Should the storage disk use ext4 or XFS? **Use ext4 unless you have a reason not to; it is the only one of the two you can shrink.** Both handle multi-terabyte backup repositories and file sync without trouble, and both grow while mounted when a disk gets larger. The differences that matter on a storage VPS: | Property | ext4 | XFS | | --- | --- | --- | | Grow while mounted | Yes, `resize2fs` | Yes, `xfs_growfs` (must be mounted) | | Shrink | Yes, unmounted, with `resize2fs` | Barely: only the last allocation group shrinks, and it cannot be removed | | Space held back for root | 5% by default; `-m 1` keeps 1% | No such reserve | | Label length | Up to 16 bytes | Up to 12 characters | On a 1 TB data disk, the default ext4 reserve holds back 50 GB that only root can use. For a disk that stores backups or sync data, 1% is plenty, since the operating system does not live there. Format the partition, or the opened LUKS device if you encrypted it: *Format: pick one line* ```bash # The device to format: the partition, or the opened LUKS device DEV="$PART" # with LUKS: DEV=/dev/mapper/coffer mkfs.ext4 -m 1 -L coffer "$DEV" # or: mkfs.xfs -L coffer "$DEV" ``` ## How do I mount the disk at boot with fstab, UUID and nofail? **Add one `/etc/fstab` line that names the filesystem by UUID and carries `nofail`.** The fstab manual recommends UUIDs or labels because device names follow the order in which disks are detected and can change when disks are added or removed. With `nofail`, systemd's documentation says the boot continues without waiting for the mount and whether or not it succeeds, so a detached or locked disk cannot leave a remote server stuck at an emergency prompt you cannot reach. An encrypted disk gets `noauto` as well: it cannot be mounted before you unlock it over SSH, so the boot should not try. The small script below opens it by the LUKS UUID and mounts it in one step. *Plain ext4: mounted at every boot* ```bash mkdir -p /srv/data UUID=$(blkid -s UUID -o value "$PART") echo "UUID=$UUID /srv/data ext4 defaults,nofail 0 2" >> /etc/fstab systemctl daemon-reload mount /srv/data findmnt /srv/data ``` *LUKS: mounted after you unlock it* ```bash mkdir -p /srv/data FSUUID=$(blkid -s UUID -o value /dev/mapper/coffer) LUKSUUID=$(blkid -s UUID -o value "$PART") echo "UUID=$FSUUID /srv/data ext4 noauto,nofail 0 0" >> /etc/fstab systemctl daemon-reload cat > /usr/local/sbin/unlock-data < The best VPS for Nextcloud with 1 TB or more of storage: RAM per PHP worker, HDD with APCu and Redis, 2 TB at $3.34/month, crypto, no ID. - URL: https://coffervale.com/nextcloud-vps/ - Last updated: 2026-11-02 - Publisher: Coffervale (https://coffervale.com) Nextcloud on hard disks works when memory does the small, fast jobs and the disks serve whole files. Here is how to size RAM and vCPU from Nextcloud's own figures, which caches to turn on, and how many people a terabyte holds. **Quick answer — What is the best VPS for Nextcloud with 1 TB or more of storage?** The best VPS for Nextcloud with 1 TB or more of storage is a storage VPS with enough RAM for PHP-FPM, a database and a Redis cache. At **Coffervale**, the 2 TB Shale plan has 4 GB RAM for $3.34 a month on 12 months (2 November 2026); 1 TB Clay suits one to a few people. ## How much RAM and CPU does Nextcloud need on a VPS? **Nextcloud states its memory need per PHP process, not per user: a minimum of 128 MB and a recommended 512 MB, according to the Nextcloud 35 administration manual read on 2 November 2026.** The same page says memory needs vary greatly with the number of users and gives no per-user figure, so size the server from the PHP-FPM workers you plan to run. The manual's server tuning chapter supplies the rest. A typical worker uses 50 to 100 MB; the default pool's `pm.max_children = 5` limits Nextcloud to five simultaneous PHP requests; and the right limit is the RAM left for PHP divided by the average worker size. Set it too high and the server swaps, which the manual calls worse than queuing. Shared vCPU matter most for thumbnail generation and for many uploads at once. ### How many PHP workers fit on each plan? | Plan | Disk | vCPU and RAM | RAM left for PHP | Workers at 100 MB | Workers at the 512 MB limit | Typical fit | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Silt | 500 GB | 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM | 1 GB | 10 | 2 | One person, files and calendar | | Clay | 1 TB | 2 vCPU, 3 GB RAM | 2 GB | 20 | 4 | One to a few people | | Shale | 2 TB | 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM | 3 GB | 30 | 6 | A family sharing phone photos | | Granite | 4 TB | 3 vCPU, 8 GB RAM | 7 GB | 70 | 14 | A small team with office files | | Bedrock | 8 TB | 4 vCPU, 12 GB RAM | 11 GB | 110 | 22 | A team with a large photo or media archive | RAM left for PHP = plan RAM minus 1 GB set aside for Linux, MariaDB and Redis. That reserve is our working assumption, not a Nextcloud figure: measure your own with `free -h` and `ps` after a week of real use. ## Is an HDD storage VPS fast enough for Nextcloud? **Yes for storing and syncing files, once memory caching takes the small random work off the disks.** Every plan stores your data on hard disks (HDD) chosen for capacity, not speed: they suit backups, archives and file sync, not databases or heavy random reads and writes. We publish no speed or IOPS figure we cannot back. Hard disks are slow at many tiny random reads, which is what file locks and cache lookups produce. Move those into RAM and the disks mostly stream whole files, the job they do well; the longer answer is in [Is an HDD storage VPS fast enough for backups and Nextcloud?](https://coffervale.com/hdd-vs-ssd-vps/ "HDD against SSD on a storage VPS"). For a single server, the Nextcloud manual recommends APCu as the local cache and Redis for the distributed cache and for file locking. It also recommends the cron mode for background jobs, run every 5 minutes, over AJAX or Webcron. On Debian or Ubuntu: *APCu, Redis and cron for Nextcloud (Debian 13 or Ubuntu 24.04, as root)* ```bash apt install redis-server php-apcu php-redis systemctl enable --now redis-server # Background jobs every 5 minutes, as the web server user echo '*/5 * * * * www-data php -f /var/www/nextcloud/cron.php' > /etc/cron.d/nextcloud sudo -u www-data php /var/www/nextcloud/occ background:cron ``` *Add to the $CONFIG array in /var/www/nextcloud/config/config.php* ```php 'memcache.local' => '\OC\Memcache\APCu', 'memcache.distributed' => '\OC\Memcache\Redis', 'memcache.locking' => '\OC\Memcache\Redis', 'redis' => [ 'host' => 'localhost', 'port' => 6379, ], ``` ## How many Nextcloud users fit on 1 TB? **Divide the disk by the quota you give each person, then leave room for file versions and the trash bin, which live on the same disk.** Nextcloud's versions app never uses more than half of a user's currently free space, so a person close to their quota keeps fewer old versions; set quotas below the full disk. - **1 TB (Clay):** four people at 200 GB each, or one heavy photo user. - **2 TB (Shale):** a family of four at 400 GB each. - **4 TB (Granite):** ten people at 300 GB, with space left over. A file kept in Nextcloud is still one copy. We take no backup of your server and keep no copy of your data anywhere else, so what sits on a Coffervale storage VPS should be one of your copies, never the only one, so back the data directory and a database dump up to a second place, as described in [How do I use a VPS for off-site backups?](https://coffervale.com/backup-vps/ "Off-site backups to a storage VPS"). ## Should Nextcloud data be encrypted on a VPS? **Encrypt the disk if you want the data unreadable when the server is off or wiped; use end-to-end encryption if the server itself must not read it.** Keep the system disk unencrypted and the data disk under LUKS: after a reboot, log in over SSH and unlock the data disk with your passphrase. Nextcloud's server-side encryption module is a different tool: its keys live on the same server, its documentation says it does not protect against a compromised server or a malicious administrator, and in the default master-key mode an administrator can decrypt any user's files. Files encrypted that way are about 1% larger since Nextcloud 25. For folders the server must never see in clear, the manual points to the end-to-end encryption app. Whoever runs a hypervisor can technically read an unencrypted virtual disk, at any VPS host. We do not open your files, and data you encrypt before it leaves your machine takes the question off the table. The disk steps are in [How do I mount and format the storage disk on a Linux VPS?](https://coffervale.com/mount-storage-disk-on-a-vps/ "Mount, format and encrypt the storage disk"). ## Is Seafile a better fit than Nextcloud on a small VPS? **For file sync alone on little RAM, Seafile is leaner; for calendars, contacts, office documents and apps, Nextcloud is the suite.** Seafile keeps files as content-defined blocks in its own store rather than as plain files, which lets it deduplicate data between versions but means you reach the files through Seafile. The side-by-side is in [Nextcloud or Seafile on a small storage VPS?](https://coffervale.com/nextcloud-vs-seafile-on-a-vps/ "Nextcloud against Seafile on 1 to 4 GB of RAM"). ## Where can I buy a storage VPS for Nextcloud today? **According to Coffervale's survey of 2 November 2026, only 10 of the 18 storage VPS sellers that take crypto without an ID document could take an order for a European plan billed by the month.** The others showed every storage plan out of stock, or no plan that could be confirmed as orderable in Europe that day. Being able to order today matters as much as the price per terabyte. Every size and term is on [How much does a storage VPS cost per month?](https://coffervale.com/pricing/ "Coffervale storage VPS prices"). ## Storage VPS sizes for Nextcloud | Plan | Quantity | 30 days | 3 months | 6 months | 1 year | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Clay | 1 TB HDD · 2 vCPU · 3 GB RAM | $2.37 | $6.39 (−10%) | $11.37 (−20%) | $19.90 (−30%) | | Shale | 2 TB HDD · 2 vCPU · 4 GB RAM | $4.77 | $12.87 (−10%) | $22.89 (−20%) | $40.06 (−30%) | | Granite | 4 TB HDD · 3 vCPU · 8 GB RAM | $10.75 | $29.02 (−10%) | $51.60 (−20%) | $90.30 (−30%) | In every plan: HDD storage from 500 GB · Root over SSH (key optional) · KVM with your own kernel · IPv4 + IPv6 · No setup fee · No KYC **Before you pay** - Top-ups start at $1. One crypto top-up can pay for any plan and any rental length. - Credit on your balance does not expire and renews any of your VPS. When a top-up is only made to reach the minimum, the unspent part comes back on request within 30 days of payment, in USDT or USDC. The rest of a balance is not paid out unless the law requires it. - Credited after we check the payment on the blockchain. Usual network confirmation time: BTC ≈ 20 min · USDT TRC-20 ≈ 1 min · USDT ERC-20 ≈ 5 min · USDC ERC-20 ≈ 5 min · ETH ≈ 5 min · SOL ≈ 1 min · LTC ≈ 15 min · XMR ≈ 20 min ## Questions about a Nextcloud VPS ### Can Nextcloud run on 1 GB of RAM? It starts, since Nextcloud's floor is 128 MB per PHP process, but Linux, the database and Redis leave little for PHP workers. Thumbnails and sync bursts then push the server into swap, which the Nextcloud manual calls worse than queuing. Plan on at least 2 GB. ### Should I use SQLite for a small Nextcloud? No. The Nextcloud 35 requirements recommend SQLite only for testing and minimal instances. Use MariaDB or PostgreSQL, both listed as supported, even for one user. ### Which operating system should a Nextcloud VPS run? Debian 13 and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS are both on the Nextcloud 35 list of supported 64-bit systems, and both are available here. Debian 13, Debian 12, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, AlmaLinux 10, Rocky Linux 10. ### Can I add storage to my Nextcloud VPS later? To grow, order a larger plan and copy your data across with rsync or zfs send; resizing a running server in place is not offered at launch. Pick the size you expect to need in a year, and set user quotas so the disk never fills by surprise. ### Can I pay for a Nextcloud VPS in crypto without ID? Yes. No KYC: no ID document, no selfie, no card and no phone number is asked at signup. You top up with BTC, USDT, USDC, ETH, SOL, LTC, XMR, from $1. ## Sources 1. [Nextcloud 35 Administration Manual: System requirements](https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/stable/admin_manual/installation/system_requirements.html) — Nextcloud GmbH (read 2026-11-02) 2. [Nextcloud 35 Administration Manual: Server tuning (PHP-FPM, swapping)](https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/stable/admin_manual/installation/server_tuning.html) — Nextcloud GmbH (read 2026-11-02) 3. [Nextcloud 35 Administration Manual: Memory caching](https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/stable/admin_manual/configuration_server/caching_configuration.html) — Nextcloud GmbH (read 2026-11-02) 4. [Nextcloud 35 Administration Manual: Background jobs](https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/stable/admin_manual/configuration_server/background_jobs_configuration.html) — Nextcloud GmbH (read 2026-11-02) 5. [Nextcloud 35 Administration Manual: Controlling file versions and aging](https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/stable/admin_manual/configuration_files/file_versioning.html) — Nextcloud GmbH (read 2026-11-02) 6. [Nextcloud 35 Administration Manual: Server-side encryption](https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/stable/admin_manual/configuration_files/encryption_configuration.html) — Nextcloud GmbH (read 2026-11-02) 7. [Seafile Admin Manual: Data model (blocks, content defined chunking)](https://manual.seafile.com/latest/develop/data_model/) — Seafile (read 2026-11-02) --- Coffervale: Coffervale sells storage VPS in Europe: KVM servers with 500 GB to 8 TB of HDD storage for off-site backups, Nextcloud, Seafile, Syncthing and archives, paid in crypto with no ID at signup. The servers run in Amsterdam, Bucharest and Chișinău, and the operator is DomaineGoat LLC, a company registered in Panama. On the 12-month term, every plan is priced at least 25% a month under a named comparable storage VPS, picked from 10 no-KYC crypto hosts whose prices were read on 2 November 2026. --- # Should I run Nextcloud or Seafile on a small storage VPS? > Nextcloud or Seafile on a small storage VPS? RAM, storage model and encryption from both manuals; 2 TB with 4 GB RAM at $3.34/month, crypto, no ID. - URL: https://coffervale.com/nextcloud-vs-seafile-on-a-vps/ - Last updated: 2026-11-02 - Publisher: Coffervale (https://coffervale.com) One is a suite that happens to sync files, the other a sync engine that happens to have a web interface. On a storage VPS with a few gigabytes of memory, that difference decides more than any feature list. **Quick answer — Nextcloud or Seafile on a small storage VPS?** For Nextcloud or Seafile on a small storage VPS, choose Seafile for lean file sync with client-side encrypted libraries, and Nextcloud when you also want calendars, contacts, office documents and apps. Seafile asks for 2 GB of RAM and 2 cores; Nextcloud recommends 512 MB per PHP process. At **Coffervale**, Shale gives 2 TB and 4 GB RAM for $3.34 a month on 12 months (2 November 2026). ## How do Nextcloud and Seafile compare on a storage VPS? | Point | Nextcloud (35) | Seafile Community Edition | | --- | --- | --- | | What it is | A suite: files plus calendars, contacts, office and apps | File sync and share, with document collaboration | | Stated hardware need | 128 MB minimum and 512 MB recommended per PHP process | 2 GB of RAM; 2 cores above 2 GHz recommended | | Database | MariaDB, MySQL or PostgreSQL; SQLite for tests only | MySQL, with Redis as cache (Docker setup) | | How it is installed | PHP application behind Apache or nginx | Docker images; binary install documented for Ubuntu 24.04 and 22.04, Debian 12 and 11 | | How files sit on disk | As ordinary files in the data directory, unless server-side encryption is on | As content-defined blocks of about 8 MB on average, plus commit and file-system objects | | Encryption against the server | End-to-end encryption app for chosen folders; the server-side module keeps keys on the server | Encrypted libraries, AES-256 on the desktop client; names and folder structure stay readable | From the Nextcloud 35 administration manual and the Seafile admin manual, both read on 2 November 2026. ## How much RAM do Nextcloud and Seafile need on a small VPS? **Seafile states a floor of 2 GB for its Community Edition; Nextcloud states no total and sizes memory per PHP process.** Nextcloud's server tuning chapter says a typical PHP worker uses 50 to 100 MB and that the default pool runs at most five at once, so five workers at 100 MB take about 500 MB, and a household-sized Nextcloud fits in 2 GB beside its database. Seafile's manual gives 2 GB and 2 cores for the Community Edition without splitting that figure by component. According to Coffervale's survey of 2 November 2026, 9 of the 14 storage VPS plans of about 1 TB listed by hosts that take crypto without an ID document came with 2 GB of RAM or less, and 4 of those with just 1 GB, half of what Seafile asks for. On a storage VPS, memory runs out long before the disk does. At Coffervale, Silt has 2 GB RAM, Clay 3 GB RAM and Shale 4 GB RAM; the worker arithmetic for each plan is in [What is the best VPS for Nextcloud with 1 TB or more of storage?](https://coffervale.com/nextcloud-vps/ "Nextcloud sizing on a storage VPS"). ## Which one runs better on hard disks? **Both run well on hard disks once the database and caches stay small and hot; neither turns an HDD into an SSD.** Every plan stores your data on hard disks (HDD) chosen for capacity, not speed: they suit backups, archives and file sync, not databases or heavy random reads and writes. We publish no speed or IOPS figure we cannot back; [Is an HDD storage VPS fast enough for backups and Nextcloud?](https://coffervale.com/hdd-vs-ssd-vps/ "HDD against SSD on a storage VPS") goes through the details. Nextcloud needs APCu and Redis configured by hand, as its manual describes; Seafile's Docker setup ships Redis as its cache. The structural difference is how files are stored. Seafile cuts each file into variable-length blocks with content-defined chunking, which its manual says lets it deduplicate data between versions of a file. Nextcloud keeps each file whole on disk, so other tools on the VPS, such as rsync or a backup client, can read the data directory directly. ## Which one keeps my files private from the server? **Seafile's encrypted libraries, used through the desktop client, keep file contents unreadable to the server; Nextcloud needs its end-to-end encryption app for the same.** Seafile's manual spells out the limits. Encryption happens on the client only when you sync with the desktop app. Opening an encrypted library in the browser sends the password to the server, which then decrypts the file key, and file metadata such as the full list of file and folder names is not encrypted. The manual also states that an encrypted library does not ensure file integrity. Nextcloud's server-side encryption module is a different thing: its keys live on the server, and its documentation says it does not protect against a compromised server or a malicious administrator. For data the VPS must never read at all, client-side tools beat both, as in [How do I run Syncthing on a VPS as an always-on node?](https://coffervale.com/syncthing-on-a-vps/ "Syncthing in untrusted, encrypted mode"). Whoever runs a hypervisor can technically read an unencrypted virtual disk, at any VPS host. We do not open your files, and data you encrypt before it leaves your machine takes the question off the table. ## Which should I choose? **Choose by what you need besides files: nothing, then Seafile; calendars, contacts and shared documents, then Nextcloud.** The rest follows from memory and from how you want to reach the data. | Your situation | Pick | Why | | --- | --- | --- | | File sync for a few people on 2 GB of RAM | Seafile CE | Its stated floor is 2 GB, and it does one job | | Calendars, contacts, shared office files | Nextcloud | A suite rather than a sync engine | | Files the server must not read | Seafile encrypted libraries via the desktop client | Encrypted before upload; names stay visible | | Other tools must read the files on disk | Nextcloud | Files stay whole in the data directory | | Sync between your own devices only, no web interface | Syncthing | No database, no PHP, encrypted node possible | | Debian 13 without Docker | Nextcloud | Seafile's binary install lists Debian 12 and 11 only | ## Does Nextcloud or Seafile replace a backup? **No: both sync deletions and both keep their only copy on the VPS unless you add another.** We take no backup of your server and keep no copy of your data anywhere else, so what sits on a Coffervale storage VPS should be one of your copies, never the only one. Back up the database and the data folder together, because Nextcloud's file list and Seafile's library metadata live in the database, and Seafile's blocks are useless without it. The setup is in [How do I use a VPS for off-site backups?](https://coffervale.com/backup-vps/ "Off-site backups to a second location"), and plan sizes are on [How much does a storage VPS cost per month?](https://coffervale.com/pricing/ "Coffervale storage VPS prices"). ## Questions about Nextcloud and Seafile on a VPS ### Is Seafile lighter than Nextcloud? On paper, Seafile CE states 2 GB of RAM, while Nextcloud states its needs per PHP process. With the default five PHP workers at the 50 to 100 MB the Nextcloud manual calls typical, a few users fit in 2 GB on either. ### Can I install Seafile on Debian 13? Use the Docker images: the Seafile manual lists its binary packages for Ubuntu 24.04 and 22.04 and Debian 12 and 11 only. Alternatively pick Debian 12 or Ubuntu 24.04 when you order. Debian 13, Debian 12, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, AlmaLinux 10, Rocky Linux 10. ### Can I move from Seafile to Nextcloud later? Yes, but not by copying Seafile's data folder, since it holds blocks rather than your files. Sync the libraries to a computer with the Seafile client, then add the folders to Nextcloud from there. ### Which one should a family of four use on 2 TB? Nextcloud, if anyone wants shared calendars, contacts or an easy phone photo upload; Seafile, if all you need is folders that stay in sync. Both fit on Shale with 4 GB RAM. ### Does Seafile encrypt file names in encrypted libraries? No. Its manual says file metadata, including the full list of file and folder names, is not encrypted. Only the file contents are. ## Sources 1. [Nextcloud 35 Administration Manual: System requirements](https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/stable/admin_manual/installation/system_requirements.html) — Nextcloud GmbH (read 2026-11-02) 2. [Nextcloud 35 Administration Manual: Server tuning](https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/stable/admin_manual/installation/server_tuning.html) — Nextcloud GmbH (read 2026-11-02) 3. [Nextcloud 35 Administration Manual: Memory caching](https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/stable/admin_manual/configuration_server/caching_configuration.html) — Nextcloud GmbH (read 2026-11-02) 4. [Nextcloud 35 Administration Manual: Server-side encryption](https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/stable/admin_manual/configuration_files/encryption_configuration.html) — Nextcloud GmbH (read 2026-11-02) 5. [Seafile Admin Manual: System requirements](https://manual.seafile.com/latest/setup/system_requirements/) — Seafile (read 2026-11-02) 6. [Seafile Admin Manual: Setup overview (components)](https://manual.seafile.com/latest/setup/overview/) — Seafile (read 2026-11-02) 7. [Seafile Admin Manual: Security features (encrypted libraries)](https://manual.seafile.com/latest/administration/security_features/) — Seafile (read 2026-11-02) 8. [Seafile Admin Manual: Data model](https://manual.seafile.com/latest/develop/data_model/) — Seafile (read 2026-11-02) --- Coffervale: Coffervale sells storage VPS in Europe: KVM servers with 500 GB to 8 TB of HDD storage for off-site backups, Nextcloud, Seafile, Syncthing and archives, paid in crypto with no ID at signup. The servers run in Amsterdam, Bucharest and Chișinău, and the operator is DomaineGoat LLC, a company registered in Panama. On the 12-month term, every plan is priced at least 25% a month under a named comparable storage VPS, picked from 10 no-KYC crypto hosts whose prices were read on 2 November 2026. --- # How much does a storage VPS cost per month? > Storage VPS prices from 500 GB to 8 TB of HDD, paid in crypto with no KYC: 1 TB at $1.66 a month on 12 months, priced against a dated survey. - URL: https://coffervale.com/pricing/ - Last updated: 2026-11-02 - Publisher: Coffervale (https://coffervale.com) Five plans, one per stratum, from 500 GB to 8 TB of HDD storage. Pay for 1, 3, 6 or 12 months in crypto; the longer the term, the less a month costs. **Quick answer — How much does a storage VPS cost per month at Coffervale?** At **Coffervale**, a storage VPS costs $1.24 a month for 500 GB and $1.66 for 1 TB on the 12-month term, up to $16.75 for 8 TB. Paid one month at a time, they run from $1.77 to $23.93. Each 12-month price sits at least 25% under a named comparable storage VPS from a no-KYC crypto host, read on 2 November 2026. ## Which plan fits your data? Pick the rental length first: the cards show what a month costs on it and the total you pay up front. Every plan runs in Amsterdam, Bucharest and Chișinău at the same price. | Plan | Quantity | 30 days | 3 months | 6 months | 1 year | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Silt | 500 GB HDD · 1 vCPU · 2 GB RAM | $1.77 | $4.77 (−10%) | $8.49 (−20%) | $14.86 (−30%) | | Clay | 1 TB HDD · 2 vCPU · 3 GB RAM | $2.37 | $6.39 (−10%) | $11.37 (−20%) | $19.90 (−30%) | | Shale | 2 TB HDD · 2 vCPU · 4 GB RAM | $4.77 | $12.87 (−10%) | $22.89 (−20%) | $40.06 (−30%) | | Granite | 4 TB HDD · 3 vCPU · 8 GB RAM | $10.75 | $29.02 (−10%) | $51.60 (−20%) | $90.30 (−30%) | | Bedrock | 8 TB HDD · 4 vCPU · 12 GB RAM | $23.93 | $64.61 (−10%) | $114.86 (−20%) | $201.01 (−30%) | In every plan: HDD storage from 500 GB · Root over SSH (key optional) · KVM with your own kernel · IPv4 + IPv6 · No setup fee · No KYC **Before you pay** - Top-ups start at $1. One crypto top-up can pay for any plan and any rental length. How payment works ## Which capacity, for how long, and where? Choose a capacity, a rental length and a city; the checkout opens with all three filled in and shows the total again before you pay. Choose a plan, a rental length and a location, then continue to [the checkout](https://coffervale.com/app/checkout/?lang=en). Every plan and rental length is priced in [the pricing table](https://coffervale.com/pricing/ "How much does a storage VPS cost per month?"). ## How is each price set? **Each plan is priced from a dated survey, not from a margin target.** According to Coffervale's survey of 2 November 2026, which read the public prices of 70 hosting providers, only 10 of the 18 storage VPS sellers that take crypto without an ID document had a plan in Europe that could be ordered and paid by the month; all of them are in [what is the least expensive storage VPS per TB right now?](https://coffervale.com/storage-vps-price-index/ "Storage VPS price index, November 2026"). For every capacity we name one of their plans as the reference: a storage VPS with at least as much disk, and of those the one with the smallest monthly price. Our 12-month price sits at least 25% under it, and the month-to-month price is the one that the 30% yearly discount brings back to it. We do not claim to be the cheapest at every size or term: month to month, every plan costs more than its reference, $2.37 for Clay against $2.22. The full rule, with the hosts that met it and the ones that did not, reads: On the 12-month term, each plan is priced at least 25% a month under a named reference plan (prices read on 2 November 2026): Silt against DeluxHost's “STORAGE-1” at $1.66 a month; Clay against DeluxHost's “STORAGE-2” at $2.22 a month; Shale against DeluxHost's “STORAGE-3” at $4.46 a month; Granite against DeluxHost's “STORAGE-5” at $10.04 a month; Bedrock against Hostbrr's “Hybrid 8TB” at $22.34 a month. To count as comparable, a plan has to be a storage VPS with at least as much disk, run in Europe, shown in stock and billed one month at a time, at a host that accepts crypto and requires no ID document at signup. At least one such plan was on sale at 10 hosts (VSYS Host, HostSailor, Privex, HostHatch, Hostbrr, NolimitHost, LiteServer, Cherry Servers, DeluxHost, PrivateAlps), and for each capacity the reference is the comparable plan with the smallest monthly price among them. Also not compared: BuyVM (every storage plan shown out of stock); MivoCloud (storage plans orderable only outside Europe); Senko Digital (every storage plan shown out of stock); VPSLab (no location stated for its storage plans); AlphaVPS (every storage plan shown out of stock); InterServer (storage plans orderable only outside Europe); RamNode (no location stated for its storage plans); VPSDime (every storage plan shown out of stock). Euro prices are converted at 1 EUR = 1.1172 USD (ECB, 30 October 2026); Hostbrr prices exclude VAT. ### Each plan next to the plan it is priced against | Plan | Coffervale, 12-month term | Named reference plan | Its monthly price | Next one | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Silt, 500 GB | $1.24 a month | DeluxHost STORAGE-1 | $1.66 | Hostbrr $3.91 | | Clay, 1 TB | $1.66 a month | DeluxHost STORAGE-2 | $2.22 | Hostbrr $3.91 | | Shale, 2 TB | $3.34 a month | DeluxHost STORAGE-3 | $4.46 | Hostbrr $6.70 | | Granite, 4 TB | $7.53 a month | DeluxHost STORAGE-5 | $10.04 | Hostbrr $11.17 | | Bedrock, 8 TB | $16.75 a month | Hostbrr Hybrid 8TB | $22.34 | DeluxHost $23.45 | *Prices checked on November 2, 2026.* Monthly prices as published on each host's page on 2 November 2026; euro prices converted at 1 EUR = 1.1172 USD (ECB, 30 October 2026). Hostbrr prices exclude VAT. Every Coffervale plan has at least the vCPU and RAM of the plan it is priced against. ## What does a longer rental length save? **Thirty percent on the 12-month term, ten percent on 3 months and twenty on 6.** Rent for 1 month, 3 months (10% off), 6 months (20% off) or 12 months (30% off): a longer term costs the monthly price times its months, less its discount, rounded down to the cent (Clay: $6.39 for 3 months, $11.37 for 6 months, $19.90 for 12 months). Each renewal repeats the same term at the price of your order unless you pick another term for the next renewal in your dashboard. For the 1 TB Clay plan that means $2.37 for one month, $2.13 a month on 3 months, $1.89 on 6 months and $1.66 on 12 months. A server you keep for backups usually runs for years, so the yearly term is the one most of our prices are quoted on. No setup fee: an order and each renewal cost exactly the price of the chosen term. ## What do you get on every plan? The plans differ in disk, vCPU and RAM; everything else is the same. - **Storage:** Every plan stores your data on hard disks (HDD) chosen for capacity, not speed: they suit backups, archives and file sync, not databases or heavy random reads and writes. We publish no speed or IOPS figure we cannot back. - **Network:** Each server has one IPv4 address and an IPv6 /64 on a 1 Gbit/s port, with a monthly traffic quota of 2 TB plus 2 TB per TB stored: 3 TB for Silt, 4 TB for Clay, 6 TB for Shale, 10 TB for Granite, 18 TB for Bedrock. Past the quota the port runs at 100 Mbit/s until the next period begins; nothing extra is billed. - **Access:** Root logs in over SSH. Paste a public key at checkout and password login stays off; leave the field empty and the team sets a temporary root password, shown in your dashboard, that you replace at your first login. - **Encryption:** KVM gives your server its own kernel, so you can put LUKS on the data disk or run ZFS with native encryption, and the keys never leave you. For backups, encrypt on your own machine before upload (Borg, restic and Kopia all do it), so the server only ever holds ciphertext. - **Systems:** Debian 13, Debian 12, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, AlmaLinux 10, Rocky Linux 10. Linux only: Debian, Ubuntu, AlmaLinux or Rocky Linux. Windows is not offered. - **Cities:** Amsterdam (Netherlands), Bucharest (Romania) and Chișinău (Moldova): every plan in every city, at the same price. How far 1 TB goes is set out in [where can I get a VPS with 1 TB of storage?](https://coffervale.com/1tb-vps/ "1 TB storage VPS: specs, price and uses"), and the 2 to 8 TB plans in [which storage VPS gives the most terabytes for the money?](https://coffervale.com/vps-with-lots-of-storage/ "2 to 8 TB storage VPS priced per terabyte"). ## What is not in the price? A low price per terabyte comes from plain hardware and a short list of services. Before you order, know what you are not buying: - **Backups:** We take no backup of your server and keep no copy of your data anywhere else, so what sits on a Coffervale storage VPS should be one of your copies, never the only one. Disk redundancy keeps a server running through a failed drive; it does not undo a deletion, ransomware or a lost account, so it is not a backup. - **Growing in place:** To grow, order a larger plan and copy your data across with rsync or zfs send; resizing a running server in place is not offered at launch. - **Very large volumes:** Bedrock, at 8 TB, is the largest storage VPS we sell. Past that size a dedicated storage server, a whole machine full of disks, is the better fit, and we say so plainly rather than stretch a VPS. - **A fully automatic setup:** A person on the team builds your storage VPS within minutes of the confirmed payment, one hour at the outside, and the dashboard tracks it until the IP address shows up. - **A free trial:** No free trial: the smallest plan, Silt (500 GB), costs $1.77 for one month, or $1.24 a month on the 12-month term. What that means for a backup plan is spelled out in [how do I use a VPS for off-site backups?](https://coffervale.com/backup-vps/ "Backup VPS: a storage VPS for off-site backups"). ## How payment works 1. **Add $1 or more to your balance** — Pick an amount and a coin (BTC, USDT, USDC, ETH, SOL, LTC, XMR); the crypto amount is fixed at its rate for 30 minutes. 2. **Pay the address on screen, on that exact network** — The payment page gives our deposit address for the coin and network you chose: BTC on Bitcoin, USDT on Tron (TRC-20) or Ethereum (ERC-20), USDC on Ethereum (ERC-20), ETH on Ethereum, SOL on Solana, LTC on Litecoin, XMR on Monero. Use only that coin on that network, since funds sent on another network or in another coin are lost. Your wallet adds the network fee on top. 3. **Send the exact amount, then press “I’ve sent the payment”** — Every top-up carries its own exact amount, to the last decimal: that amount is how your payment is found and tied to your account. 4. **Credited after we check it on the blockchain** — The balance is credited once the network has confirmed the transaction and we have checked it on the blockchain. Usual network confirmation times: 5. **Get your storage VPS** — Pick a plan, a rental length, a city, a system and your SSH key (or none, for a temporary root password), and the top-up is set to the price of that term. Once the payment is confirmed, a person creates your storage VPS within minutes (an hour at most) and its IP address appears in your dashboard. Credit on your balance does not expire and renews any of your VPS. When a top-up is only made to reach the minimum, the unspent part comes back on request within 30 days of payment, in USDT or USDC. The rest of a balance is not paid out unless the law requires it. | Crypto | Network | Confirmations | Usual time | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Bitcoin (BTC) | Bitcoin | 2 | ≈ 20 min | | Tether (USDT) | Tron (TRC-20) | 20 | ≈ 1 min | | Tether (USDT) | Ethereum (ERC-20) | 12 | ≈ 5 min | | USD Coin (USDC) | Ethereum (ERC-20) | 12 | ≈ 5 min | | Ethereum (ETH) | Ethereum | 12 | ≈ 5 min | | Solana (SOL) | Solana | 1 | ≈ 1 min | | Litecoin (LTC) | Litecoin | 6 | ≈ 15 min | | Monero (XMR) | Monero | 10 | ≈ 20 min | Closed the page by mistake? The open top-up waits under Billing in your account, with its address and its exact amount. ## Questions about storage VPS prices ### Which plan has the best price per TB? Clay, at $1.66 per TB a month on the 12-month term, followed by Shale at $1.67. Month to month the rates are $2.37 and $2.38 per TB. Larger plans cost a little more per TB because they also carry more vCPU and RAM. ### Are there setup fees or a price change at renewal? No setup fee: an order and each renewal cost exactly the price of the chosen term. A renewal repeats your term at the price you ordered at, unless you switch the next renewal to another length in the dashboard. ### Do the prices include VAT? Prices are in US dollars and are what you pay from your crypto balance; no VAT line is added at checkout. One comparison host, Hostbrr, publishes its prices excluding VAT, and the table above says so. ### What if I end a 12-month term early? You can delete a server at any time, but the days left on a term are not paid back. When we cannot deliver a server, or it fails and support cannot get it running, the lost days are credited back to your balance, which never expires. Top-ups are not paid out unless the law requires it; the part paid only to reach the minimum top-up can be returned on request within 30 days of payment, in USDT or USDC, as long as it is unspent. If you are unsure, start with one month and switch the next renewal to a longer term. ### Why is there no plan above 8 TB? Bedrock, at 8 TB, is the largest storage VPS we sell. Past that size a dedicated storage server, a whole machine full of disks, is the better fit, and we say so plainly rather than stretch a VPS. ## Sources for the comparison 1. [Storage VPS plans STORAGE-1 to STORAGE-10](https://deluxhost.net/en/storage) — DeluxHost (read 2026-11-02) 2. [Hybrid storage VPS (1, 2, 4, 8 and 16 TB)](https://hostbrr.com/hybrid-storage-vps.html) — Hostbrr (read 2026-11-02) 3. [Storage VPS plans](https://hosthatch.com/products#storage) — HostHatch (read 2026-11-02) 4. [Euro foreign exchange reference rates](https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/eurofxref/eurofxref-daily.xml) — European Central Bank (rate of 2026-10-30) --- Coffervale: Coffervale sells storage VPS in Europe: KVM servers with 500 GB to 8 TB of HDD storage for off-site backups, Nextcloud, Seafile, Syncthing and archives, paid in crypto with no ID at signup. The servers run in Amsterdam, Bucharest and Chișinău, and the operator is DomaineGoat LLC, a company registered in Panama. On the 12-month term, every plan is priced at least 25% a month under a named comparable storage VPS, picked from 10 no-KYC crypto hosts whose prices were read on 2 November 2026. --- # Privacy Policy for Coffervale storage VPS > Coffervale privacy policy for storage VPS: the billing records kept, no connection or traffic logs, no cookies, crypto payments, disk wiping, no KYC. - URL: https://coffervale.com/privacy/ - Last updated: 2026-11-02 - Publisher: Coffervale (https://coffervale.com) Which records Coffervale keeps and why, what it never records, what sits in your browser, what happens to your disk, and when anything is handed over. **Quick answer — What does Coffervale keep about me?** What we hold is limited to what billing and running a server need: your account number, plus an email only if you add one; every top-up and order with its amount, coin, network, transaction ID and date; and for each server its plan, term, city, system, SSH public key or temporary root password, IP addresses and dates. Only an order of a Panamanian court can make us release any of these records. An email address exists on your account only if you add one. **Coffervale** sets no cookies, loads no analytics or advertising scripts, and never asks for an identity document, a selfie or a card. ## 1. Who is responsible DomaineGoat LLC, a limited liability company registered in Panama, runs Coffervale and is responsible for the data described here. It is the seller named in the [terms of service](https://coffervale.com/terms/ "Coffervale terms of service"). Questions about this policy go to support@coffervale.com. ## 2. No logs We keep no logs: no record of connections or traffic and no IP address of a visitor or customer, whether on this website, in the dashboard or on the host machines. Like every website, ours receives your IP address with each request. It serves to answer that request and, held in memory only, to limit how many requests one address can make; it is never written to a log or a file. The datacenters that house our servers run their own network equipment, under the law of their own country, which we do not control. ## 3. The records we keep Each record below exists because billing or running a server needs it. Nothing else about you is stored. | What we hold | Purpose | Source | | --- | --- | --- | | Account number | Signs you in and ties together your balance, orders and servers | Created with your account | | Email address (optional) | Sends your account number back if you lose it | Only if you add one | | Top-ups: amount, coin, network, date, transaction ID | Finds the payment on its blockchain and credits it | You, and the public blockchain (for Monero, without the sender or the amount) | | Orders and balance movements | Billing, renewals and credited days | Your orders | | Each server: plan, term, city, system, IP addresses, dates | Runs, renews and bills the server | Your order and the team | | SSH public key, or the temporary root password we set | Builds or reinstalls the server with your access | You at checkout, or the team when you gave no key | | Server name you choose | Lets you tell your servers apart | You | | Referral code, if your link carried one | Records where an order came from | The link you followed | | Dashboard language | Lets the team answer in context | Your browser | | Support emails | To answer you | Messages you send | ## 4. The contents of your disk The files on your storage VPS are yours. We do not open, index or copy them, and we keep no backup of them. Whoever runs a hypervisor can technically read an unencrypted virtual disk, at any VPS host. We do not open your files, and data you encrypt before it leaves your machine takes the question off the table. KVM gives your server its own kernel, so you can put LUKS on the data disk or run ZFS with native encryption, and the keys never leave you. For backups, encrypt on your own machine before upload (Borg, restic and Kopia all do it), so the server only ever holds ciphertext. When a server ends, deleted by you or left unpaid past its 7-day hold, its disk is wiped and nobody can bring the data back, us included. ## 5. What we never collect - No KYC: no ID document, no selfie, no card and no phone number is asked at signup. - No legal name, home address or birth date: none of our forms has a field for them. - No card number or bank account: we take crypto and nothing else. - No private SSH key, no root password you chose, no account number by email. Nobody from our team will ever ask for your account number, your root password or your private SSH key, by email or in a chat. ## 6. Cookies and browser storage Coffervale sets no cookies. The website and the dashboard load no analytics, advertising or tracking scripts, and the fonts are served from our own domain. Some parts of the site save small items in your browser's local storage; they stay on your device until they expire or you delete them. | Item | Where | What it holds | Sent to us? | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Language | Website | The language you picked | No | | Session | Dashboard | A sign-in token, removed when you sign out | With each dashboard request, over HTTPS | | Account and payment copy | Dashboard | Account number, optional email, language and your top-ups, so a payment page survives a reload | Already on file | | Unsent top-ups | Dashboard | Top-ups our server has not confirmed receiving, retried until it does | Yes, until received | | Fresh account number | Dashboard, current tab only | A newly created account number, kept until you confirm you stored it | No | If the computer is shared, sign out and delete the site's stored data afterwards. For BTC, ETH, SOL, LTC or XMR, the payment page asks a public price service for the dollar rate (Coinbase, or CoinGecko if Coinbase does not answer). That request carries no cookie, no referrer and no account data, though the service sees your IP address as any website would. USDT and USDC count as one dollar and need no rate. ## 7. What a crypto payment shows in public A payment in BTC, USDT, USDC, ETH, SOL or LTC is written on a public blockchain: its amount, time and addresses are visible to anyone, and once you give us its transaction ID, the top-up is linked to the history of the wallet that paid it. Monero is the exception, since a public block explorer shows neither the sender nor the amount of a Monero payment. Either way, our billing ties the top-up to your account, to its orders and to the IP addresses of its servers. Each incoming payment is screened against public sanctions lists of blockchain addresses, and money from a listed address is never credited; a Monero payment keeps its sending address out of view, so that screening has no address to check. No card or bank processor is involved. The steps of a payment are on [paying for a storage VPS with crypto](https://coffervale.com/storage-vps-with-crypto/ "Coins, networks and confirmation times"). ## 8. How data is used and who receives it The records above serve to run your account, build and renew servers, credit payments, answer support and handle abuse reports. We sell no data and use none for advertising. Only a Panamanian court order releases records. We take no action on DMCA notices or any other foreign copyright notice: Panamanian law and the orders of Panamanian courts are the only ones Coffervale follows. That is not a licence, since our own rules still forbid publicly distributing content you hold no rights to. Foreign demands of any other kind receive no data. ## 9. How long data is kept - **Account, orders and top-ups:** as long as the account exists and billing requires it. - **A server's disk:** held for 7 days after a term lapses, then wiped; wiped at once when you delete the server or ask for a reinstall. - **Items in your browser:** kept on your device until you sign out or delete them (section 6). ## 10. Your choices You can use Coffervale without giving an email. You can delete any server from the dashboard, which wipes its disk. For questions about the data on your account, write to support@coffervale.com with an order reference (ORD-…), never your account number. ## 11. Security Anyone with your account number can sign in as you, so store it in a password manager. Root logs in over SSH. Paste a public key at checkout and password login stays off; leave the field empty and the team sets a temporary root password, shown in your dashboard, that you replace at your first login. Keep private SSH keys and disk encryption keys on your own devices; nobody at Coffervale needs them. ## 12. Age Only adults, aged 18 and over, may open an account. Should we learn that an account belongs to a minor, we close it. ## 13. Changes and contact We may update this policy; the date at the top shows the version in force. Questions: support@coffervale.com. --- Coffervale: Coffervale sells storage VPS in Europe: KVM servers with 500 GB to 8 TB of HDD storage for off-site backups, Nextcloud, Seafile, Syncthing and archives, paid in crypto with no ID at signup. The servers run in Amsterdam, Bucharest and Chișinău, and the operator is DomaineGoat LLC, a company registered in Panama. On the 12-month term, every plan is priced at least 25% a month under a named comparable storage VPS, picked from 10 no-KYC crypto hosts whose prices were read on 2 November 2026. --- # Refund Policy for Coffervale storage VPS > Coffervale refund policy for storage VPS, with examples: lost days back to your balance, which never expires, and the minimum top-up part within 30 days. - URL: https://coffervale.com/refunds/ - Last updated: 2026-11-02 - Publisher: Coffervale (https://coffervale.com) When days are credited back, where the money goes, which part of a top-up can return as crypto, and how to ask. **Quick answer — Does Coffervale give refunds on storage VPS?** In two defined cases, yes. When we cannot deliver a server, or it fails and support cannot get it running, the lost days are credited back to your balance, which never expires. Top-ups are not paid out unless the law requires it; the part paid only to reach the minimum top-up can be returned on request within 30 days of payment, in USDT or USDC, as long as it is unspent. Credited days land on your **Coffervale** balance, not in a wallet, and asking needs no ID: an email with your order reference is enough. ## 1. When are days credited back? Exactly two situations bring days back to your balance: - **The server cannot be built**, for instance because the city you picked takes no new servers by the time your payment is confirmed. No server is made, and every cent of its price remains on your balance. - **The server stops working and support cannot repair it.** The days it was down return to your balance, each worth the price of the term divided by its days. The table shows the rule on common cases. | What happens | Result | | --- | --- | | You order Granite for 12 months at $90.30, and its city is full when your payment is confirmed | No server is created; $90.30 stays on your balance for another city or plan. | | Your Clay server on a one-month term ($2.37) runs 10 days, then fails, and support cannot fix it | The 20 days it was down return to your balance: 20/30 of $2.37. | | You delete a Shale server halfway through a 6-month term | No credit: deleting a server ends it with its remaining days. | | Your server is suspended for breaking the acceptable use policy | No credit: a suspension for a breach is not a refund case. | | Auto-renew is off, or the balance is too low, when a term ends | The server stops; its disk is held 7 days, then wiped. Nothing more is charged or credited. | ## 2. Where does a refund go? Credited days go to your Coffervale balance, in US dollars, as soon as support confirms them. Credit on your balance does not expire and renews any of your VPS. When a top-up is only made to reach the minimum, the unspent part comes back on request within 30 days of payment, in USDT or USDC. The rest of a balance is not paid out unless the law requires it. The balance pays for any plan and any rental length on the [pricing page](https://coffervale.com/pricing/ "Coffervale storage VPS plans and terms"), in any of the three cities. ## 3. Can any crypto come back from a top-up? Top-ups are not paid out unless the law requires it, with one exception: the part added only to reach the $1 minimum. That part can return on request within 30 days of payment, in USDT or USDC, as long as it has not been spent. The exception exists because of the minimum itself: when an order costs less than $1, the top-up is raised to the minimum and the difference sits on your balance. Today no plan costs that little: Silt, the smallest, is $1.77 for one month, so a top-up started from an order matches its price and has no such part. | Your top-up | Returnable in USDT or USDC | | --- | --- | | $1.77 for a month of Silt, the smallest order | Nothing: even this order is above the $1 minimum, so the top-up equals its price. | | $10.75 for a month of Granite | Nothing, for the same reason. | | $201.01 for a year of Bedrock | Nothing: the order was above the minimum, so no part was added to reach it. | | $1 or more with no plan in the order | Nothing: the whole amount is ordinary balance. | | Any top-up, when you ask 45 days after paying | Nothing: the 30-day window has closed; the amount stays on your balance, which never expires. | ## 4. How do I ask? By email, with no identity document. 1. **Write to support** — Send an email to support@coffervale.com with the subject "Refund request", from the address on your account if it has one. 2. **Point to the payment** — Give the order reference (ORD-…) and the transaction ID (TXID). Never your account number: Nobody from our team will ever ask for your account number, your root password or your private SSH key, by email or in a chat. 3. **Say what you want back** — For days of a failed server, its IP address and what went wrong. For the minimum top-up part, a USDT or USDC address and its network. 4. **Wait for the reply** — A person answers support emails within 12 hours, seven days a week, including help with SSH keys, reinstalls and firewall rules. ## 5. What is never refunded? - Balance from top-ups, apart from the minimum top-up part of section 3, unless the law requires a payout. - The remaining days of a server you delete. - The remaining days of a server suspended for breaking the [acceptable use policy](https://coffervale.com/acceptable-use/ "What a Coffervale storage VPS may hold and run"). - Data on a server after its 7-day hold, or after a deletion or reinstall: We take no backup of your server and keep no copy of your data anywhere else, so what sits on a Coffervale storage VPS should be one of your copies, never the only one. - Network fees you paid to send crypto. - Money sent from a sanctioned address. Each incoming payment is screened against public sanctions lists of blockchain addresses, and money from a listed address is never credited; a Monero payment keeps its sending address out of view, so that screening has no address to check. - Crypto sent on the wrong network or to the wrong address: a blockchain transfer cannot be reversed. ## 6. Chargebacks A crypto payment is final once the network confirms it, so there is no chargeback. This policy is the only route to money back, and every request goes by email to support@coffervale.com. It forms part of the [terms of service](https://coffervale.com/terms/ "Coffervale terms of service"). ## 7. Changes We may update this policy; the date at the top shows the version in force, and a change applies to payments made after that date. --- Coffervale: Coffervale sells storage VPS in Europe: KVM servers with 500 GB to 8 TB of HDD storage for off-site backups, Nextcloud, Seafile, Syncthing and archives, paid in crypto with no ID at signup. The servers run in Amsterdam, Bucharest and Chișinău, and the operator is DomaineGoat LLC, a company registered in Panama. On the 12-month term, every plan is priced at least 25% a month under a named comparable storage VPS, picked from 10 no-KYC crypto hosts whose prices were read on 2 November 2026. --- # Restic: REST server or SFTP for backups to a storage VPS? > Restic: REST server or SFTP for backups to a VPS? rest-server adds --append-only and --private-repos; SFTP needs only SSH. 1 TB $1.66, crypto, no ID. - URL: https://coffervale.com/restic-rest-server-vs-sftp/ - Last updated: 2026-11-02 - Publisher: Coffervale (https://coffervale.com) Both backends store the same encrypted repository in the same folder layout. The difference is who may delete what, how many people share the server, and how much the protocol costs on the wire. **Quick answer — Restic: REST server or SFTP for backups to a VPS?** For restic backups to a VPS, use rest-server when clients must not delete snapshots: its `--append-only` mode refuses deletions and `--private-repos` keeps each user in their own folder. Use SFTP when one trusted machine backs up and you want nothing but SSH. On a **Coffervale** storage VPS, 1 TB costs $1.66 a month on 12 months (2 November 2026). ## What is the difference between restic's REST server and SFTP backends? | Feature | SFTP | rest-server | | --- | --- | --- | | Software on the VPS | OpenSSH, already installed | rest-server (Debian 13 package `restic-rest-server`, or the `restic/rest-server` Docker image) | | Transport | SSH | HTTP or HTTPS, port 8000 by default | | Login | SSH keys per Unix account | HTTP user and password from an htpasswd file (bcrypt or SHA) | | Client can delete old snapshots | Yes | No, with `--append-only` | | Users kept apart | Unix accounts and folder permissions | `--private-repos`: each user only under `//` | | Repository layout on disk | Same as a local repository | Same as a local repository | | Repository encryption | restic, always on | restic, always on | ## Is rest-server faster than SFTP? **The rest-server project says yes: compared with SFTP, the REST backend performs better and scales further.** Its README gives the reason: SFTP moves data in chunks of at most 32 KiB and the server acknowledges every packet, while REST sends whole files over HTTP. Plain HTTP removes the TLS overhead too, since restic already encrypts everything it sends; the README adds that HTTPS then mostly serves to protect the login. That is the project's own claim, not a benchmark we ran. On a storage VPS with hard disks, the disks and your uplink often set the pace before the protocol does. On the client side, SFTP has one known annoyance: restic's documentation notes that SFTP servers close connections when they receive nothing for a while, which long scans of unchanged files can trigger. ## When is plain SFTP the better choice? **When one machine you trust backs up to its own account and you want no extra service, no extra port and nothing new to patch.** restic needs only `restic -r sftp:user@host:/path init` and an SSH key without a passphrase prompt, since an automatic backup cannot stop to ask for one. The weakness is the one that matters most against ransomware: whoever controls the client can also run `restic forget --prune` and delete every snapshot, because SFTP has no append-only mode. To keep each SFTP account from browsing the rest of the server, OpenSSH can lock it into its own folder with no shell: */etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/restic-sftp.conf, then sshd -t && systemctl reload ssh* ```text Match User restic-laptop ForceCommand internal-sftp ChrootDirectory /srv/restic-sftp/%u AllowTcpForwarding no X11Forwarding no ``` *Account, chroot and repository, as root on the VPS; the client then uses sftp:restic-laptop@203.0.113.10:/repo* ```bash useradd --no-create-home --home-dir /srv/restic-sftp/restic-laptop --shell /usr/sbin/nologin restic-laptop install -d -m 755 -o root -g root /srv/restic-sftp/restic-laptop install -d -m 700 -o restic-laptop -g restic-laptop /srv/restic-sftp/restic-laptop/repo install -d -m 700 -o restic-laptop -g restic-laptop /srv/restic-sftp/restic-laptop/.ssh echo 'ssh-ed25519 AAAA...client-key... laptop' > /srv/restic-sftp/restic-laptop/.ssh/authorized_keys chown restic-laptop:restic-laptop /srv/restic-sftp/restic-laptop/.ssh/authorized_keys chmod 600 /srv/restic-sftp/restic-laptop/.ssh/authorized_keys ``` ## How do I run rest-server with append-only and private repositories? **On Debian 13, install `restic-rest-server`, point it at a data folder outside `/home`, and pass `--append-only --private-repos` plus TLS in its defaults file.** The packaged service runs as the `restic-rest-server` user, reads `BACKUP_DIR`, `LISTEN` and `ARGS` from `/etc/default/restic-rest-server`, refuses to start until `BACKUP_DIR` is set, and hides `/home` from the daemon. With `--private-repos`, the user `laptop` may only open repositories under `/laptop/`, so several people can share one storage VPS without seeing each other's snapshots. A self-signed certificate is enough, because the client pins it with `--cacert`. *On the storage VPS, as root (Debian 13)* ```bash apt install restic-rest-server apache2-utils openssl install -d -m 750 -o restic-rest-server -g restic-rest-server /srv/restic openssl req -x509 -newkey rsa:3072 -nodes -days 3650 \ -keyout /etc/restic-rest-server/key.pem -out /etc/restic-rest-server/cert.pem \ -subj '/CN=coffer-backup' -addext 'subjectAltName=IP:203.0.113.10' chown root:restic-rest-server /etc/restic-rest-server/key.pem chmod 640 /etc/restic-rest-server/key.pem cat > /etc/default/restic-rest-server <<'EOF' BACKUP_DIR=/srv/restic LISTEN=:8000 ARGS="--htpasswd-file /etc/restic-rest-server/users.htpasswd --append-only --private-repos --tls --tls-cert /etc/restic-rest-server/cert.pem --tls-key /etc/restic-rest-server/key.pem" EOF htpasswd -B /etc/restic-rest-server/users.htpasswd laptop chown root:restic-rest-server /etc/restic-rest-server/users.htpasswd chmod 640 /etc/restic-rest-server/users.htpasswd systemctl enable restic-rest-server systemctl restart restic-rest-server ``` *On the client: credentials in a private file, not in the URL* ```bash mkdir -p ~/.config/restic scp root@203.0.113.10:/etc/restic-rest-server/cert.pem ~/.config/restic/coffer.pem cat > ~/.config/restic/coffer.env <<'EOF' RESTIC_REPOSITORY=rest:https://203.0.113.10:8000/laptop/ RESTIC_REST_USERNAME=laptop RESTIC_REST_PASSWORD=the-htpasswd-password RESTIC_PASSWORD_FILE=/home/me/.config/restic/repo-password RESTIC_CACERT=/home/me/.config/restic/coffer.pem EOF chmod 600 ~/.config/restic/coffer.env set -a; . ~/.config/restic/coffer.env; set +a restic init restic backup ~/Documents ~/Pictures ``` ## How do I prune snapshots when rest-server is append-only? **Run `forget --prune` from a trusted admin machine over a path that is not append-only, and write the policy with `--keep-within`.** rest-server keeps the repository in the same layout as a local repository, so SFTP as root reaches the very same folder, and the repository password never has to be typed on the VPS. The `--keep-within` part matters. restic's documentation describes an attacker who adds empty snapshots to an append-only repository so that a policy such as one snapshot per week drops the real ones; a time-based policy keeps both the junk and the genuine snapshots. It only helps while the system clock is right when `forget` runs, and it is no reason to skip a look at `restic snapshots` first. *From the admin machine, never from the client* ```bash restic -r sftp:root@203.0.113.10:/srv/restic/laptop snapshots restic -r sftp:root@203.0.113.10:/srv/restic/laptop forget --keep-within 90d --prune restic -r sftp:root@203.0.113.10:/srv/restic/laptop check --read-data-subset=5% ``` ## Which backend should I pick? **Pick rest-server whenever the machine being backed up faces the internet; pick SFTP for a single, well-kept machine where simplicity wins.** An append-only target cannot be emptied by the attacker who encrypts your server, and that one property outweighs the extra daemon. | Your situation | Backend | Why | | --- | --- | --- | | One laptop or desktop, one account | SFTP | Nothing to install, no new port | | Public servers that could be hacked | rest-server `--append-only` | A stolen client cannot delete history | | Several people or machines on one VPS | rest-server `--private-repos` | Each login sees its own folder only | | Only HTTP or HTTPS allowed out of the network | rest-server | Works where SSH is blocked | | Both: clients append-only, admin prunes | rest-server for clients, SFTP as root for the admin | Same folder, two levels of access | ## What does a restic target cost per TB? **According to Coffervale's survey of 2 November 2026, Backblaze B2, an object store restic supports natively, cost $6.95 per TB a month, while storage VPS plans from hosts that take crypto without an ID document had a median of $4.00 per TB.** An object store needs no server to maintain but offers neither of the two backends discussed here; a storage VPS runs both. We take no backup of your server and keep no copy of your data anywhere else, so what sits on a Coffervale storage VPS should be one of your copies, never the only one: the VPS is your off-site copy, as [How do I use a VPS for off-site backups?](https://coffervale.com/backup-vps/ "Off-site backups and the 3-2-1 rule") explains. If you would rather use Borg, follow [How do I set up a Borg backup server on a VPS?](https://coffervale.com/borg-backup-server-on-a-vps/ "Borg server with append-only keys"); to encrypt the disk underneath, see [How do I mount and format the storage disk on a Linux VPS?](https://coffervale.com/mount-storage-disk-on-a-vps/ "Format, mount and encrypt the data disk"). Plans and terms are on [How much does a storage VPS cost per month?](https://coffervale.com/pricing/ "Coffervale storage VPS prices"). ## Questions about restic on a VPS ### Is restic over SFTP encrypted? Twice. restic encrypts every file it stores with AES-256 and authenticates it with Poly1305-AES before upload, and SSH encrypts the connection. The VPS only ever holds ciphertext. ### Does rest-server need HTTPS if restic already encrypts the data? Yes, for the login. Without TLS, the HTTP user and password cross the network in clear text, and anyone who captures them can write to your repository. Use `--tls`, or keep rest-server on localhost and reach it through an SSH tunnel. ### Can rest-server and SFTP serve the same repository? Yes. Both use the same folder layout as a local repository, so clients can write through an append-only rest-server while an admin prunes the same folder over SFTP. ### Which port does rest-server listen on? Port 8000 on all addresses by default. Open it in the firewall only to the addresses that back up, or bind it to a private address such as a WireGuard interface. ### Which restic version should I run? The latest release on 2 November 2026 was restic 0.19.1, of 5 July 2026; Debian 13 ships 0.18.0. Repository format version 2, the current default, needs restic 0.14.0 or newer on every machine that opens it. ## Sources 1. [Rest Server README: why use it, append-only mode, private repos, htpasswd, TLS](https://github.com/restic/rest-server) — restic project (read 2026-11-02) 2. [restic documentation: Preparing a new repository (SFTP, REST Server, B2)](https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/stable/030_preparing_a_new_repo.html) — restic project (read 2026-11-02) 3. [restic documentation: Removing backup snapshots, security considerations in append-only mode](https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/stable/060_forget.html) — restic project (read 2026-11-02) 4. [restic documentation: Scripting, environment variables](https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/stable/075_scripting.html) — restic project (read 2026-11-02) 5. [restic documentation: References, repository encryption](https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/stable/100_references.html) — restic project (read 2026-11-02) 6. [restic releases (0.19.1 of 5 July 2026)](https://github.com/restic/restic/releases) — restic project on GitHub (read 2026-11-02) 7. [Debian trixie package restic-rest-server 0.13.0-2: service unit and defaults](https://sources.debian.org/src/restic-rest-server/0.13.0-2/debian/) — Debian (read 2026-11-02) 8. [Debian trixie package search: restic 0.18.0](https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=restic&searchon=names&suite=trixie§ion=all) — Debian (read 2026-11-02) 9. [sshd_config(5): Match, ChrootDirectory, ForceCommand](https://man.openbsd.org/sshd_config) — OpenBSD project (OpenSSH) (read 2026-11-02) 10. [B2 Cloud Storage pricing](https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage/pricing) — Backblaze (read 2026-11-02) --- Coffervale: Coffervale sells storage VPS in Europe: KVM servers with 500 GB to 8 TB of HDD storage for off-site backups, Nextcloud, Seafile, Syncthing and archives, paid in crypto with no ID at signup. The servers run in Amsterdam, Bucharest and Chișinău, and the operator is DomaineGoat LLC, a company registered in Panama. On the 12-month term, every plan is priced at least 25% a month under a named comparable storage VPS, picked from 10 no-KYC crypto hosts whose prices were read on 2 November 2026. --- # Is a storage VPS a cheaper alternative to rsync.net or BorgBase? > A cheaper alternative to rsync.net or BorgBase: 1 TB cost $15.00 and $9.17 a month on 2 Nov 2026. A storage VPS, crypto, no KYC. - URL: https://coffervale.com/rsync-net-alternative/ - Last updated: 2026-11-02 - Publisher: Coffervale (https://coffervale.com) rsync.net and BorgBase run the backup server for you; a storage VPS hands you the server. What each costs from 1 to 8 TB, what you give up by doing it yourself, and how to get the same protections back. **Quick answer — Is a storage VPS a cheaper alternative to rsync.net or BorgBase?** Yes, if you can run the backup server yourself. On 2 November 2026, 1 TB cost $15.00 a month at rsync.net and $9.17 at BorgBase (Medium plan, $110.00 a year); neither listed crypto. **Coffervale**'s 1 TB storage VPS costs $1.66 a month on 12 months, paid in crypto, and takes the same Borg, restic and rsync uploads over SSH. ## What do rsync.net and BorgBase sell, and what does a storage VPS add? **A storage VPS is a cheaper alternative to rsync.net or BorgBase whenever you are willing to look after the server that receives your backups.** The three products answer the same need in different shapes. - **rsync.net** sells "an empty UNIX filesystem" built on ZFS, reached with any SSH tool: rsync, SFTP, SCP, Borg, rclone, restic or git-annex. Its pricing page lists 1.5 cents per GB a month up to 9 TB, an 800 GB minimum, seven daily snapshots on that tier, no contract and no charge for data downloaded. - **BorgBase** hosts Borg and restic repositories only. Plans are sold by the year: 250 GB for $30, 1 TB for $110, 2 TB for $210 (or $20 a month), each able to grow past its quota at a published rate per TB. It bills data after compression and deduplication, offers append-only mode and two-factor login, and lets each repository live in an EU or US region. - **A storage VPS** is a whole Linux server with root access. Nothing is managed for you, and anything that runs on Linux can receive your data. ### rsync.net, BorgBase and a Coffervale storage VPS | | rsync.net | BorgBase | Coffervale storage VPS | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | What you get | ZFS filesystem over SSH | Hosted Borg and restic repositories | KVM server with root access | | About 1 TB, per month | $15.00 | $9.17 ($110.00 a year) | $1.66 on 12 months, $2.37 month to month | | Billing | Monthly, no contract | Yearly; the 2 TB plan also monthly | 1, 3, 6 or 12 months, prepaid | | Smallest order | 800 GB | 250 GB | 500 GB | | Snapshots kept by the provider | 7 daily on the 0 to 9 TB tier | None stated: your archives are the versions | None: your archives are the versions | | Append-only | Not stated on the pricing page | Offered | You set it with borg serve --append-only | | Tools | rsync, SFTP, SCP, Borg, restic, rclone, git-annex | Borg, restic | Any Linux software | | Data transfer | No charge for downloads | No data transfer charges | 4 TB a month on 1 TB, then 100 Mbit/s, no extra bill | | Crypto payment | No | No | Yes | | Location | Listed on a separate page | EU or US region | Amsterdam, Bucharest or Chișinău | *Prices checked on November 2, 2026.* Crypto: payment methods named on the provider's own pages on 2 November 2026 (rsync.net and BorgBase named none). BorgBase prices exclude VAT. ## What does 1, 2, 4 or 8 TB cost at each? **According to Coffervale's survey of 2 November 2026, the median storage VPS cost $4.00 per TB a month: about a quarter of rsync.net's $15.00 and under half of BorgBase's $9.17.** The gap widens with size, because rsync.net charges the same rate per gigabyte up to 9 TB. ### Monthly cost by size, 2 November 2026 | Size | rsync.net | BorgBase | Coffervale, 12-month term | Coffervale, month to month | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 TB | $15.00 | $9.17 (Medium, yearly) | $1.66 | $2.37 | | 2 TB | $30.00 | $17.50 (Large, yearly) or $20.00 monthly | $3.34 | $4.77 | | 4 TB | $60.00 | $37.50 (Large + 2 TB at $10) | $7.53 | $10.75 | | 8 TB | $120.00 | $77.50 (Large + 6 TB at $10) | $16.75 | $23.93 | *Prices checked on November 2, 2026.* rsync.net: 1.5 cents per GB a month on the 0 to 9 TB tier, 1 TB = 1,000 GB. BorgBase: yearly plan price ÷ 12, plus extra terabytes at the $10 per TB a month the Large plan lists; BorgBase charges extra storage at renewal. Arithmetic from published rates, not quotes. ## What do you give up by leaving a managed backup service? **You give up someone else's care: on a storage VPS, the patching, the access rules and the restore tests are yours.** rsync.net keeps ZFS snapshots of your account on its side, and BorgBase offers append-only mode as a setting of its service. On a server you rent, neither happens unless you set it up. We take no backup of your server and keep no copy of your data anywhere else, so what sits on a Coffervale storage VPS should be one of your copies, never the only one. What you gain is the server itself: any Borg version you choose, a restic REST server, Syncthing or Nextcloud next to the backups, your own disk encryption with LUKS, and payment in crypto. The tools encrypt on your machine in any case, so the provider holds ciphertext whichever of the three you pick. How the storage VPS fits a wider plan is set out in [how do I use a storage VPS for off-site backups?](https://coffervale.com/backup-vps/ "Backup VPS: off-site backups") ## How do I get the same protections on a storage VPS? **Lock each backup key to one repository and to append-only writes, encrypt on your own machine, and test a restore.** Borg's `borg serve` takes both restrictions from a forced command in `~/.ssh/authorized_keys`: `--restrict-to-repository` limits a key to one path, and `--append-only` only lets the client add to the repository. A client that is later compromised can then write new archives but cannot erase old ones. Run pruning from a trusted machine with a separate key. The full server setup is in [how do I set up a Borg backup server on a storage VPS?](https://coffervale.com/borg-backup-server-on-a-vps/ "Borg backup server on a storage VPS") *One locked-down Borg repository per client* ```bash # On the storage VPS, as the user that owns the repositories mkdir -p /srv/borg/laptop ~/.ssh echo 'command="borg serve --restrict-to-repository /srv/borg/laptop --append-only",restrict ssh-ed25519 AAAA-your-public-key laptop' >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys # On the laptop: create the encrypted repository, export its key, run a first backup borg init --encryption=repokey-blake2 ssh://borg@203.0.113.10/srv/borg/laptop borg key export ssh://borg@203.0.113.10/srv/borg/laptop ~/borg-laptop.key borg create --stats ssh://borg@203.0.113.10/srv/borg/laptop::'{hostname}-{now}' ~/Documents ~/Pictures ``` ## When are rsync.net or BorgBase the better choice? **When you would rather not run a server at all.** A managed service is worth its premium if: - you want snapshots kept by the provider, on its side of the line; - you need more than 8 TB in one place: Bedrock, at 8 TB, is the largest storage VPS we sell. Past that size a dedicated storage server, a whole machine full of disks, is the better fit, and we say so plainly rather than stretch a VPS; - you want a US region; - nobody on your side will patch a Linux server every month. If all you want is a cheap place to push backups without root, a storage box is the third option, weighed in [Hetzner Storage Box or a storage VPS?](https://coffervale.com/storage-box-vs-storage-vps/ "Storage Box vs storage VPS") Prices for every storage VPS seller are in [what is the least expensive storage VPS per TB right now?](https://coffervale.com/storage-vps-price-index/ "Storage VPS price index") ## rsync.net and BorgBase alternative: questions ### Do rsync.net or BorgBase accept crypto? Neither named a payment method on the pages read on 2 November 2026. Coffervale takes BTC, USDT, USDC, ETH, SOL, LTC, XMR, from a minimum top-up of $1. ### Can I use Borg and restic with a Coffervale storage VPS? Yes. You install the version you want, then reach the server over SSH; restic can also talk to a REST server you run on it. KVM gives your server its own kernel, so you can put LUKS on the data disk or run ZFS with native encryption, and the keys never leave you. For backups, encrypt on your own machine before upload (Borg, restic and Kopia all do it), so the server only ever holds ciphertext. ### Does Coffervale keep snapshots like rsync.net? No. We take no backup of your server and keep no copy of your data anywhere else, so what sits on a Coffervale storage VPS should be one of your copies, never the only one. Your Borg or restic archives are the history, so keep a second copy of anything you cannot lose. ### Can I get BorgBase's append-only mode on a storage VPS? Yes: put `borg serve --append-only` in the forced command of the client's SSH key, as in the example above. Prune from a separate, trusted key that does not carry the flag. ### How do I move my backups from rsync.net or BorgBase? The simplest path is to start a fresh repository on the storage VPS and keep the old one until its retention period has passed. A Borg repository on rsync.net is a plain directory, so it can also be copied across with rsync while no backup is running. ## Sources 1. [Pricing](https://www.rsync.net/pricing.html) — rsync.net (read 2026-11-02) 2. [Cloud storage for offsite backups (home page)](https://www.rsync.net/) — rsync.net (read 2026-11-02) 3. [Plans and pricing](https://www.borgbase.com/) — BorgBase (read 2026-11-02) 4. [borg serve (Borg 1.4 documentation)](https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage/serve.html) — The Borg Collective (checked 2026-11-02) 5. [restic: preparing a new repository (SFTP and REST Server backends)](https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/stable/030_preparing_a_new_repo.html) — restic authors (checked 2026-11-02) --- Coffervale: Coffervale sells storage VPS in Europe: KVM servers with 500 GB to 8 TB of HDD storage for off-site backups, Nextcloud, Seafile, Syncthing and archives, paid in crypto with no ID at signup. The servers run in Amsterdam, Bucharest and Chișinău, and the operator is DomaineGoat LLC, a company registered in Panama. On the 12-month term, every plan is priced at least 25% a month under a named comparable storage VPS, picked from 10 no-KYC crypto hosts whose prices were read on 2 November 2026. --- # Hetzner Storage Box or a storage VPS: which one should I pick? > Hetzner Storage Box or a storage VPS? BX11 gave 1 TB of SFTP space for €3.20 a month on 2 Nov 2026, without root; a storage VPS is a server. Crypto, no KYC. - URL: https://coffervale.com/storage-box-vs-storage-vps/ - Last updated: 2026-11-02 - Publisher: Coffervale (https://coffervale.com) Both cost a few dollars per terabyte and both take Borg, restic and rsync. The difference is what else you can do: a Storage Box holds files, a storage VPS runs software next to them. **Quick answer — Hetzner Storage Box or a storage VPS: which one should I pick?** Pick a Hetzner Storage Box if you only need somewhere to push backups over SFTP, rsync, Borg or restic; pick a storage VPS if you need to run software such as Nextcloud next to your files. On 2 November 2026, the 1 TB BX11 cost €3.20 a month excluding VAT, with no full shell; **Coffervale**'s 1 TB storage VPS costs $1.66 on 12 months, with root and crypto payment. ## What is the difference between a Storage Box and a storage VPS? **A Storage Box is disk space you log in to; a storage VPS is a computer you run.** Choosing between a Hetzner Storage Box or a storage VPS is less about price per terabyte, which is close, than about whether you need to execute anything on the far side. Hetzner's own documentation is plain about the box: "There is no full shell," and uploaded scripts cannot be executed. ### Hetzner Storage Box and a Coffervale storage VPS | | Hetzner Storage Box | Coffervale storage VPS | | --- | --- | --- | | What it is | Network storage | KVM virtual server | | Shell access | Restricted: a short list of file commands on port 23 | Full root shell over SSH | | Run your own software | No | Yes | | Ways in | FTP, FTPS, SFTP, SCP, Samba, WebDAV, HTTPS, rsync over SSH, Borg, restic, rclone | Whatever you install | | Snapshots kept by the provider | 10 to 40, by plan | None | | Sizes | 1, 5, 10 or 20 TB | 500 GB, 1 TB, 2 TB, 4 TB or 8 TB | | 1 TB, per month | €3.20 excl. VAT ($3.58) | $1.66 on 12 months, $2.37 month to month | | Location | Germany or Finland | Amsterdam, Bucharest or Chișinău | | Crypto payment | No | Yes | *Prices checked on November 2, 2026.* Hetzner: plan page and access documentation read on 2 November 2026; no crypto payment method found on the page. Euro prices converted at 1 EUR = 1.1172 USD (ECB, 30 October 2026). ## What can a Hetzner Storage Box do? **It takes files in almost every way you could ask for, and it keeps snapshots of them.** Hetzner's plan page and its access documentation, read on 2 November 2026, list: - **Protocols:** FTP, FTPS, SFTP, SCP, Samba/CIFS, WebDAV, HTTPS, rsync over SSH, BorgBackup, restic and rclone; it can be mounted as a network drive. - **SSH:** port 23 serves rsync, Borg and the other command-line tools, with a restricted set of commands such as `ls`, `cp`, `mv`, `du`, `df` and `sha256sum`; port 22 allows no interactive login. - **Borg:** versions picked with `--remote-path`: `borg-1.1`, `borg-1.2` (the default) or `borg-1.4`. restic works through its SFTP backend or through rclone. - **Snapshots:** 10 on BX11, 20 on BX21, 30 on BX31 and 40 on BX41, with automated snapshots too. - **Accounts:** up to 100 sub-accounts and 10 connections at once. What it cannot do is run anything you bring. No daemon, no cron job on the box, no web interface of your own. ## What can only a storage VPS do? **Everything that needs a process running next to the data.** With root on a Coffervale server you can run: - **Nextcloud or Seafile**, so your files have a web interface, calendars and phone sync; - **an always-on Syncthing node** that keeps devices in step; - **a restic REST server**, or **Borg in the exact version you want**, with each client key locked by `borg serve --restrict-to-repository` and `--append-only`; - **pruning and checks on the server side**, scheduled by cron, so a laptop does not have to stay awake for them; - **encryption at rest you control**: KVM gives your server its own kernel, so you can put LUKS on the data disk or run ZFS with native encryption, and the keys never leave you. For backups, encrypt on your own machine before upload (Borg, restic and Kopia all do it), so the server only ever holds ciphertext. The price of that freedom is upkeep: the operating system, the SSH setup and the restore tests are yours. We take no backup of your server and keep no copy of your data anywhere else, so what sits on a Coffervale storage VPS should be one of your copies, never the only one. For the product in general, see [what is a storage VPS?](https://coffervale.com/what-is-a-storage-vps/ "What is a storage VPS: uses, price, RAID") ## How do Storage Box and storage VPS prices compare per TB? **According to Coffervale's survey of 2 November 2026, a Hetzner Storage Box cost $2.27 to $3.58 per TB a month excluding VAT, the same band as the least expensive storage VPS plans from hosts that take crypto and ask no ID ($2.22 up to the $4.00 median).** The box gets cheaper per terabyte as it grows, and its sizes jump from 1 TB straight to 5 TB, so someone holding 2 TB pays for 5. ### Price per month and per TB, 2 November 2026 | Plan | Size | Price a month | $/TB a month | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Hetzner BX11 | 1 TB | €3.20 excl. VAT | $3.58 | | Hetzner BX21 | 5 TB | €10.90 excl. VAT | $2.44 | | Hetzner BX31 | 10 TB | €20.80 excl. VAT | $2.32 | | Hetzner BX41 | 20 TB | €40.60 excl. VAT | $2.27 | | Coffervale Silt | 500 GB | $1.24 on 12 months | $2.48 | | Coffervale Clay | 1 TB | $1.66 on 12 months | $1.66 | | Coffervale Shale | 2 TB | $3.34 on 12 months | $1.67 | | Coffervale Granite | 4 TB | $7.53 on 12 months | $1.88 | | Coffervale Bedrock | 8 TB | $16.75 on 12 months | $2.09 | *Prices checked on November 2, 2026.* Hetzner also shows hourly prices and a one-time setup fee line without an amount. Coffervale month-to-month prices run from $1.77 to $23.93. Euro prices converted at 1 EUR = 1.1172 USD (ECB, 30 October 2026). ## Which one fits which job? **Let the job decide, then the size.** - **Backups from a few machines with Borg, restic or rsync:** either works. Take the box if you never want to administer a server; take the storage VPS if you want to set the access rules yourself or pay in crypto. - **Nextcloud, Seafile or Syncthing:** storage VPS only. - **A network drive for a home PC:** the box is simpler, with Samba and WebDAV built in. - **10 to 20 TB in one place:** the box's BX31 and BX41, or a dedicated server; Bedrock, at 8 TB, is the largest storage VPS we sell. Past that size a dedicated storage server, a whole machine full of disks, is the better fit, and we say so plainly rather than stretch a VPS. - **No ID at signup and crypto payment:** the storage VPS. No KYC: no ID document, no selfie, no card and no phone number is asked at signup; coins accepted: BTC, USDT, USDC, ETH, SOL, LTC, XMR. The same choice against managed backup services is weighed in [is a storage VPS a cheaper alternative to rsync.net or BorgBase?](https://coffervale.com/rsync-net-alternative/ "rsync.net and BorgBase alternative"), and every storage VPS seller is in [what is the least expensive storage VPS per TB right now?](https://coffervale.com/storage-vps-price-index/ "Storage VPS price index") ## Can I use a Storage Box and a storage VPS together? **Yes, and the pair makes a sound backup plan.** Run Nextcloud or your backup server on the storage VPS, then send a nightly Borg or restic copy of it to a Storage Box with another provider. That gives you two copies in two places held by two companies, which covers a lost account as well as a lost disk. One storage VPS is one copy in one place. The 3-2-1 rule asks for three copies, on two kinds of media, with one of them off-site: a storage VPS fits as that off-site copy, next to two you keep yourself. ## Storage Box vs storage VPS: questions ### Can I run Nextcloud on a Hetzner Storage Box? No. The box gives no full shell and cannot execute uploaded scripts, so no web application can run on it. Nextcloud needs a server, such as a storage VPS. ### Does a Hetzner Storage Box give SSH access? Yes, for file transfer and backup tools: SFTP, SCP, rsync, Borg and restic over SSH. Interactive use on port 23 is limited to a short list of commands, and port 22 allows none. ### Which Borg versions does a Storage Box support? Borg 1.1, 1.2 and 1.4, picked with `--remote-path`; 1.2 is the default. On a storage VPS you install whichever version you need. ### Does Coffervale keep snapshots like a Storage Box? No. We take no backup of your server and keep no copy of your data anywhere else, so what sits on a Coffervale storage VPS should be one of your copies, never the only one. A snapshot sits on the same disks as the server it captures, so it can roll back a mistake but it is not an off-site copy. ### Can I pay for a Hetzner Storage Box with crypto? The Storage Box page read on 2 November 2026 showed no crypto payment method. Coffervale takes BTC, USDT, USDC, ETH, SOL, LTC, XMR, from $1. ## Sources 1. [Storage Box (BX11 to BX41)](https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/) — Hetzner Online (read 2026-11-02) 2. [Storage Box: access with SSH, rsync and BorgBackup](https://docs.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/access/access-ssh-rsync-borg) — Hetzner Online (read 2026-11-02) 3. [borg serve (Borg 1.4 documentation)](https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage/serve.html) — The Borg Collective (checked 2026-11-02) 4. [restic: preparing a new repository (SFTP and REST Server backends)](https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/stable/030_preparing_a_new_repo.html) — restic authors (checked 2026-11-02) 5. [Euro foreign exchange reference rates](https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/eurofxref/eurofxref-daily.xml) — European Central Bank (rate of 2026-10-30) --- Coffervale: Coffervale sells storage VPS in Europe: KVM servers with 500 GB to 8 TB of HDD storage for off-site backups, Nextcloud, Seafile, Syncthing and archives, paid in crypto with no ID at signup. The servers run in Amsterdam, Bucharest and Chișinău, and the operator is DomaineGoat LLC, a company registered in Panama. On the 12-month term, every plan is priced at least 25% a month under a named comparable storage VPS, picked from 10 no-KYC crypto hosts whose prices were read on 2 November 2026. --- # What is the least expensive storage VPS per TB right now? > Storage VPS per TB price index, November 2026: 23 sellers and 5 references with $/TB a month, stock, billing, coins and ID rules. Crypto, no KYC. - URL: https://coffervale.com/storage-vps-price-index/ - Last updated: 2026-11-02 - Publisher: Coffervale (https://coffervale.com) Every storage VPS seller we found that takes crypto, plus five well-known storage services as a yardstick: the best price per terabyte each one sells, whether you could order it on the day, how it bills, where it runs and what it asks of you at signup. **Quick answer — What is the least expensive storage VPS per TB right now?** According to Coffervale's price index of 2 November 2026, the least expensive storage VPS in stock and billed monthly from 18 no-KYC sellers that take crypto cost $2.22 per TB a month (DeluxHost, 1 TB, Netherlands); the median of 99 such plans was $4.00. Coffervale lists its own 1 TB plan apart: $1.66 per TB on 12 months. ## The index in five figures, 2 November 2026 - **$2.22** per TB a month, least expensive plan in stock and billed monthly - **$4.00** per TB a month, median of 99 plans in stock - **$223.44** per TB a month, median general-purpose VPS from the same hosts - **4 of 18** sellers with no storage plan in stock - **6 of 18** sellers that name Monero ## What does this storage VPS index cover? | Attribute | Value | | --- | --- | | Date read | 2 November 2026, on each host's own pages and order carts, without an account or an order | | Hosts read | 70 in total: 23 sell a storage VPS line, 5 are reference services | | Main index | 18 sellers that accept crypto and ask no ID document at signup | | Price shown | Best US dollars per TB a month among plans of 500 GB or more; 1 TB = 1,000 GB; disk as sold, before any RAID overhead | | Currency | Euro prices converted at 1 EUR = 1.1172 USD (ECB, 30 October 2026) | | Next edition | First week of December 2026, with its own date in the title | ## Which storage VPS sellers take crypto and ask no ID, and what does a TB cost? Sorted by price per terabyte. Out-of-stock sellers stay in the list with their best listed plan, because a price you cannot order is still a data point. | Seller | Best $/TB a month (plan) | Stock, 2 Nov 2026 | Billing | Location | Coins (Monero?) | ID at signup | Source, date read | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | DeluxHost | $2.22 (STORAGE-2, 1 TB HDD) | In stock | Monthly | Eygelshoven, NL | BTC, USDT, ETH via Cryptomus; Monero not stated | Conditional | deluxhost.net/en/storage, 2026-11-02 | | Hostbrr | $2.79 (Hybrid 4TB, HDD RAID-6 with NVMe cache, excl. VAT) | In stock | Monthly; 12 months for the price of 10 | Frankfurt, DE | BTC, XMR, USDT named in its terms; Monero yes | Conditional | hostbrr.com/hybrid-storage-vps.html, 2026-11-02 | | InterServer | $3.00 (1 TB SATA slice, up to 32 slices) | In stock | Monthly | US only (NJ, TX, CA) | Via Coinbase, named in its privacy policy; Monero not stated | No | interserver.net/vps/storage.html, 2026-11-02 | | HostHatch | $3.80 (Storage 10TB); 1 TB at $5.00 | In stock | Monthly | Amsterdam, Stockholm, US | Via BitPay, coins not listed; Monero not stated | No | hosthatch.com/products, 2026-11-02 | | AlphaVPS | $4.36 (1 TB HDD, RAID-60, NVMe read cache) | Out of stock in every location | Monthly; yearly at $3.64/TB | Sofia, Nuremberg, London, Dallas | BTC via BitPay; Monero not stated | Conditional | alphavps.com/storage-vps, 2026-11-02 | | NolimitHost | $4.47 (3 TB or 4 TB HDD; 1 TB prepaid quarterly) | In stock | Monthly; 1 TB plan quarterly | Eygelshoven, NL | 25 coins incl. BTC, ETH, LTC; Monero no | No | nolimit.host/cloud/storage-vps.php, 2026-11-02 | | BuyVM | $5.00 (Block Storage Slab, 1 TB; needs a KVM slice) | Every slice out of stock in all 4 locations; slabs in Las Vegas only | Monthly | Las Vegas, New York, Miami, Roost (LU) | BTC, BCH, ETH, LTC, DOGE, XMR via CoinPayments; Monero yes | No | buyvm.net/block-storage-slabs/ and order carts, 2026-11-02 | | VSYS Host | $6.00 (VS-STORAGE-20, 20 TB HDD RAID-10); 1 TB at $10.00 | In stock | Monthly; 24 months at $3.60/TB | Amsterdam and Kyiv on its page; order form: Kyiv, North America | 10 coins incl. BTC, USDT, XMR; Monero yes | Conditional | vsys.host/storage-vps-hosting, 2026-11-02 | | Senko Digital | $7.16 (DE-STORAGE-16, 32 TB HDD, ZFS RAID10) | Out of stock | Monthly; 3, 6 or 12 months | Frankfurt, DE | About 70 coins incl. BTC, ETH, USDT; Monero no | Conditional | senko.digital/en/storage-vps, 2026-11-02 | | MivoCloud | $10.05 (Storage VPS H2, 1 TB HDD) | In stock, Oregon only | Monthly; 6 months at $9.05/TB | Oregon, US (Frankfurt shown, not orderable) | BTC; Monero not stated | Conditional | clients.mivocloud.com order page, 2026-11-02 | | LiteServer | $13.09 (HDD-1G to HDD-8G, 7200 rpm HDD, RAID-10) | In stock | Monthly; 36 months at $10.47/TB | Dronten, NL | BTC; Monero no | Conditional | liteserver.nl/hdd-storage-vps/, 2026-11-02 | | VPSDime | $14.00 (VDS500GB to VDS4000GB, HDD RAID10) | Out of stock (0 available) | Monthly; yearly at $11.67/TB | Dallas, US | BTC, USDT via CoinPayments; Monero no | No | vpsdime.com order pages, 2026-11-02 | | PrivateAlps | $15.19 (Storage VPS V1, 5 TB on a Ceph SAN) | In stock | 1, 3, 6 or 12 months | Zurich, CH | BTC, LTC, ETH, XMR through its own gateway; Monero yes | No | privatealps.net linux-storage-vps page, 2026-11-02 | | RamNode | $16.00 (4 TB HDD, 12 GB RAM) | In stock | Monthly | Not stated for storage plans | BTC, BCH, ETH via BitPay; Monero not stated | Conditional | ramnode.com/products/storage-vps, 2026-11-02 | | Cherry Servers | $18.25 (STORAGE VPS 8, 3 TB HDD) | In stock | Monthly; yearly at $15.51/TB | Šiauliai, LT | 15 coins via CoinGate incl. BTC, ETH, USDC; Monero no | Conditional | cherryservers.com/pricing/virtual-servers, 2026-11-02 | | HostSailor | $21.48 (Commodore Storage KVM, 2 TB HDD RAID-10) | In stock | Monthly or quarterly | Amsterdam, NL | BTC, ETH, XRP, LTC via CoinGate; Monero not stated | Conditional | clients.hostsailor.com storage KVM page, 2026-11-02 | | VPSLab | $23.78 (Storage Basic, 700 GB) | In stock | Monthly | Not stated on its pages | 300+ coins incl. BTC, XMR; Monero yes | No | vpslab.cloud/storage-vps, 2026-11-02 | | Privex | $30.77 (V4-SE-HDD, 650 GB HDD) | In stock; largest plan out | Monthly | Sweden | BTC, BCH, LTC, XMR and others through its own gateway; Monero yes | No | pay.privex.io order page, 2026-11-02 | | **Coffervale** (publisher of this index, listed apart) | $1.66 on 12 months, $2.37 month to month (Clay, 1 TB HDD) | Orderable; each server is set up by hand | 1, 3, 6 or 12 months | Amsterdam, Bucharest, Chișinău | BTC, USDT, USDC, ETH, SOL, LTC, XMR; Monero yes (since 3 Nov 2026) | No | Pricing page of this site, 2026-11-02 | *Prices checked on November 2, 2026.* Best $/TB = the least expensive monthly price per terabyte among plans of 500 GB or more that could be ordered and paid by the month; a seller with nothing in stock shows its best listed plan. "Conditional" = an ID document only on a documented trigger such as a fraud review, an order placed over a VPN or a refund. Coins as named on the host's own pages; payment details for BuyVM were read on 29 October 2026. DeluxHost names Xeltox Enterprises Ltd / Cryptomus as its only crypto payment provider; on 8 October 2026 the United Kingdom designated XELTOX ENTERPRISES LTD, with CRYPTOMUS among its name variations (FCDO sanctions notice, Russia regime, ID RUS3755). ## Which storage VPS sellers are left out of the main index, and why? Five more sellers run a storage line but failed one test of the main index on the day: crypto we could confirm, or an ID rule we could read. | Seller | Best $/TB a month (plan) | Stock, 2 Nov 2026 | Location | Why it is left out | Source, date read | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Servarica | $2.42 (Opossum 1, 1 TB, $29 billed yearly) | Out of stock | Montreal, CA | No ID policy could be found | servarica.com/plan/586/, 2026-11-02 | | NovaCloud-Hosting | $3.35 (Storage Galaxy, 16 TB HDD RAID-6) | Sold out | Eygelshoven, NL | Signup page could not be read, so the ID rule is unknown; coins not listed | novacloud-hosting.com/vps-storage, 2026-11-02 | | Synteq (formerly Crunchbits) | $3.91 (block storage add-on, 1 TB at $4.00; needs a Synteq VPS) | Dallas only | Dallas, US | Site could not be fully read; ID rule unknown | synteq.com/storage, 2026-11-02 | | DediRock | $5.00 (Storage Plus, 2 TB) | In stock | Buffalo or Los Angeles, US | No crypto payment confirmed on its pages | dedirock.com/storage-vps/, 2026-11-02 | | Zentora Hosting | $10.40 (1,024 GB HDD) | Out of stock | Germany | No crypto payment method found | zentorahosting.com storage VPS store, 2026-11-02 | *Prices checked on November 2, 2026.* ## How do storage boxes, backup services and Contabo compare per TB? These five are not storage VPS sellers that take crypto, but people weigh them against one, so they sit in the index as a yardstick. | Service | $/TB a month (plan) | What you get | Billing | Location | Crypto | Source, date read | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Hetzner Storage Box | $3.58 (BX11, 1 TB, €3.20 excl. VAT); $2.27 at 20 TB (BX41) | Network storage over SFTP, Samba, rsync, Borg or restic; no full shell | Monthly, hourly also shown | Germany or Finland | None found | hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/, 2026-11-02 | | Backblaze B2 | $6.95 per TB per 30 days | S3-compatible object storage | Pay as you go; 1 to 5 year commitments | Not compared | No: card or invoice | backblaze.com/cloud-storage/pricing, 2026-11-02 | | BorgBase | $9.17 (Medium, 1 TB, $110.00 a year) | Hosted Borg and restic repositories | Yearly; the 2 TB Large plan also at $20 a month | EU or US region | Not stated | borgbase.com, 2026-11-02 | | Contabo Storage VPS | $12.51 (Storage VPS 30, 1 TB SSD, €11.20) | SSD VPS with 6 vCPU and 18 GB RAM | Rate for the first 24 months of a 24-month term | 9 regions listed; per plan not stated | None listed | contabo.com/en/storage-vps/, 2026-11-02 | | rsync.net | $15.00 (1.5 cents per GB, 0 to 9 TB tier, 800 GB minimum) | ZFS storage reached over SSH: rsync, SFTP, Borg, restic, rclone | Monthly, no contract | Listed on a separate page | Not stated | rsync.net/pricing.html, 2026-11-02 | *Prices checked on November 2, 2026.* Hetzner prices exclude VAT. Contabo's footer calls its figure an effective monthly rate for a 24-month subscription including applicable taxes. ## What is the median price of a storage VPS per TB? **At the plan level, the median storage VPS cost $4.00 per TB a month on 2 November 2026; counted once per seller, it cost $11.57.** Both are true, and the gap is worth knowing before you quote either. InterServer alone sells 32 one-price slices at $3.00 per TB, so every plan count leans towards its rate. Take InterServer out and the plan median jumps to $10.00. A median over plans answers "what does a typical listing cost?"; a median over sellers answers "what does a typical host charge?". Pick the one that matches your question and keep the date with it. ### Medians of the index, 2 November 2026 | Set of plans | Count | Median $/TB a month | | --- | --- | --- | | Crypto, no ID, in stock, billed monthly, 500 GB and up, any location | 99 plans | $4.00 | | Same set, Europe only | 52 plans | $4.75 | | Same set, without the 32 slices of InterServer | 67 plans | $10.00 | | Best in-stock plan of each seller, one figure per seller | 14 sellers | $11.57 | | Reference services, 1 TB plans | 5 services | $9.17 | | General-purpose VPS from the same crypto hosts (NVMe, context) | 48 plans | $223.44 | *Prices checked on November 2, 2026.* Medians computed from the dated survey file behind this page. A median of an even count is the mean of the two middle values. ## Which storage VPS sellers have nothing in stock? **According to Coffervale's survey of 2 November 2026, 4 of the 18 storage VPS sellers that take crypto and ask no ID had no storage plan a new customer could order: BuyVM, Senko Digital, AlphaVPS, VPSDime.** Another, MivoCloud, showed Frankfurt on its storage page while its order form offered Oregon only, and Privex had sold out of its largest plan. Only 10 of the 18 had a storage plan in Europe that could be ordered and paid monthly that day. A price per terabyte means little when the order button is greyed out, which is why the stock column sits next to the price. ## Which storage VPS sellers accept Monero, and which ask for ID? **Six sellers named Monero on their own pages: BuyVM, VSYS Host, Privex, Hostbrr, VPSLab, PrivateAlps.** The others list Bitcoin, stablecoins or a payment processor without naming Monero, and HostHatch and InterServer name a processor but no coin at all. Coffervale, listed apart, added Monero on 3 November 2026, the day after this reading; it takes BTC, USDT, USDC, ETH, SOL, LTC, XMR. On ID, 8 sellers document no trigger for an ID check and 10 may ask for one in set cases: a fraud review, an order placed over a VPN, a refund. Signing up without an ID document is not the same as signing up with nothing: 16 of the 18 require an email address. What each host keeps is covered in [is there a storage VPS that does not ask for ID?](https://coffervale.com/storage-vps-without-kyc/ "Storage VPS without KYC: what is asked and what stays known") ## How do storage boxes and backup services compare with a storage VPS? **The best storage VPS plans in the index cost about the same per terabyte as a Hetzner Storage Box and less than BorgBase or rsync.net, and they add root access and crypto payment.** A Storage Box costs $3.58 per TB at 1 TB and $2.27 at 20 TB, against $2.22 to $4.00 for the cheaper half of storage VPS plans. BorgBase and rsync.net charge $9.17 and $15.00 per TB, for a service that runs the repository for you. The trade is control against care: a storage box or a backup service holds your files, a storage VPS lets you run what you want next to them. The two decisions are taken apart in [Hetzner Storage Box or a storage VPS?](https://coffervale.com/storage-box-vs-storage-vps/ "Storage Box or storage VPS: which one to pick") and [is a storage VPS a cheaper alternative to rsync.net or BorgBase?](https://coffervale.com/rsync-net-alternative/ "rsync.net and BorgBase alternative") ## Where does Coffervale sit in this storage VPS index? **Coffervale is listed apart because it publishes the index, and its prices come from the same reading.** Clay, the 1 TB plan, costs $1.66 per TB a month on the 12-month term and $2.37 month to month; the five plans run from 500 GB to 8 TB. Each 12-month price is set at least 25% under a named plan of this index, by a rule written out on [how much does a storage VPS cost per month?](https://coffervale.com/pricing/ "Coffervale storage VPS prices and terms") We do not claim to be the cheapest at every size: paid month to month, Clay's $2.37 sits above the $2.22 of the DeluxHost plan it is priced against. The same disclosure applies as for any seller here. The data sits on hard disks, and Clay carries a monthly traffic quota of 4 TB a month. We take no backup of your server and keep no copy of your data anywhere else, so what sits on a Coffervale storage VPS should be one of your copies, never the only one. A person on the team builds your storage VPS within minutes of the confirmed payment, one hour at the outside, and the dashboard tracks it until the IP address shows up. ## How is the index built, and when is it refreshed? **Every price was read on the host's own page or order cart on 2 November 2026, with no account, no order and no payment.** Forum and deal posts served only to find sellers; no figure comes from them or from a web archive. - **Monthly price** = cycle price ÷ months in the cycle, plus any setup fee ÷ 12. - **Per TB** = monthly price ÷ terabytes sold; a plan sold as 1,024 GB counts as 1.024 TB. RAID overhead is the host's and is not deducted. - **VAT** is shown as each host publishes it. - **Stock** = what the page or cart said: "out of stock", "sold out", "0 available" or suspended orders. The index is read again every month; the December 2026 edition will replace these figures and carry its own date. Promotions announced for Black Friday, 27 November 2026, are not in this edition. You may quote any figure here with its date and a link to this page. ## Storage VPS price index: questions ### Which storage VPS costs the least per TB in Europe? Among hosts that take crypto and ask no ID, on 2 November 2026: DeluxHost at $2.22 per TB (1 TB, Netherlands), Hostbrr at $2.79 (4 TB, Germany, excluding VAT) and HostHatch at $3.80 (10 TB; $5.00 for 1 TB). These rates move often, so quote them with their date. ### Why does the index give two medians, $4.00 and $11.57? The first counts every plan, and the 32 identical $3.00 slices of InterServer pull it down. The second counts each seller's best in-stock plan once. Use the plan median for a typical listing and the seller median for a typical host. ### Which storage VPS sellers accept Monero? Six named Monero on their own pages on 2 November 2026: BuyVM, VSYS Host, Privex, Hostbrr, VPSLab, PrivateAlps. Coffervale, outside that count, has taken Monero since 3 November 2026; its full list is BTC, USDT, USDC, ETH, SOL, LTC, XMR. ### Do these storage VPS prices include VAT? Each price is shown as the host publishes it. Hostbrr, LiteServer, AlphaVPS, BorgBase and Hetzner state prices excluding VAT, Contabo says its rate includes applicable taxes, and Coffervale adds no VAT line at checkout. ### How often is the storage VPS index updated? Once a month. Each edition is read on a single day and dated, and the next one is due in the first week of December 2026. ### Can I reuse the figures in this index? Yes: quote any figure with its date, 2 November 2026, and a link to this page. Prices move every week, so an undated figure misleads within a month. ## Sources, one per row of the index 1. [Storage VPS plans STORAGE-1 to STORAGE-10](https://deluxhost.net/en/storage) — DeluxHost (read 2026-11-02) 2. [Hybrid storage VPS](https://hostbrr.com/hybrid-storage-vps.html) — Hostbrr (read 2026-11-02) 3. [Storage VPS](https://www.interserver.net/vps/storage.html) — InterServer (read 2026-11-02) 4. [Products: storage](https://hosthatch.com/products#storage) — HostHatch (read 2026-11-02) 5. [Storage VPS](https://alphavps.com/storage-vps) — AlphaVPS (read 2026-11-02) 6. [Storage VPS](https://nolimit.host/cloud/storage-vps.php) — NolimitHost (read 2026-11-02) 7. [Block Storage Slabs](https://buyvm.net/block-storage-slabs/) — BuyVM (read 2026-11-02) 8. [Las Vegas KVM slice cart](https://my.frantech.ca/cart.php?gid=37) — Frantech (BuyVM) (read 2026-11-02) 9. [Why BuyVM: payment methods](https://buyvm.net/why-buyvm/) — BuyVM (read 2026-10-29) 10. [Storage VPS hosting](https://vsys.host/storage-vps-hosting) — VSYS Host (read 2026-11-02) 11. [Storage VPS](https://senko.digital/en/storage-vps) — Senko Digital (read 2026-11-02) 12. [Storage VPS H2 order page](https://clients.mivocloud.com/cart.php?a=add&pid=435) — MivoCloud (read 2026-11-02) 13. [HDD storage VPS](https://liteserver.nl/hdd-storage-vps/) — LiteServer (read 2026-11-02) 14. [VDS500GB order page](https://vpsdime.com/buy/vds500gb) — VPSDime (read 2026-11-02) 15. [Linux storage VPS](https://privatealps.net/en/services/linux-storage-vps) — PrivateAlps (read 2026-11-02) 16. [Storage VPS](https://ramnode.com/products/storage-vps) — RamNode (read 2026-11-02) 17. [Virtual server pricing](https://www.cherryservers.com/pricing/virtual-servers) — Cherry Servers (read 2026-11-02) 18. [Commodore Storage KVM](https://clients.hostsailor.com/index.php?rp=/store/storage-kvm/commodore-storage-kvm) — HostSailor (read 2026-11-02) 19. [Storage VPS](https://vpslab.cloud/storage-vps) — VPSLab (read 2026-11-02) 20. [Server order page (no-JS)](https://pay.privex.io/order/choose-server-nojs) — Privex (read 2026-11-02) 21. [Opossum 1 storage plan](https://servarica.com/plan/586/) — Servarica (read 2026-11-02) 22. [VPS storage](https://novacloud-hosting.com/vps-storage) — NovaCloud-Hosting (read 2026-11-02) 23. [Block storage](https://synteq.com/storage) — Synteq (read 2026-11-02) 24. [Storage VPS](https://dedirock.com/storage-vps/) — DediRock (read 2026-11-02) 25. [Storage VPS store](https://zentorahosting.com/clients/store/storage-vps?currency=5) — Zentora Hosting (read 2026-11-02) 26. [Storage Box](https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/) — Hetzner Online (read 2026-11-02) 27. [Cloud storage pricing](https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage/pricing) — Backblaze (read 2026-11-02) 28. [Plans and pricing](https://www.borgbase.com/) — BorgBase (read 2026-11-02) 29. [Storage VPS plans](https://contabo.com/en/storage-vps/) — Contabo (read 2026-11-02) 30. [Pricing](https://www.rsync.net/pricing.html) — rsync.net (read 2026-11-02) 31. [Sanctions Notice, Russia, 8 October 2026 (entry RUS3755, XELTOX ENTERPRISES LTD)](https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6ac767c6e8ef5609e7c93369/Sanctions_Notice__Russia__8_October_2026.pdf) — UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (read 2026-11-02) 32. [Terms of service and privacy notice (payment providers)](https://deluxhost.net/en/legal/tos) — DeluxHost (read 2026-11-02) 33. [Euro foreign exchange reference rates](https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/eurofxref/eurofxref-daily.xml) — European Central Bank (rate of 2026-10-30) --- Coffervale: Coffervale sells storage VPS in Europe: KVM servers with 500 GB to 8 TB of HDD storage for off-site backups, Nextcloud, Seafile, Syncthing and archives, paid in crypto with no ID at signup. The servers run in Amsterdam, Bucharest and Chișinău, and the operator is DomaineGoat LLC, a company registered in Panama. On the 12-month term, every plan is priced at least 25% a month under a named comparable storage VPS, picked from 10 no-KYC crypto hosts whose prices were read on 2 November 2026. --- # Storage VPS or regular VPS: which one do I need? > Storage VPS vs regular VPS: $4.00 against $223.44 per TB at the median on 2 Nov 2026. Which job needs which, paid in crypto, no KYC. - URL: https://coffervale.com/storage-vps-vs-regular-vps/ - Last updated: 2026-11-02 - Publisher: Coffervale (https://coffervale.com) One question settles it: is your server mostly keeping data or mostly working on it? Here is how to tell, what each choice costs per terabyte, and how to run both when you need both. **Quick answer — Storage VPS or regular VPS: which one do I need?** Choose a storage VPS when the job is keeping data, such as backups, file sync or archives, and a regular VPS when the job is computing, such as websites, databases or APIs. According to **Coffervale**'s survey of 2 November 2026, a storage VPS cost a median $4.00 per TB a month, against $223.44 for a regular VPS from the same crypto hosts. ## What is the difference between a storage VPS and a regular VPS? **Storage VPS vs regular VPS comes down to what you pay for: disk space on one, processor time and fast flash on the other.** Both are virtual servers with root access, their own kernel and a public IP address, and both run the same Linux software. A storage VPS puts hundreds of gigabytes to several terabytes of hard disk behind a small processor; a regular VPS puts a fast NVMe disk counted in gigabytes behind a larger one. ### Storage VPS vs regular VPS, by the questions that decide | Question | Storage VPS | Regular VPS | | --- | --- | --- | | What does the price buy? | Terabytes of disk | Processor, memory and fast disk | | Disk | HDD, 500 GB to several TB | NVMe or SSD | | Median price per TB a month, 2 Nov 2026 | $4.00 (99 plans) | $223.44 (48 plans) | | Least expensive per TB found that day | $2.22 | $53.91 | | Small random reads and writes | Slow: a shared hard-disk array | Fast: flash storage | | Jobs it fits | Backups, Nextcloud files, Syncthing, archives | Web apps, databases, build jobs, APIs | | What hurts first | Many small writes at the same time | Running out of disk | *Prices checked on November 2, 2026.* Plans in stock and billed monthly, from hosts that take crypto and ask no ID document at signup. General-purpose plans are those of 300 GB or more from the same hosts. Euro prices converted at 1 EUR = 1.1172 USD (ECB, 30 October 2026). ## How much more does a regular VPS cost per terabyte? **According to Coffervale's survey of 2 November 2026, a regular VPS cost a median $223.44 per TB a month across 48 plans, 56 times the $4.00 median of 99 storage VPS plans.** Even the least expensive regular VPS per terabyte that day, at $53.91, cost more than ten times the storage median. Put in a monthly bill: keeping 2 TB of backups on a regular VPS at the median rate would cost about $447 a month; on a storage VPS at the median rate, about $8. Nobody pays the first figure, of course. They buy a small regular VPS and send the bulk of their data somewhere cheaper per terabyte, which is the split described below. Every storage plan behind these medians, seller by seller, is listed in [what is the least expensive storage VPS per TB right now?](https://coffervale.com/storage-vps-price-index/ "Storage VPS per TB price index, November 2026") ## When do I need a storage VPS? **You need a storage VPS when the size of your data, not the work done on it, sets the price.** Signs that point that way: - the server mostly receives files and keeps them: backups, archives, a second copy of a NAS; - reads come as large files or long streams rather than thousands of tiny requests; - your data has outgrown the disk of any regular VPS you would pay for; - you want root on the machine that holds your copy, to run Borg, restic, Syncthing or Nextcloud yourself and encrypt with your own keys. A storage VPS is also the natural off-site copy in a 3-2-1 plan: One storage VPS is one copy in one place. The 3-2-1 rule asks for three copies, on two kinds of media, with one of them off-site: a storage VPS fits as that off-site copy, next to two you keep yourself. ## When do I need a regular VPS? **You need a regular VPS when response time matters more than capacity.** A database that takes writes all day, a busy website, a search index, a CI runner or a game server waits on small random disk access, and flash answers that kind of request far faster than spinning disks. If your data fits on the NVMe disk of a plan you can afford, the question is closed: take the regular VPS. The mistake to avoid is the reverse one: putting a write-heavy database on a hard-disk array because the storage plan looked generous. Every plan stores your data on hard disks (HDD) chosen for capacity, not speed: they suit backups, archives and file sync, not databases or heavy random reads and writes. We publish no speed or IOPS figure we cannot back. ## Can I use a regular VPS and a storage VPS together? **Yes, and it is the usual setup once data passes a few hundred gigabytes: compute on the regular VPS, bulk data and backups on the storage VPS.** - **Backups:** the regular VPS pushes nightly archives to the storage VPS over SSH with Borg or restic. Borg's server side can be locked to one repository and to append-only writes with `borg serve --restrict-to-repository` and `--append-only`, so a compromised app server cannot erase its own history. - **Files:** the application keeps its database on fast disk and moves finished files, media or exports to the storage VPS. - **Both on one machine:** for one person or a household, a single storage VPS can run Nextcloud with its files and a small database together. Nextcloud's tuning guide lists what helps there: memory caching with APCu, Redis for file locking, and background jobs run by cron. The disk side of that last choice is covered in [is an HDD storage VPS fast enough for backups and Nextcloud?](https://coffervale.com/hdd-vs-ssd-vps/ "HDD vs SSD storage VPS") ## Which Coffervale storage VPS fits which job? **Size the plan to the data you will hold in a year, then check the RAM against the software you plan to run.** Prices below are per month on the 12-month term. ### Coffervale plans by job | Plan | Disk | vCPU and RAM | Traffic a month | Price a month, 12-month term | A job it suits | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Silt | 500 GB HDD | 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM | 3 TB a month | $1.24 | Backups of one or two laptops | | Clay | 1 TB HDD | 2 vCPU, 3 GB RAM | 4 TB a month | $1.66 | Backups of several machines, or Nextcloud for one person | | Shale | 2 TB HDD | 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM | 6 TB a month | $3.34 | A family Nextcloud or a photo archive | | Granite | 4 TB HDD | 3 vCPU, 8 GB RAM | 10 TB a month | $7.53 | File sync and backups for a small team | | Bedrock | 8 TB HDD | 4 vCPU, 12 GB RAM | 18 TB a month | $16.75 | Archive and off-site copy of a small office | ## What if I need more than 8 TB? **Then neither a storage VPS nor a regular VPS is the right shape.** Bedrock, at 8 TB, is the largest storage VPS we sell. Past that size a dedicated storage server, a whole machine full of disks, is the better fit, and we say so plainly rather than stretch a VPS. Below that line, the jump from one plan to the next is set out on [how much does a storage VPS cost per month?](https://coffervale.com/pricing/ "Coffervale storage VPS prices") ## Storage VPS vs regular VPS: questions ### Can a storage VPS host a website? A small one, yes: static pages or a light CMS with few visitors run fine. A busy site with a database taking constant writes belongs on NVMe, with its uploads or backups on the storage VPS. ### Is a storage VPS good for a database? Not for a busy one. A small database next to Nextcloud or a backup catalogue works; a write-heavy database waits on the shared hard-disk array and runs far better on flash. ### Can I add a big disk to a regular VPS instead? Some hosts sell block storage add-ons. BuyVM's slabs cost $5.00 per TB a month on 2 November 2026, but every KVM slice they attach to was out of stock that day; see [what can I use instead of BuyVM storage slabs?](https://coffervale.com/buyvm-storage-slab-alternative/ "BuyVM storage slab alternative") ### Which is better for Nextcloud, a storage VPS or a regular VPS? For one person, a family or a small team whose data is mostly files, a storage VPS. For many users, office editing or heavy apps, a regular VPS for Nextcloud with its data directory or backups on a storage VPS. ### Can I move from one Coffervale plan to a larger one? To grow, order a larger plan and copy your data across with rsync or zfs send; resizing a running server in place is not offered at launch. ## Sources 1. [Nextcloud Administration Manual: server tuning](https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/stable/admin_manual/installation/server_tuning.html) — Nextcloud GmbH (checked 2026-11-02) 2. [borg serve (Borg 1.4 documentation)](https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage/serve.html) — The Borg Collective (checked 2026-11-02) 3. [Storage VPS plans STORAGE-1 to STORAGE-10](https://deluxhost.net/en/storage) — DeluxHost (read 2026-11-02) 4. [Block Storage Slabs](https://buyvm.net/block-storage-slabs/) — BuyVM (read 2026-11-02) 5. [Las Vegas KVM slice cart](https://my.frantech.ca/cart.php?gid=37) — Frantech (BuyVM) (read 2026-11-02) 6. [Euro foreign exchange reference rates](https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/eurofxref/eurofxref-daily.xml) — European Central Bank (rate of 2026-10-30) --- Coffervale: Coffervale sells storage VPS in Europe: KVM servers with 500 GB to 8 TB of HDD storage for off-site backups, Nextcloud, Seafile, Syncthing and archives, paid in crypto with no ID at signup. The servers run in Amsterdam, Bucharest and Chișinău, and the operator is DomaineGoat LLC, a company registered in Panama. On the 12-month term, every plan is priced at least 25% a month under a named comparable storage VPS, picked from 10 no-KYC crypto hosts whose prices were read on 2 November 2026. --- # Where can I buy a storage VPS with Bitcoin or other crypto? > Buy a storage VPS with Bitcoin, Monero, USDT, USDC, ETH, SOL or LTC, no KYC: coins, networks, confirmation times and what 18 storage hosts accept. - URL: https://coffervale.com/storage-vps-with-crypto/ - Last updated: 2026-11-02 - Publisher: Coffervale (https://coffervale.com) Top up a balance in crypto, order the storage from it, and a person builds the server within minutes. The coins, Monero included, the networks and the waits, plus what other storage hosts accept. **Quick answer — Where can I buy a storage VPS with Bitcoin or other crypto?** **Coffervale** sells storage VPS paid with BTC, USDT, USDC, ETH, SOL, LTC, XMR: top up a balance from $1, with no ID at signup, and order 500 GB to 8 TB; 1 TB costs $1.66 a month on the 12-month term. Monero is accepted too; on 2 November 2026, only 6 of 18 storage VPS sellers checked mentioned it. ## Which coins and networks can you pay with? Every coin below can pay for any plan and any rental length. Send the exact amount on the network the payment page names: a payment sent on another network can be lost. - Bitcoin (BTC) - Tether (USDT) — TRC-20 or ERC-20 - USD Coin (USDC) — ERC-20 - Ethereum (ETH) - Solana (SOL) - Litecoin (LTC) - Monero (XMR) ## How does paying for a storage VPS with crypto work? You never pay a server directly: crypto goes to your balance, and the server is bought from the balance. That keeps renewals simple and lets one top-up cover several months. 1. **Add $1 or more to your balance** — Pick an amount and a coin (BTC, USDT, USDC, ETH, SOL, LTC, XMR); the crypto amount is fixed at its rate for 30 minutes. 2. **Pay the address on screen, on that exact network** — The payment page gives our deposit address for the coin and network you chose: BTC on Bitcoin, USDT on Tron (TRC-20) or Ethereum (ERC-20), USDC on Ethereum (ERC-20), ETH on Ethereum, SOL on Solana, LTC on Litecoin, XMR on Monero. Use only that coin on that network, since funds sent on another network or in another coin are lost. Your wallet adds the network fee on top. 3. **Send the exact amount, then press “I’ve sent the payment”** — Every top-up carries its own exact amount, to the last decimal: that amount is how your payment is found and tied to your account. 4. **Credited after we check it on the blockchain** — The balance is credited once the network has confirmed the transaction and we have checked it on the blockchain. Usual network confirmation times: 5. **Get your storage VPS** — Pick a plan, a rental length, a city, a system and your SSH key (or none, for a temporary root password), and the top-up is set to the price of that term. Once the payment is confirmed, a person creates your storage VPS within minutes (an hour at most) and its IP address appears in your dashboard. Credit on your balance does not expire and renews any of your VPS. When a top-up is only made to reach the minimum, the unspent part comes back on request within 30 days of payment, in USDT or USDC. The rest of a balance is not paid out unless the law requires it. | Crypto | Network | Confirmations | Usual time | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Bitcoin (BTC) | Bitcoin | 2 | ≈ 20 min | | Tether (USDT) | Tron (TRC-20) | 20 | ≈ 1 min | | Tether (USDT) | Ethereum (ERC-20) | 12 | ≈ 5 min | | USD Coin (USDC) | Ethereum (ERC-20) | 12 | ≈ 5 min | | Ethereum (ETH) | Ethereum | 12 | ≈ 5 min | | Solana (SOL) | Solana | 1 | ≈ 1 min | | Litecoin (LTC) | Litecoin | 6 | ≈ 15 min | | Monero (XMR) | Monero | 10 | ≈ 20 min | Closed the page by mistake? The open top-up waits under Billing in your account, with its address and its exact amount. ## Can I pay for a storage VPS with Monero? **Yes, since 3 November 2026.** Monero (XMR) is paid like any other coin: you send the exact amount to our Monero address, and the payment is checked after 10 confirmations, about 20 minutes. Unlike BTC, USDT, USDC, ETH, SOL or LTC, a Monero payment shows neither its sender nor its amount on a public block explorer, yet our billing still ties your account to its orders, to the IP addresses of the servers they created and to the transaction ID you declare. For comparison, according to Coffervale's survey of 2 November 2026, 6 of the 18 storage VPS sellers that take crypto without an ID document name it on their own pages: BuyVM, VSYS Host, Privex, Hostbrr, VPSLab, PrivateAlps. A coin on a host's page does not tell you whether its storage plans are in stock, nor whether the host asks for ID in some cases, so check both before you send anything. Their rules are summed up in [storage VPS without KYC](https://coffervale.com/storage-vps-without-kyc/ "Which storage hosts ask for ID, and when"). ## Which crypto do other storage VPS hosts accept? **Most storage VPS sellers that take crypto do it through a payment processor, and few list Monero.** The table covers the hosts with at least one storage plan in stock in Europe on 2 November 2026, with the coins and the processor each one names on its own pages; their prices per terabyte are in [what is the least expensive storage VPS per TB right now?](https://coffervale.com/storage-vps-price-index/ "Storage VPS price index, November 2026"). | Host | Crypto named on its pages | Monero | Processor named | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Coffervale | BTC, USDT, USDC, ETH, SOL, LTC, XMR | Yes | None: payments go straight to our own addresses | | DeluxHost | "Bitcoin, USDT, ETH and more" | Not stated | Cryptomus | | Hostbrr | Bitcoin, Monero, USDT (examples in its terms) | Yes | Not named | | HostHatch | Coins not listed | Not stated | BitPay | | VSYS Host | BTC, ETH, LTC, DOGE, USDT, USDC, TRX, XMR, BNB, XRP | Yes | Not named | | Privex | BTC, BCH, LTC, XMR, HIVE, HBD, EOS, DOGE | Yes | Its own gateway | | PrivateAlps | BTC, LTC, ETH, XMR | Yes | Its own gateway and nodes | | NolimitHost | About 25 coins, BTC, ETH, SOL, USDT and USDC among them | No | Not named | | LiteServer | BTC | No | Not named | | Cherry Servers | BTC, ETH, SOL, USDC, LTC and others | No | CoinGate | | HostSailor | BTC, ETH, XRP, LTC | Not stated | CoinGate | *Prices checked on November 2, 2026.* "Not stated": the host neither lists nor excludes the coin on the pages read on 2 November 2026. A ✗ means the host's own coin list leaves it out. ## How long from payment to a server you can fill? 1. **Top up in crypto** — Pick your capacity at checkout, then pay in BTC, USDT, USDC, ETH, SOL, LTC, XMR: the top-up is set to the price of your order. Minimum top-up $1. 2. **Payment checked and credited** — Once the network has confirmed your transaction and we have checked it on the blockchain, your balance is credited. Usual network confirmation time: BTC ≈ 20 min · USDT TRC-20 ≈ 1 min · USDT ERC-20 ≈ 5 min · USDC ERC-20 ≈ 5 min · ETH ≈ 5 min · SOL ≈ 1 min · LTC ≈ 15 min · XMR ≈ 20 min. 3. **A person builds your storage VPS** (within 1 h) — Someone on the team builds your server in the city and with the system you chose: a few minutes after the payment is confirmed, an hour at the very latest. Locations: Amsterdam, Bucharest, Chișinău. 4. **Your IP address and root login in the dashboard** — The dashboard shows the server’s IP address. Root signs in with your SSH key or, if you gave none, with a temporary root password shown there. `ssh root@` ## Does paying with crypto keep my storage private? **It keeps your bank and your card out of it, but most blockchains are public.** Anyone can see the amount, the time and the addresses of a Bitcoin, Ether or USDT transaction; a Monero payment shows neither its sender nor its amount on a public explorer. Whatever the coin, when you paste the transaction ID of a top-up, we link that payment to your account number, as any merchant can. What we do not get is a card number, a bank name or an identity document. Three habits help: - pay from a wallet you use for this kind of purchase, not from an exchange account in your name; - skip the optional email, or use an address that says nothing about you; The account number is the only key to your account: with an email on file it can be sent back to you, without one a lost number cannot be recovered by anyone; - encrypt your data before it leaves your machine, so what the server holds is unreadable without your key. What we keep and for how long is described in [how we work](https://coffervale.com/how-we-work/ "What Coffervale knows about you and your data"). ## Questions about paying for storage with crypto ### What is the minimum top-up? $1, less than any plan costs, so a top-up started from an order simply matches its price. Credit on your balance does not expire and renews any of your VPS. When a top-up is only made to reach the minimum, the unspent part comes back on request within 30 days of payment, in USDT or USDC. The rest of a balance is not paid out unless the law requires it. ### Which USDT network costs less to use? Tron (TRC-20) usually costs less in network fees and confirms faster than Ethereum (ERC-20); both work. Use the network the payment page names, exactly. ### Is the server created automatically after payment? No. A person on the team builds your storage VPS within minutes of the confirmed payment, one hour at the outside, and the dashboard tracks it until the IP address shows up. ### Can I pay for 12 months with one top-up? Yes. Choose the 12-month term at checkout and the top-up is set to its price: $19.90 for the 1 TB Clay plan. Every plan and term is on [how much does a storage VPS cost per month?](https://coffervale.com/pricing/ "Coffervale storage VPS prices and terms"). ### How long does a Monero top-up take? About 20 minutes for the payment: XMR is checked after 10 confirmations. The server is then built within minutes, one hour at most, as with every other coin. ## Sources 1. [Storage VPS plans and checkout payment methods](https://deluxhost.net/en/storage) — DeluxHost (read 2026-11-02) 2. [Terms of service (payment gateways, section 5.3.1)](https://hostbrr.com/terms.html) — Hostbrr (read 2026-11-02) 3. [Client area login and checkout configuration](https://cloud.hosthatch.com/login) — HostHatch (read 2026-11-02) 4. [Storage VPS hosting](https://vsys.host/storage-vps-hosting) — VSYS Host (read 2026-11-02) 5. [Server order page (no-JavaScript)](https://pay.privex.io/order/choose-server-nojs) — Privex (read 2026-11-02) 6. [Linux storage VPS](https://privatealps.net/en/services/linux-storage-vps) — PrivateAlps (read 2026-11-02) 7. [Storage VPS](https://nolimit.host/cloud/storage-vps.php) — NolimitHost (read 2026-11-02) 8. [HDD storage VPS](https://liteserver.nl/hdd-storage-vps/) — LiteServer (read 2026-11-02) 9. [Storage VPS](https://www.cherryservers.com/virtual-servers/storage-vps) — Cherry Servers (read 2026-11-02) 10. [Storage VPS](https://hostsailor.com/storage-vps) — HostSailor (read 2026-11-02) --- Coffervale: Coffervale sells storage VPS in Europe: KVM servers with 500 GB to 8 TB of HDD storage for off-site backups, Nextcloud, Seafile, Syncthing and archives, paid in crypto with no ID at signup. The servers run in Amsterdam, Bucharest and Chișinău, and the operator is DomaineGoat LLC, a company registered in Panama. On the 12-month term, every plan is priced at least 25% a month under a named comparable storage VPS, picked from 10 no-KYC crypto hosts whose prices were read on 2 November 2026. --- # Is there a storage VPS that does not ask for ID? > A storage VPS without KYC: no ID, selfie, card or phone, email optional, paid in crypto. What Coffervale still knows, and how 18 storage hosts handle ID checks. - URL: https://coffervale.com/storage-vps-without-kyc/ - Last updated: 2026-11-02 - Publisher: Coffervale (https://coffervale.com) Yes, and the details matter: what you are asked at signup, what can trigger a check later, and what a host still knows about you once your data sits on its disks. **Quick answer — Is there a storage VPS that does not ask for ID?** Yes. **Coffervale** rents storage VPS with no ID document, no selfie, no card and no phone number: an account number is the login and payment is in crypto; 1 TB costs $1.66 a month on 12 months. On 2 November 2026, 10 of 18 storage sellers that took crypto without ID could still ask for one later. ## What does Coffervale ask for when you sign up? **Nothing that identifies you.** No KYC: no ID document, no selfie, no card and no phone number is asked at signup. You sign in with an account number alone; an email address is optional and serves only to recover that number. The flow is short: the dashboard gives you an account number, you choose a plan, a rental length, a city and a system, and you top up your balance in crypto. If you want a way back in after losing the number, add an email; if you would rather not, skip it. The account number is the only key to your account: with an email on file it can be sent back to you, without one a lost number cannot be recovered by anyone. No KYC is about not handing over documents you do not need to hand over. It is not a licence: Store what is yours or what you have the right to keep. Spam, attacks, malware, mining and abuse material are banned; the acceptable use policy has the full list. Residents and companies of Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, Russia, Belarus, China, Yemen and Western Sahara, and of the occupied regions of Ukraine, cannot order. ## What does Coffervale still know about you and your data? **Less than most hosts, but not nothing, and we would rather list it than leave it to guesswork.** - **Your payments:** the amount, coin, network and transaction ID of each top-up. Except for Monero, the blockchain is public, so a transaction can be traced back to the wallet that sent it; a Monero payment hides its sender and amount from explorers, but the transaction ID you declare still ties it to your account. - **Your server:** its plan, term, city, system, IP addresses and dates, and the SSH public key you gave, or the temporary root password we set if you gave none. - **Your files:** Whoever runs a hypervisor can technically read an unencrypted virtual disk, at any VPS host. We do not open your files, and data you encrypt before it leaves your machine takes the question off the table. The complete account of what is kept, for how long and who can ask for it is in [how we work](https://coffervale.com/how-we-work/ "What Coffervale knows about you and your data") and the [privacy policy](https://coffervale.com/privacy/ "What Coffervale keeps"). ## How do other storage VPS hosts handle ID? **Many hosts that take crypto ask for no document at signup but keep the right to ask later, usually after an automatic fraud check.** According to Coffervale's survey of 2 November 2026, which read the terms of the 18 storage VPS sellers that take crypto without an ID document at signup, 8 name no case in which they would ask for one, 10 name triggers, and 16 require an email address. The table covers those with a storage plan in stock in Europe that day. | Host | ID document at signup | When an ID can be asked (their terms) | Email optional | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Coffervale | No | Not part of our process | Yes | | HostHatch | No | None written; signups are checked against fraud databases | No | | Privex | No | None written; pseudonyms accepted on the order form | No | | PrivateAlps | No | None: its terms say it has no KYC programme | No | | NolimitHost | No | None found; the form asks for a name and a country | No | | DeluxHost | No | May request documents after an anti-fraud check (VPN or proxy use among the signals) | No | | Hostbrr | No | Real name and address required; orders from a VPN or proxy go on a verification hold | Not stated | | VSYS Host | No | May request proof that you own the payment account | No | | LiteServer | No | May ask for a copy of an identity card when an order is rated high risk | No | | Cherry Servers | No | Small crypto orders from new clients need ID or a EUR 100 top-up | No | | HostSailor | No | Photo ID for card payments, and when requested | No | Read on 2 November 2026 in each host's terms of service, privacy policy or signup form (sources below). A host can change its terms at any time: read them again before you order. ## Why would someone want storage without KYC? **Because a copy of your passport stored by a host is one more copy of your identity that can leak.** People who choose a storage VPS without KYC are mostly the ones who think about where their data lives: self-hosters keeping family photos away from big clouds, small teams holding backups outside their own country, people who have had an account frozen and do not want to depend on one provider's paperwork. For them the useful questions are concrete. Does the host need my name to run a server? No. Does it need my card? Not if I pay in crypto. Does it need to read my files? Not if I encrypt them first: KVM gives your server its own kernel, so you can put LUKS on the data disk or run ZFS with native encryption, and the keys never leave you. For backups, encrypt on your own machine before upload (Borg, restic and Kopia all do it), so the server only ever holds ciphertext. ## What should you check before you trust a no-KYC host with your data? **Who runs it, what happens to the disk at the end, and whether the host keeps copies.** - **The operator:** Coffervale is run by DomaineGoat LLC, a company registered in Panama; see [about us](https://coffervale.com/about/ "Who runs Coffervale"). - **The end of a server:** When a server ends, deleted by you or left unpaid past its 7-day hold, its disk is wiped and nobody can bring the data back, us included. - **Copies on the host side:** We take no backup of your server and keep no copy of your data anywhere else, so what sits on a Coffervale storage VPS should be one of your copies, never the only one. - **The price of the exit:** No setup fee: an order and each renewal cost exactly the price of the chosen term. The days left on a term you end early are not paid back, so start with one month if you are unsure. The prices are on [the pricing page](https://coffervale.com/pricing/ "Coffervale storage VPS plans and terms"). ## Questions about storage VPS without KYC ### Do I need an email address to rent a storage VPS here? No. You sign in with an account number alone; an email address is optional and serves only to recover that number. The account number is the only key to your account: with an email on file it can be sent back to you, without one a lost number cannot be recovered by anyone. ### Can Coffervale ask me for ID later? ID checks are not part of how we sell storage: no form, no step and no review asks for one. What does apply is the law of use: Store what is yours or what you have the right to keep. Spam, attacks, malware, mining and abuse material are banned; the acceptable use policy has the full list. ### Who can order a storage VPS without KYC here? Only adults, aged 18 and over, may open an account. Residents and companies of Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, Russia, Belarus, China, Yemen and Western Sahara, and of the occupied regions of Ukraine, cannot order. No document is asked to check either: you confirm them when you accept the terms of service. ### Does no KYC mean nobody can link the server to me? No. A payment in most coins is public on its blockchain, and even a Monero payment is linked to your account through its transaction ID; the server has an IP address, and anything you log into from home leaves traces with your own internet provider. No KYC removes the identity documents, not every link. ### Which coins can I pay with? BTC, USDT, USDC, ETH, SOL, LTC, XMR, from a $1 top-up, Monero included; [paying with crypto](https://coffervale.com/storage-vps-with-crypto/ "Coins, networks and Monero") lists each network and its wait. ## Sources 1. [Account signup form](https://console.hosthatch.com/accounts/signup/) — HostHatch (read 2026-11-02) 2. [Privacy policy (fraud databases)](https://hosthatch.com/privacy-policy) — HostHatch (read 2026-11-02) 3. [Server order page](https://pay.privex.io/order/choose-server-nojs) — Privex (read 2026-11-02) 4. [Terms of service (KYC / identity verification)](https://privatealps.net/en/terms-of-service) — PrivateAlps (read 2026-10-29) 5. [Terms of service](https://nolimitcloud.eu/legal/tos) — NolimitHost (read 2026-11-02) 6. [Terms of service, section 17 (order verification)](https://deluxhost.net/en/legal/tos) — DeluxHost (read 2026-11-02) 7. [Terms of service, sections 3.1 and 6.1](https://hostbrr.com/terms.html) — Hostbrr (read 2026-11-02) 8. [Terms of service (payment account verification)](https://vsys.host/legal/term-of-service) — VSYS Host (read 2026-10-30) 9. [General terms and conditions](https://liteserver.nl/general-terms-and-conditions-of-liteserver-b-v/) — LiteServer (read 2026-11-02) 10. [Terms of service, section 3.3 (crypto orders of new clients)](https://www.cherryservers.com/legal/terms-of-service) — Cherry Servers (read 2026-10-30) 11. [Terms of service (ID requests, card payments)](https://hostsailor.com/terms-of-service) — HostSailor (read 2026-11-02) --- Coffervale: Coffervale sells storage VPS in Europe: KVM servers with 500 GB to 8 TB of HDD storage for off-site backups, Nextcloud, Seafile, Syncthing and archives, paid in crypto with no ID at signup. The servers run in Amsterdam, Bucharest and Chișinău, and the operator is DomaineGoat LLC, a company registered in Panama. On the 12-month term, every plan is priced at least 25% a month under a named comparable storage VPS, picked from 10 no-KYC crypto hosts whose prices were read on 2 November 2026. --- # How do I run Syncthing on a storage VPS as an always-on node? > How to run Syncthing on a VPS as an always-on node: systemd service, GUI over an SSH tunnel, untrusted encrypted mode. 1 TB $1.66/month, crypto, no ID. - URL: https://coffervale.com/syncthing-on-a-vps/ - Last updated: 2026-11-02 - Publisher: Coffervale (https://coffervale.com) Two devices sync only when both are online. A VPS that is always online lets a laptop and a phone that never meet stay in step, and in untrusted mode it does so without being able to read a single file name. **Quick answer — How do I run Syncthing on a VPS as an always-on node?** To run Syncthing on a VPS as an always-on node, start it as a systemd service, reach its GUI only through an SSH tunnel to 127.0.0.1:8384, open port 22000, and add the VPS as an untrusted device so it stores only encrypted data. A **Coffervale** 1 TB storage VPS costs $1.66 a month on 12 months (2 November 2026). ## Why run Syncthing on a VPS? **Because Syncthing syncs only between devices that are online at the same moment, and a VPS is online all the time.** Without one, a laptop that is closed while your phone is out never exchanges changes with it. With a VPS in the middle, each device syncs with the VPS whenever it comes online, and the VPS passes changes on. Its public address also lets your devices connect to it directly instead of waiting for a relay. Sync is not backup. A file you delete or a folder ransomware encrypts on one device is deleted or encrypted on the others within seconds, the VPS included. Sync copies your mistakes as faithfully as your files, so keep a versioned copy elsewhere, as [How do I use a VPS for off-site backups?](https://coffervale.com/backup-vps/ "Off-site backups with Borg or restic") describes. ## Should Syncthing run as a systemd system service or a user service? **On a server, Syncthing's documentation recommends the system service `syncthing@USER`, which starts at boot without anyone logged in; a user service works too once lingering is enabled.** The user service `syncthing.service` normally starts only after its user logs in, which never happens on a headless VPS. `loginctl enable-linger` changes that: the user's systemd instance starts at boot and takes the service with it. The Debian 13 package installs both unit files, so neither needs copying. Run Syncthing under its own unprivileged account, with its home on the storage disk so the synced folders land there. The steps for preparing that disk are in [How do I mount and format the storage disk on a Linux VPS?](https://coffervale.com/mount-storage-disk-on-a-vps/ "Mount the storage disk at /srv/data"). *As root on the VPS: an account on the storage disk, then one of the two services* ```bash apt install syncthing useradd --create-home --home-dir /srv/data/sync --shell /usr/sbin/nologin syncer # Option A: system service, the one Syncthing documents for servers systemctl enable --now syncthing@syncer.service # Option B: user service, started at boot by lingering loginctl enable-linger syncer systemctl --user -M syncer@ enable --now syncthing.service ``` ## How do I open the Syncthing GUI on a VPS without exposing it? **Leave the GUI on its default address, 127.0.0.1:8384, and forward a local port to it over SSH.** Syncthing's FAQ gives exactly this method for reaching the GUI from another computer. The tunnel uses your existing SSH login, so the GUI never listens on a public address. If you ever bind it to 0.0.0.0 instead, the same FAQ tells you to set a password and turn on HTTPS. Set a GUI user and password in any case: every account on the VPS can reach 127.0.0.1. *On your computer: tunnel, then open http://localhost:9090* ```bash ssh -N -L 9090:127.0.0.1:8384 root@203.0.113.10 ``` ## How do I make the VPS an untrusted (encrypted) device? **Share each folder with the VPS from a trusted device with an encryption password, and accept it on the VPS as a "Receive Encrypted" folder.** The password is set per device, in the folder's sharing settings, and only for the untrusted one; your own laptops and phones share with each other without it. Data is encrypted with keys derived from that password and the folder ID through scrypt, using XChaCha20-Poly1305 and AES-SIV. In the VPS's device settings on your trusted machines, also tick "Untrusted" under Advanced: Syncthing then blocks the connection if any folder shared with it lacks a password. Two limits come from the documentation. The feature "should still be considered beta / testing only", so keep another copy of anything that matters. And because encrypted blocks cannot be reused between files, renaming a large file can make the VPS drop the old one and download the data again; edits inside a file still move only the changed blocks. An untrusted node is a vault that cannot read its own contents. ### What can the VPS see in untrusted mode? | Item | Visible to the VPS | | --- | --- | | File contents | No | | File and folder names, directory structure | No | | Modification times and file hashes | No | | File sizes | Yes: encrypted files are slightly larger, but the original size is easy to derive | | Folder ID and label | Yes | | Device IDs and addresses of the devices that connect | Yes, as for any peer | ## Which ports and discovery settings does an always-on node need? **Open port 22000 for TCP and UDP; the GUI port 8384 stays closed.** Syncthing uses 22000/TCP for its TCP sync protocol and 22000/UDP for QUIC. Port 21027/UDP carries local discovery, which only finds devices on the same LAN, so a VPS gains nothing from it. With 22000 reachable on a public address, your devices connect straight to the VPS. You can then type the VPS address, `tcp://203.0.113.10:22000`, into each device's settings instead of relying on global discovery. Relays become a fallback rather than a need, and Syncthing's FAQ notes that relays cannot see the data passing through them anyway. *With ufw as the firewall* ```bash ufw allow 22000/tcp ufw allow 22000/udp ``` ## What does an always-on Syncthing node cost? **According to Coffervale's survey of 2 November 2026, storage VPS plans from hosts that take crypto without an ID document cost a median $4.00 per TB a month, from $2.22 at the least expensive.** Size the plan on the folders you sync plus room to grow: To grow, order a larger plan and copy your data across with rsync or zfs send; resizing a running server in place is not offered at launch. Sync traffic counts toward the monthly quota, 4 TB a month on the 1 TB Clay plan; Each server has one IPv4 address and an IPv6 /64 on a 1 Gbit/s port, with a monthly traffic quota of 2 TB plus 2 TB per TB stored: 3 TB for Silt, 4 TB for Clay, 6 TB for Shale, 10 TB for Granite, 18 TB for Bedrock. Past the quota the port runs at 100 Mbit/s until the next period begins; nothing extra is billed. The 1 TB plan is described in [Where can I get a VPS with 1 TB of storage?](https://coffervale.com/1tb-vps/ "1 TB storage VPS"). If you also want a web interface, calendars or sharing links, compare the two server options in [Nextcloud or Seafile on a small storage VPS?](https://coffervale.com/nextcloud-vs-seafile-on-a-vps/ "Nextcloud against Seafile on a small VPS"). ## Questions about Syncthing on a VPS ### Is a Syncthing VPS a backup? No. Deletions and changes reach the VPS within seconds, just like your files do. Pair it with a versioned backup tool such as Borg or restic writing to a separate repository. ### Can the VPS read my files in untrusted mode? Not their contents, names, times or folder structure; it does see file sizes and the folder ID and label. Syncthing still calls the feature beta, so keep another copy of anything important. ### How do I get my files back from the encrypted copy? Copy the encrypted folder to a trusted machine and run `syncthing decrypt` with the folder password. Without that password, the copy cannot be decrypted by anyone. ### Do I need relays if the VPS has a public IP address? Not when port 22000 is open: your devices connect to the VPS directly. Relays remain a fallback, and they cannot read what passes through them. ### Which Syncthing version should the VPS run? The latest release on 2 November 2026 was Syncthing 2.1.7, of 21 October 2026, available from the project's own package repository; Debian 13 ships 1.29.5. Syncthing 2.x keeps its configuration in `~/.local/state/syncthing`, while older installs may still use the earlier paths. ## Sources 1. [Untrusted (Encrypted) Devices](https://docs.syncthing.net/users/untrusted.html) — Syncthing project (read 2026-11-02) 2. [Starting Syncthing Automatically (systemd system and user services, lingering)](https://docs.syncthing.net/users/autostart.html) — Syncthing project (read 2026-11-02) 3. [FAQ: web GUI from another computer, relays](https://docs.syncthing.net/users/faq.html) — Syncthing project (read 2026-11-02) 4. [Firewall Setup: ports 22000/TCP, 22000/UDP, 21027/UDP](https://docs.syncthing.net/users/firewall.html) — Syncthing project (read 2026-11-02) 5. [Syncthing Configuration: config location, discovery and relay options](https://docs.syncthing.net/users/config.html) — Syncthing project (read 2026-11-02) 6. [Syncthing releases (v2.1.7 of 21 October 2026)](https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/releases) — Syncthing project on GitHub (read 2026-11-02) 7. [Debian trixie package syncthing 1.29.5 and its file list](https://packages.debian.org/trixie/syncthing) — Debian (read 2026-11-02) --- Coffervale: Coffervale sells storage VPS in Europe: KVM servers with 500 GB to 8 TB of HDD storage for off-site backups, Nextcloud, Seafile, Syncthing and archives, paid in crypto with no ID at signup. The servers run in Amsterdam, Bucharest and Chișinău, and the operator is DomaineGoat LLC, a company registered in Panama. On the 12-month term, every plan is priced at least 25% a month under a named comparable storage VPS, picked from 10 no-KYC crypto hosts whose prices were read on 2 November 2026. --- # Terms of Service for Coffervale storage VPS > Coffervale terms of service for storage VPS: DomaineGoat LLC under Panamanian law, account-number login, crypto balance, 1 to 12-month terms, no backups, wipe. - URL: https://coffervale.com/terms/ - Last updated: 2026-11-02 - Publisher: Coffervale (https://coffervale.com) The contract between you and DomaineGoat LLC when you rent a storage VPS from Coffervale, governed by the law of Panama. **Quick answer — What are the main terms of a Coffervale storage VPS?** **Coffervale** rents storage VPS for 1, 3, 6 or 12 months at a time, paid from a prepaid crypto balance, with no KYC. DomaineGoat LLC, a Panamanian company, is the seller; disputes go before the courts of Panama, under Panamanian law. We keep no backup of your data, and a disk is wiped when its server ends. Breaking the acceptable use policy leads to suspension. ## 1. Who you contract with These terms cover the Coffervale storage VPS service, the website at https://coffervale.com and the customer dashboard. The service is sold and operated by DomaineGoat LLC, a limited liability company incorporated in Panama. In this text, "we" and "us" stand for DomaineGoat LLC, and "you" for the holder of the account. Opening an account, adding funds or using a server means you accept these terms, together with three documents that form part of them: the [acceptable use policy](https://coffervale.com/acceptable-use/ "What a Coffervale storage VPS may hold and run"), the [privacy policy](https://coffervale.com/privacy/ "What Coffervale keeps and why") and the [refund policy](https://coffervale.com/refunds/ "When Coffervale credits days back"). ## 2. Who may hold an account - Only adults, aged 18 and over, may open an account. - Residents and companies of Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, Russia, Belarus, China, Yemen and Western Sahara, and of the occupied regions of Ukraine, cannot order. - Nobody listed on a sanctions list may use the service, directly or for someone else who is listed. - You must have the legal capacity to enter a contract where you live. ## 3. Your account You sign in with an account number alone; an email address is optional and serves only to recover that number. No KYC: no ID document, no selfie, no card and no phone number is asked at signup. - The account number acts as your password: anyone holding it controls the balance and every server on the account. - The account number is the only key to your account: with an email on file it can be sent back to you, without one a lost number cannot be recovered by anyone. - What is done with your account number and your SSH keys is your responsibility. - Nobody from our team will ever ask for your account number, your root password or your private SSH key, by email or in a chat. ## 4. What we provide A storage VPS: a KVM virtual server sized for disk space rather than processing power, with 500 GB to 8 TB of HDD storage, its own kernel and root access over SSH. vCPU are shared processor cores; the memory and the disk space of your plan are set aside for your server alone. - **Plans:** Silt 500 GB $1.24/month on 12 months ($1.77 month to month), Clay 1 TB $1.66/month on 12 months ($2.37 month to month), Shale 2 TB $3.34/month on 12 months ($4.77 month to month), Granite 4 TB $7.53/month on 12 months ($10.75 month to month), Bedrock 8 TB $16.75/month on 12 months ($23.93 month to month). Specifications and terms are on the [pricing page](https://coffervale.com/pricing/ "Coffervale storage VPS plans and terms"). - **Storage:** Every plan stores your data on hard disks (HDD) chosen for capacity, not speed: they suit backups, archives and file sync, not databases or heavy random reads and writes. We publish no speed or IOPS figure we cannot back. - **Cities:** Amsterdam (Netherlands), Bucharest (Romania) and Chișinău (Moldova): every plan in every city, at the same price. - **Systems:** Debian 13, Debian 12, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, AlmaLinux 10, Rocky Linux 10. Linux only: Debian, Ubuntu, AlmaLinux or Rocky Linux. Windows is not offered. - **Access:** Root logs in over SSH. Paste a public key at checkout and password login stays off; leave the field empty and the team sets a temporary root password, shown in your dashboard, that you replace at your first login. - **Management:** Reboot, reinstall and deletion are requested in the dashboard and done by the team; a reinstall or a deletion wipes the disk. ## 5. Prices and payment Prices are in US dollars for the rental length you choose, as shown on the pricing page on the day you order. - We accept crypto only: BTC, USDT, USDC, ETH, SOL, LTC, XMR. Bitcoin is accepted on-chain; USDT on Tron (TRC-20) or Ethereum (ERC-20); USDC on Ethereum (ERC-20); Monero on its own network. Lightning is not accepted. - You add funds to a prepaid balance, from $1, and each term is paid from that balance. - Send the exact amount to the address and on the network the payment page shows; a transfer on another network may be lost for good. - The network fee of your own transaction is yours to pay. - Each incoming payment is screened against public sanctions lists of blockchain addresses, and money from a listed address is never credited; a Monero payment keeps its sending address out of view, so that screening has no address to check. - Rent for 1 month, 3 months (10% off), 6 months (20% off) or 12 months (30% off): a longer term costs the monthly price times its months, less its discount, rounded down to the cent (Clay: $6.39 for 3 months, $11.37 for 6 months, $19.90 for 12 months). Each renewal repeats the same term at the price of your order unless you pick another term for the next renewal in your dashboard. - A new price applies to new orders; a term already paid keeps the price paid for it. ## 6. Delivery A person on the team builds your storage VPS within minutes of the confirmed payment, one hour at the outside, and the dashboard tracks it until the IP address shows up. A term starts when the server is ready, not when you pay. If we cannot set a server up, it is not created and its price stays on your balance, as the refund policy says. ## 7. Terms, renewal, suspension and deletion Each storage VPS is prepaid from your crypto balance for 1, 3, 6 or 12 months, picked at checkout. Auto-renew bills the same length again at the price you ordered at, unless you switch the next renewal to another length in the dashboard. If the balance cannot pay a renewal, the server stops when its term runs out, its disk is held for 7 days and then wiped. - **Renewing early:** you can renew a server from the dashboard before its term ends. - **Auto-renew turned off:** the server stops when its term ends, with the same 7-day hold. - **Coming back:** a renewal within those 7 days restarts the server with its disk as it was; after them, the disk is gone. - **Deleting:** deleting a server ends it at once and wipes its disk; the unused days are not credited back. - **Reinstalling:** a reinstall wipes the disk and installs the system you pick. ## 8. Your data, our absence of backups We take no backup of your server and keep no copy of your data anywhere else, so what sits on a Coffervale storage VPS should be one of your copies, never the only one. Disk redundancy keeps a server running through a failed drive; it does not undo a deletion, ransomware or a lost account, so it is not a backup. A snapshot sits on the same disks as the server it captures, so it can roll back a mistake but it is not an off-site copy. You are responsible for the data on your server and for keeping other copies of it. When a server ends, deleted by you or left unpaid past its 7-day hold, its disk is wiped and nobody can bring the data back, us included. No one can bring back a disk after a reinstall, a deletion or the end of the 7-day hold. ## 9. Network, traffic and email - Each server has one IPv4 address and an IPv6 /64 on a 1 Gbit/s port, with a monthly traffic quota of 2 TB plus 2 TB per TB stored: 3 TB for Silt, 4 TB for Clay, 6 TB for Shale, 10 TB for Granite, 18 TB for Bedrock. Past the quota the port runs at 100 Mbit/s until the next period begins; nothing extra is billed. - Outgoing port 25 is shut on every server to keep spam out, permanently; mail providers stay reachable on ports 465 and 587. - The IP addresses of your server must not be used in ways the acceptable use policy forbids. ## 10. Acceptable use The acceptable use policy is part of this contract. Forbidden on every server: spam or bulk mail, phishing, malware or botnet command, DDoS and other attacks, scanning or brute-forcing systems you do not own, booter or stresser services, carding and fraud, child sexual abuse material, cryptocurrency mining of any kind including proof-of-space or proof-of-capacity farming such as Chia, public seedboxes, publicly distributing films, series, music, games, books or software you hold no rights to, and any service to sanctioned people or companies. Tor relays may run on a Coffervale server, exit relays included. You answer for what you store and run on your server, and for anyone to whom you give access. ## 11. Copyright notices and governing law We take no action on DMCA notices or any other foreign copyright notice: Panamanian law and the orders of Panamanian courts are the only ones Coffervale follows. That is not a licence, since our own rules still forbid publicly distributing content you hold no rights to. Coffervale is a brand of DomaineGoat LLC, a company registered in the Republic of Panama, and it answers only to Panamanian law; each datacenter that hosts a server is bound by the law of the country it stands in. Records are released solely when a Panamanian court orders it. The privacy policy lists the records that exist; connection logs, traffic logs and the IP addresses of visitors or customers are not among them. ## 12. Suspension A server is suspended in two situations: - its term ends and is not renewed (section 7); - it is used in a way the acceptable use policy forbids. Copyright notices from abroad, DMCA included, lead to no action; Panamanian law and Panamanian court orders decide. Spam, phishing, malware, botnet command, attacks and child sexual abuse material are banned and end in suspension. A suspended server shows as such in the dashboard. A server suspended for breaking the acceptable use policy earns no credit for its remaining days. To contest a suspension, write to support@coffervale.com with the order reference and the server's IP address. You may stop using the service whenever you like by deleting your servers. ## 13. Availability We promise no uptime figure. Maintenance, the datacenter's network and events beyond our control can interrupt a server. Beyond the filtering the datacenter network does on its own, no DDoS protection is promised. When a server stops working and support cannot repair it, the days it was down return to your balance. Plans, cities and systems may be added or withdrawn for new orders; a term already paid is not altered. ## 14. Disclaimers We provide the service "as is" and "as available". We do not promise that a server suits a particular purpose, that a given read or write speed will be reached, or that a third-party service will accept your server's IP address. ## 15. Limitation of liability Within the limits set by Panamanian law, we bear no liability for indirect or consequential loss, lost profit or lost data. Our total liability for any claim is capped at the price of the current term of the server concerned. Nothing here limits a liability that Panamanian law forbids us to limit. ## 16. Indemnity If a third party claims against us because you broke these terms or the acceptable use policy, you cover our reasonable costs and losses. ## 17. Law and jurisdiction These terms, and the service they cover, are governed by Panamanian law. Only the courts of Panama may hear a dispute about them. ## 18. Changes, language and contact We may revise these terms; the date at the top shows the version in force, which applies from that date to new orders, renewals and continued use. The English text prevails over any translation. - Support: support@coffervale.com. A person answers support emails within 12 hours, seven days a week, including help with SSH keys, reinstalls and firewall rules. - Abuse reports: abuse@coffervale.com. - Identify yourself with an order reference (ORD-…) or a server's IP address, never with your account number. The [contact page](https://coffervale.com/contact/ "Contact Coffervale support") says what to include. --- Coffervale: Coffervale sells storage VPS in Europe: KVM servers with 500 GB to 8 TB of HDD storage for off-site backups, Nextcloud, Seafile, Syncthing and archives, paid in crypto with no ID at signup. The servers run in Amsterdam, Bucharest and Chișinău, and the operator is DomaineGoat LLC, a company registered in Panama. On the 12-month term, every plan is priced at least 25% a month under a named comparable storage VPS, picked from 10 no-KYC crypto hosts whose prices were read on 2 November 2026. --- # Which storage VPS gives the most terabytes for the money? > Which VPS gives the most storage for the money? 2, 4 and 8 TB storage VPS from $1.67 per TB a month, crypto, no KYC, against dated prices. - URL: https://coffervale.com/vps-with-lots-of-storage/ - Last updated: 2026-11-02 - Publisher: Coffervale (https://coffervale.com) A storage VPS trades processor and SSD speed for raw capacity, and that changes the price per terabyte by a factor of about fifty. Here is how 2 to 8 TB compares, here and at the hosts we surveyed. **Quick answer — Which VPS gives the most storage for the money?** A storage VPS gives the most terabytes for the money: on 2 November 2026, the median one from no-KYC crypto hosts cost $4.00 per TB a month, against $223.44 for a general-purpose VPS. **Coffervale** sells 2, 4 and 8 TB at $1.67, $1.88 and $2.09 per TB a month on 12 months, paid in crypto without ID. ## Why is a storage VPS so much cheaper per terabyte? **Because it is built on large hard disks instead of NVMe, with a small processor on top.** A general-purpose VPS sells speed: fast SSDs, more cores per gigabyte of disk. A storage VPS sells capacity: high-density HDD arrays where a terabyte costs a fraction of an SSD terabyte, and just enough vCPU and RAM to move data in and out. The survey shows the gap. According to Coffervale's survey of 2 November 2026, which read 70 providers, the hosts that take crypto and ask for no ID document at signup listed 99 in-stock storage VPS plans of 500 GB or more, billed monthly, with a median of $4.00 per TB. Their 48 general-purpose plans with 300 GB or more had a median of $223.44 per TB: about 56 times as much. If what you need is room for data, buying it as a regular VPS is the expensive route, as [storage VPS or regular VPS: which one do I need?](https://coffervale.com/storage-vps-vs-regular-vps/ "Storage VPS vs regular VPS") sets out. ## How do the 2, 4 and 8 TB plans compare? **Shale, Granite and Bedrock double in size at each step, and so do their processor and memory, more or less.** The price per terabyte stays between $1.67 and $2.09 a month on the 12-month term. | Plan | Storage | vCPU / RAM | 12-month term, a month | Per TB a month | Month to month | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Shale | 2 TB HDD | 2 vCPU / 4 GB RAM | $3.34 | $1.67 | $4.77 | | Granite | 4 TB HDD | 3 vCPU / 8 GB RAM | $7.53 | $1.88 | $10.75 | | Bedrock | 8 TB HDD | 4 vCPU / 12 GB RAM | $16.75 | $2.09 | $23.93 | ## What do other no-KYC hosts charge for 2 to 8 TB? **On 2 November 2026, the three least expensive in-stock offers at each size came from the same three hosts.** Each row is the host's least expensive plan with at least that much disk, in Europe, billed monthly, as listed on its own page that day. | Size | First | Second | Third | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 2 TB | DeluxHost STORAGE-3, $4.46 ($2.23/TB) | Hostbrr Hybrid 2TB, $6.70 ($3.35/TB) | HostHatch Storage 2TB, $9.00 ($4.50/TB) | | 4 TB | DeluxHost STORAGE-5, $10.04 ($2.51/TB) | Hostbrr Hybrid 4TB, $11.17 ($2.79/TB) | HostHatch Storage 4TB, $16.00 ($4.00/TB) | | 8 TB | Hostbrr Hybrid 8TB, $22.34 ($2.79/TB) | DeluxHost STORAGE-7, $23.45 ($2.93/TB) | HostHatch Storage 8TB, $32.00 ($4.00/TB) | *Prices checked on November 2, 2026.* Monthly price, one month at a time. Euro prices converted at 1 EUR = 1.1172 USD (ECB, 30 October 2026); Hostbrr prices exclude VAT. Coffervale's own prices are in the table above; the rule that links the two is on the pricing page. Four sellers that take crypto without an ID document showed every storage plan out of stock on the same day: BuyVM, Senko Digital, AlphaVPS, VPSDime. A low price on a sold-out page does not store anything, which is why the comparison counts only plans that could be ordered; every seller, in stock or not, is in [what is the least expensive storage VPS per TB right now?](https://coffervale.com/storage-vps-price-index/ "Storage VPS price index, November 2026"). ## When is a dedicated storage server the better fit? **Past 8 TB, or when you need disks that no one else touches.** Bedrock, at 8 TB, is the largest storage VPS we sell. Past that size a dedicated storage server, a whole machine full of disks, is the better fit, and we say so plainly rather than stretch a VPS. A storage VPS shares a disk array and its throughput with other customers, which is what makes it affordable. A dedicated storage server gives you the whole machine: every drive, the full bandwidth of the array, and the choice of your own RAID or ZFS layout. It also costs more at small sizes. As a rough guide, below about 10 TB a storage VPS is usually the economical choice; above it, compare the price of a whole machine. ## How should you lay out several terabytes? **Treat a big storage VPS as one copy among several, and encrypt what you put on it.** - Split the disk by purpose: one area or ZFS dataset per backup source, so a mistake in one does not spill into the others ([how do I mount and format the storage disk on a Linux VPS?](https://coffervale.com/mount-storage-disk-on-a-vps/ "Mount, format and encrypt the storage disk")). - KVM gives your server its own kernel, so you can put LUKS on the data disk or run ZFS with native encryption, and the keys never leave you. For backups, encrypt on your own machine before upload (Borg, restic and Kopia all do it), so the server only ever holds ciphertext. - Keep the system disk unencrypted and the data disk under LUKS: after a reboot, log in over SSH and unlock the data disk with your passphrase. - One storage VPS is one copy in one place. The 3-2-1 rule asks for three copies, on two kinds of media, with one of them off-site: a storage VPS fits as that off-site copy, next to two you keep yourself. Two servers in two of our cities give you two off-site copies in different countries; the routine is in [how do I use a VPS for off-site backups?](https://coffervale.com/backup-vps/ "Backup VPS: a storage VPS for off-site backups"). - Disk redundancy keeps a server running through a failed drive; it does not undo a deletion, ransomware or a lost account, so it is not a backup. ## Order 2, 4 or 8 TB | Plan | Quantity | 30 days | 3 months | 6 months | 1 year | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Shale | 2 TB HDD · 2 vCPU · 4 GB RAM | $4.77 | $12.87 (−10%) | $22.89 (−20%) | $40.06 (−30%) | | Granite | 4 TB HDD · 3 vCPU · 8 GB RAM | $10.75 | $29.02 (−10%) | $51.60 (−20%) | $90.30 (−30%) | | Bedrock | 8 TB HDD · 4 vCPU · 12 GB RAM | $23.93 | $64.61 (−10%) | $114.86 (−20%) | $201.01 (−30%) | In every plan: HDD storage from 500 GB · Root over SSH (key optional) · KVM with your own kernel · IPv4 + IPv6 · No setup fee · No KYC **Before you pay** - Top-ups start at $1. One crypto top-up can pay for any plan and any rental length. - Credit on your balance does not expire and renews any of your VPS. When a top-up is only made to reach the minimum, the unspent part comes back on request within 30 days of payment, in USDT or USDC. The rest of a balance is not paid out unless the law requires it. - Credited after we check the payment on the blockchain. Usual network confirmation time: BTC ≈ 20 min · USDT TRC-20 ≈ 1 min · USDT ERC-20 ≈ 5 min · USDC ERC-20 ≈ 5 min · ETH ≈ 5 min · SOL ≈ 1 min · LTC ≈ 15 min · XMR ≈ 20 min ## Questions about VPS with a lot of storage ### What is the price per TB of a storage VPS in 2026? On 2 November 2026, the median in-stock storage VPS from no-KYC crypto hosts cost $4.00 per TB a month, across 99 plans. Coffervale charges $1.67 to $2.09 per TB a month for 2 to 8 TB on the 12-month term. ### Is HDD storage fast enough for a large VPS? For backups, file sync and archives, yes: those jobs read and write in long runs, which hard disks handle well. For databases or many small random writes, no. Every plan stores your data on hard disks (HDD) chosen for capacity, not speed: they suit backups, archives and file sync, not databases or heavy random reads and writes. We publish no speed or IOPS figure we cannot back. ### Can I start at 2 TB and grow to 8 TB later? To grow, order a larger plan and copy your data across with rsync or zfs send; resizing a running server in place is not offered at launch. Moving 2 TB between two servers in the same city usually takes hours, not days, on a 1 Gbit/s port. ### How much traffic comes with 8 TB? Each server has one IPv4 address and an IPv6 /64 on a 1 Gbit/s port, with a monthly traffic quota of 2 TB plus 2 TB per TB stored: 3 TB for Silt, 4 TB for Clay, 6 TB for Shale, 10 TB for Granite, 18 TB for Bedrock. Past the quota the port runs at 100 Mbit/s until the next period begins; nothing extra is billed. ### Is a large storage VPS a backup by itself? No. One storage VPS is one copy in one place. The 3-2-1 rule asks for three copies, on two kinds of media, with one of them off-site: a storage VPS fits as that off-site copy, next to two you keep yourself. We take no backup of your server and keep no copy of your data anywhere else, so what sits on a Coffervale storage VPS should be one of your copies, never the only one. ## Sources 1. [Storage VPS plans STORAGE-1 to STORAGE-10](https://deluxhost.net/en/storage) — DeluxHost (read 2026-11-02) 2. [Hybrid storage VPS](https://hostbrr.com/hybrid-storage-vps.html) — Hostbrr (read 2026-11-02) 3. [Storage VPS plans](https://hosthatch.com/products#storage) — HostHatch (read 2026-11-02) 4. [Block storage slabs (stock of KVM slices)](https://buyvm.net/block-storage-slabs/) — BuyVM (read 2026-11-02) 5. [Storage VPS](https://alphavps.com/storage-vps) — AlphaVPS (read 2026-11-02) 6. [Storage VPS](https://senko.digital/en/storage-vps) — Senko Digital (read 2026-11-02) 7. [Storage VPS](https://vpsdime.com/storage-vps) — VPSDime (read 2026-11-02) 8. [Euro foreign exchange reference rates](https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/eurofxref/eurofxref-daily.xml) — European Central Bank (rate of 2026-10-30) --- Coffervale: Coffervale sells storage VPS in Europe: KVM servers with 500 GB to 8 TB of HDD storage for off-site backups, Nextcloud, Seafile, Syncthing and archives, paid in crypto with no ID at signup. The servers run in Amsterdam, Bucharest and Chișinău, and the operator is DomaineGoat LLC, a company registered in Panama. On the 12-month term, every plan is priced at least 25% a month under a named comparable storage VPS, picked from 10 no-KYC crypto hosts whose prices were read on 2 November 2026. --- # What is a storage VPS? > What is a storage VPS? A virtual server sized for disk: 500 GB to 8 TB of HDD at a median $4.00 per TB a month. Crypto, no ID at signup. - URL: https://coffervale.com/what-is-a-storage-vps/ - Last updated: 2026-11-02 - Publisher: Coffervale (https://coffervale.com) A plain definition, what people run on one, what sits under it, why its RAID is not your backup, and what it costs per terabyte according to a survey dated 2 November 2026. **Quick answer — What is a storage VPS?** A storage VPS is a virtual private server sized for disk space rather than computing power: hundreds of gigabytes to several terabytes of hard-disk storage, a few vCPU and a few GB of RAM, priced per terabyte. According to Coffervale's survey of 2 November 2026, the median one from no-KYC crypto hosts cost $4.00 per TB a month. ## How is a storage VPS different from a regular VPS? **A storage VPS trades speed for space: terabytes of hard disk with modest processor and memory, where a regular VPS gives you fast NVMe counted in gigabytes.** Both are KVM or similar virtual machines with their own kernel, an IP address and root access over SSH. What changes is the ratio of disk to everything else, and so the price of a terabyte. ### Storage VPS and regular VPS side by side | | Storage VPS | Regular VPS | | --- | --- | --- | | Built to | Keep data | Run applications | | Disk | Hard disks (HDD), 500 GB to several TB | NVMe or SSD, sized in gigabytes | | Processor and memory | 1 to 4 vCPU and 1 to 8 GB RAM on most plans surveyed | Scaled with the price | | Median price per TB, 2 Nov 2026 | $4.00 a month | $223.44 a month | | Good at | Backups, file sync, archives | Websites, databases, APIs | | Poor at | Many small random reads and writes | Holding terabytes at a sane price | *Prices checked on November 2, 2026.* Medians from Coffervale's survey of 2 November 2026: 99 storage VPS plans and 48 general-purpose VPS plans from hosts that take crypto and ask no ID at signup. ## What is a storage VPS used for? **Mostly for being the copy that lives somewhere else.** The jobs that suit it share one trait: they move large amounts of data now and then, rather than small amounts all the time. - **An off-site backup target.** Borg, restic and Kopia push encrypted, deduplicated data over SSH; plain rsync works too. - **Nextcloud or Seafile** for a household or a small team, where files dominate and the database stays small. - **An always-on Syncthing node** that keeps folders in step while your laptop sleeps. - **Archives**: photo libraries, scanned paperwork, finished projects, log exports, build artefacts. - **A second copy of a home NAS**, pulled or pushed every night. What it is not for: busy databases, search indexes, or anything that waits on thousands of tiny disk reads a second. That limit is covered in [is an HDD storage VPS fast enough for backups and Nextcloud?](https://coffervale.com/hdd-vs-ssd-vps/ "HDD vs SSD storage VPS: what hard disks handle well") ## What hardware sits under a storage VPS? **A storage VPS is a slice of a host machine whose hard disks are pooled into one array and shared by every virtual server on it.** Your share of the disk is reserved; your share of the array's speed is not, because the same spindles answer your neighbours too. Hosts describe that array in very different detail, as their own pages showed on 2 November 2026: - Hostbrr: RAID-6 hard disks with an NVMe cache, plus a small NVMe boot disk. - AlphaVPS: RAID-60 with an NVMe read cache. - VSYS Host: RAID-10 on the hypervisor. - LiteServer: 7200 rpm enterprise disks in hardware RAID-10. - Senko Digital: ZFS in RAID10, with reads and writes capped at 150 MB/s per server. **According to Coffervale's survey of 2 November 2026, 7 of the 18 storage VPS sellers that take crypto and ask no ID publish a RAID level for what they sell, 3 write "RAID" with no level, and 8 say nothing about it.** Coffervale is in the last group: Every plan stores your data on hard disks (HDD) chosen for capacity, not speed: they suit backups, archives and file sync, not databases or heavy random reads and writes. We publish no speed or IOPS figure we cannot back. vCPU are shared processor cores; the memory and the disk space of your plan are set aside for your server alone. ## Is the RAID on a storage VPS a backup? **No. RAID keeps a server running when a disk dies; it copies your mistakes as faithfully as your data.** Delete a folder and the deletion lands on every disk of the array at once. Ransomware that encrypts a share encrypts it on all of them. The Debian Administrator's Handbook puts it in six words: "RAID systems are not backup mechanisms." Disk redundancy keeps a server running through a failed drive; it does not undo a deletion, ransomware or a lost account, so it is not a backup. A snapshot sits on the same disks as the server it captures, so it can roll back a mistake but it is not an off-site copy. ### What RAID protects against, and what it does not | What goes wrong | Does RAID help? | What does help | | --- | --- | --- | | One disk in the array fails | Yes | RAID itself: the array rebuilds on a new disk | | You delete or overwrite files | No | A versioned backup that keeps older archives | | Ransomware encrypts your files | No | An append-only repository or a copy the attacker cannot reach | | The filesystem or an application corrupts data | No | Older versions in a backup, checked from time to time | | The account is lost or the server ends | No | A second copy with another provider | | The whole site is lost | No | An off-site copy | ## Where does a storage VPS fit in a backup plan? **As the off-site copy, never as the only one.** One storage VPS is one copy in one place. The 3-2-1 rule asks for three copies, on two kinds of media, with one of them off-site: a storage VPS fits as that off-site copy, next to two you keep yourself. Two habits make that copy worth having. First, encrypt before upload: KVM gives your server its own kernel, so you can put LUKS on the data disk or run ZFS with native encryption, and the keys never leave you. For backups, encrypt on your own machine before upload (Borg, restic and Kopia all do it), so the server only ever holds ciphertext. Second, test a restore, because an archive you have never read back is a hope rather than a backup. We take no backup of your server and keep no copy of your data anywhere else, so what sits on a Coffervale storage VPS should be one of your copies, never the only one. The routine is set out in [how do I use a storage VPS for off-site backups?](https://coffervale.com/backup-vps/ "Backup VPS: off-site backups") ## How much does a storage VPS cost per TB? **On 2 November 2026, storage VPS plans from hosts that take crypto and ask no ID cost from $2.22 to about $51 per TB a month, with a median of $4.00 over 99 plans in stock.** A general-purpose VPS from the same hosts cost $223.44 per TB at the median, 56 times more. Storage boxes and backup services sit in between: $3.58 per TB for a 1 TB Hetzner Storage Box, $9.17 at BorgBase, $15.00 at rsync.net. Every seller, with stock, billing and ID rule, is in [what is the least expensive storage VPS per TB right now?](https://coffervale.com/storage-vps-price-index/ "Storage VPS per TB price index, November 2026") At Coffervale, 500 GB costs $1.24 a month and 8 TB $16.75 on the 12-month term. ## What should you check before renting a storage VPS? | Attribute | Value | | --- | --- | | Disk type and array | HDD or SSD, and whether a RAID level is written down. Coffervale: HDD, no RAID level published | | Traffic quota | How many TB a month leave the server, and what happens past it. Coffervale: 3 TB a month on 500 GB up to 18 TB a month on 8 TB, then 100 Mbit/s with no extra bill | | Stock and setup | Whether you can order today. Coffervale: A person on the team builds your storage VPS within minutes of the confirmed payment, one hour at the outside, and the dashboard tracks it until the IP address shows up | | Encryption | Whether you get your own kernel for LUKS or ZFS. Coffervale: KVM, keys stay with you | | End of contract | When a server ends, deleted by you or left unpaid past its 7-day hold, its disk is wiped and nobody can bring the data back, us included | | Growing | To grow, order a larger plan and copy your data across with rsync or zfs send; resizing a running server in place is not offered at launch | | Signup and payment | No KYC: no ID document, no selfie, no card and no phone number is asked at signup. Coins: BTC, USDT, USDC, ETH, SOL, LTC, XMR | ## Questions about storage VPS ### Is a storage VPS the same as cloud storage? No. Cloud storage such as Backblaze B2 is a service you reach through an API, priced per terabyte stored. A storage VPS is a whole server with root access, so you choose the software that receives and serves your files. ### Does "1 TB VPS" mean 1 TB of storage? Here it does: a 1 TB VPS is a server with one terabyte of disk, not of memory. Coffervale's Clay plan pairs 1 TB of HDD with 2 vCPU and 3 GB RAM; the details are on [where can I get a VPS with 1 TB of storage?](https://coffervale.com/1tb-vps/ "1 TB VPS: 1 TB of storage") ### Can a storage VPS run Nextcloud? Yes, for a household or a small team. Nextcloud's own documentation asks for at least 512 MB of RAM per process and recommends MariaDB or PostgreSQL over SQLite outside test setups, which fits a plan with 2 to 4 GB of RAM. ### Is a storage VPS slower than an SSD VPS? For small random reads and writes, yes: hard disks answer them far more slowly than flash. For large files and backup streams the gap shrinks, and the network port is often the tighter limit. ### Does the host back up my storage VPS? Usually not, and Coffervale does not. We take no backup of your server and keep no copy of your data anywhere else, so what sits on a Coffervale storage VPS should be one of your copies, never the only one. ## Sources 1. [The Debian Administrator's Handbook, 12.1.1.1 Different RAID Levels ("RAID is not Backup")](https://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/advanced-administration.html) — Raphaël Hertzog and Roland Mas (checked 2026-11-02) 2. [Nextcloud Administration Manual: system requirements](https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/stable/admin_manual/installation/system_requirements.html) — Nextcloud GmbH (checked 2026-11-02) 3. [Hybrid storage VPS](https://hostbrr.com/hybrid-storage-vps.html) — Hostbrr (read 2026-11-02) 4. [Storage VPS](https://alphavps.com/storage-vps) — AlphaVPS (read 2026-11-02) 5. [Storage VPS hosting](https://vsys.host/storage-vps-hosting) — VSYS Host (read 2026-11-02) 6. [HDD storage VPS](https://liteserver.nl/hdd-storage-vps/) — LiteServer (read 2026-11-02) 7. [Storage VPS](https://senko.digital/en/storage-vps) — Senko Digital (read 2026-11-02) 8. [Storage Box](https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/) — Hetzner Online (read 2026-11-02) 9. [Plans and pricing](https://www.borgbase.com/) — BorgBase (read 2026-11-02) 10. [Pricing](https://www.rsync.net/pricing.html) — rsync.net (read 2026-11-02) --- Coffervale: Coffervale sells storage VPS in Europe: KVM servers with 500 GB to 8 TB of HDD storage for off-site backups, Nextcloud, Seafile, Syncthing and archives, paid in crypto with no ID at signup. The servers run in Amsterdam, Bucharest and Chișinău, and the operator is DomaineGoat LLC, a company registered in Panama. On the 12-month term, every plan is priced at least 25% a month under a named comparable storage VPS, picked from 10 no-KYC crypto hosts whose prices were read on 2 November 2026.