Potential VPS Providers to add

[andrebreis]

Transfered from MattSkala#21

Since there are so few VPS providers implemented, and so many break all the time i would like to present the following strategy:

Analyse the VPS providers to see commonalities in payments and issues.
Focus on the providers that have:

• Similar payment providers and
• Low fraud checking
• Low prices
• Simple websites to traverse

A balance is to be found between these requirements.

Next is a list of providers that accept bitcoin as payment (compiled from http://cryto.net/~joepie91/bitcoinvps.html):

Provider	Difficulty of implementation	Gateway
LibertyVPS		coinpayments
RamNode	Manual reviews	Couldnt get past fraud detection
CrownCloud	Manual reviews
Cinfu	manual review
QHoster	Seems simple	Coinify OR coinpayments
KgoVPS	Fraud-screening and autocancel of order
HostSailor	"Possible Verification emails/other than that, ez"	coingate
Legionbox	manual review	coinpayments
BuyVM	Out of stock
Bithost.io	"Signup first, with blacklisting"
RockHoster	"Cart.php, which hints at manual reviews, but none encountered yet"	coinpayments
noez.de	"“Fair use traffic”, make account first, then add “credits” then buy server, Buying credits is very “direct” with bitcoin"	Mollie.com (seems very straight forward)
SolVPS	NO BITCOIN
VPSNine	"Seems like no checks, very easy registration, direct redirect to bitcoinpaymen. Very easy"	Direct transfer (custom)
Cirrusflex	Website down
LowEndSpirit	Weirdly links to interception Hosting
Little Happy Cloud	Weirdly links to low end spirit
Inception Hosting	Strong fraud checking	Coingate
VPSDime	"“Tor/torrents/minecraft may result in immediate suspension”:https://vpsdime.com/tos.html, NO BITCOIN"
RouterHosting	"Cheapest ($5) is out of stock, process is straight forward"	Coingate OR coinpayments
OrangeWebsite	"Pretty straightforward, but expensive"	Bitpay or coinpayments
DataCell	Captcha	Bitpay
VPSBiT	"No checks, but open socket website, idk if that makes it harder or not"	Carrotpay
Virtual Systems	"Seems like no checks, and straigtforward process"	Direct transfer (custom)
Angani	"Weird signup with recapcha, couldnt get trough with mouse and keyboard"
Zappie Host	"Seems like no checks, payment on coingate seems to need no context, but is also damn slow for me"	Coingate
IP-Transit	"Quarterly payments, bitcoin involves “contact us”"
HostWadi	straightforward	coinpayments
StarryDNS	No bitcoin
Kdatacenter	straightforward	bitpay
Internet Brothers	Automated Address checking
Luna Node	Requires phonenumber verification
DeepNet Solutions	Does kvm vps hosting via LowEndSpirit
Hostigation	"Use anynode as hostigation has expired ssl Manual review"
SecureDragon	Orders through VPNs are blocked	BitPay
ServerCrate
Impact VPS	NO BITCOIN
Mean Servers	MaxMind fraud prevention -> manual review
vpsGOD	No checks	coinpayments
NodeServ	Out of stock
prgmr	"Seems like no checks. Use sshkey instead of password"	bitpay
NocRoom	Only colocation
ImbaHost.com	Redirects to Mightweb
Build Your VPS / TOCICI	"Only email address required, payment via email link"	Bitcoin address via Email
YOKU	Fraud Check	Coinbase
MightWeb	Unclear password rules	bitpay

[MattSkala]

The list can be reduced (exclude fraud prevention/no bitcoin)to:

Provider	Difficulty of implementation	Gateway
LibertyVPS		coinpayments
QHoster	Seems simple	Coinify OR coinpayments
HostSailor	"Possible Verification emails/other than that, ez"	coingate
RockHoster	"Cart.php, which hints at manual reviews, but none encountered yet. ONLY ubuntu 14 and 15	coinpayments
noez.de	"“Fair use traffic”, make account first, then add “credits” then buy server, Buying credits is very “direct” with bitcoin"	Mollie.com (seems very straight fo↪\rward)
VPSNine	Seems like no checks, very easy registration, direct redirect to bitcoinpaymen. Very easy. NO UBUNTU 16.04!	Direct transfer (custom)
RouterHosting	"Cheapest ($5) is out of stock, process is straight forward"	Coingate OR coinpayments
OrangeWebsite	"Pretty straightforward, but expensive"	Bitpay or coinpayments
DataCell	Captcha	Bitpay
VPSBiT	"No checks, but open socket website, idk if that makes it harder or not"	Carrotpay
Virtual Systems	"Seems like no checks, and straigtforward process. TOO MUCH JS"	Direct transfer (custom)
Zappie Host	"Seems like no checks, payment on coingate seems to need no context, but is also damn slow for me"	Coingate
HostWadi	straightforward	coinpayments
Kdatacenter	straightforward. !CAPTCHA	bitpay
vpsGOD	No checks	coinpayments
prgmr	"Seems like no checks. Use sshkey instead of password"	bitpay
Build Your VPS / TOCICI	"Only email address required, payment via email link"	Bitcoin address via Email
MightWeb	Unclear password rules	bitpay

Hey!

Wanted to put my hat into the ring.

SporeStack. It has an actual API that tells you the address and amount to send. Also has a .onion if you'd rather launch over a Tor hidden service.

No scraping or anything like that. Uses SSH keys though and not root passwords.

Hope it helps you out. Let me know if you'd like any help implementing it.

Sincerely,

Teran

PS: There's also a Python 3 library/CLI.

Edit: I also have a couple of competitors that are similar. I haven't used them, but may be more options for you.

https://bitvps.com/

https://facelesscloud.com/

This one is a bit different, but also might be up your alley: https://cockbox.org/

[devos50]

Hi,

Thanks for the great suggestions! VPS providers where we can automatically buy some servers with Bitcoin is exactly what we need. Additional privacy with Tor is a great benefit.

I think BitVPS was considered by one of the groups that worked on this project in the past. I'm not sure what the current status is. I didn't know about faceless cloud and cockbox (interesting name ;).

Contributions to this project are more than welcome! I currently do not have time to review PRs but I could ask one of my colleagues to do so. Cloudomate and Plebnet are essential components in our stack for the 'robot economy', where autonomous agents buy server capacity for anonymous bandwidth relaying and seeding. This is a project where dozens of students already worked on so there is a solid code base already 👍.

You're welcome! Thanks for your reply. My main concern with adding SporeStack is just that it's Python V3 only. Are you planning to drop V2? Might make things easier.

Paying from a WalkingLiberty wallet (which SporeStack has built in) can also streamline things, but I'm sure you already have a wallet system in place.

As far as BitVPS goes, I think it may have changed hands or been rebranded heavily. It's now more of a copycat of SporeStack. I think before it required email registration.

[synctext]

Thnx Teran! You build quite an interesting system with Sporestack. We are currently dropping Python2 support.

Great, thank you! I appreciate that.

No need for Python 2 support makes it easier. I'll look at the code and see how it can all go together.

Do you know roughly how many servers are launched with cloudomate, say in a week?