The chain is a storage problem
A pruned node fits in tens of gigabytes, but an archival Bitcoin node is past 600 GB and growing, and a Monero node with the full transaction index is comparable. That makes the Storage VPS line the natural home: Vault 4 TB gives 4 TB of RAID-10 for $19.90/month, leaving years of headroom, and the smaller compute plans are better suited to a pruned node or a Lightning routing node that sits on top.
Initial block download is transfer-heavy; after that a node's steady-state bandwidth is modest, and overage is never billed here in any case.
Why run your own node
Querying someone else's public RPC endpoint tells that operator which addresses you care about. Your own node answers your wallet's queries privately and validates the chain for itself rather than trusting a third party's view of it. Renting the box without identity verification, and paying for it in crypto, removes the KYC record that would otherwise link the node back to you at the infrastructure layer.
Frequently asked questions
How much disk does a Bitcoin node need?
An archival node is past 600 GB and grows steadily, so plan for terabytes rather than gigabytes. The Vault 4 TB Storage VPS provides 4 TB of RAID-10 at $19.90/month, which leaves years of headroom; a pruned node needing only tens of gigabytes fits on a compute plan instead.
Can I run a crypto node without KYC?
Yes. NimbusVPS requires no identity verification to rent a server — an email address and a cryptocurrency payment are the whole signup — so the node is not tied to a name or a card at the hosting layer. Access logs are kept for 0 days, meaning they are not kept.
Is running a full node allowed?
Yes, explicitly. Bitcoin and Monero full nodes, Lightning routing nodes and RPC endpoints are ordinary permitted workloads. The only prohibitions are the universal ones in the acceptable use policy, none of which a validating node touches.
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