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You can now pay for a VPS with Solana

Aug 28, 2026 · 2 min read · EQVPS

We added Solana to checkout this week. If you hold USDC, USDT or PYUSD on Solana — or you're sitting on some SOL — you can now pay for a server straight from there, no detour through another chain.

It's a small change on the surface and a genuinely useful one in practice, so here's the why.

The reason is boring, which is the point

A lot of people already keep their stablecoins on Solana. Until now, paying us meant moving those funds to Base, Ethereum or Polygon first — an extra hop, an extra fee, an extra chance to fat-finger a network. That friction lands right at the payment step, which is exactly where you don't want it. Now the answer is just "pay from where your money is."

That's the whole pitch. No new economics, no tokenomics, no reason to overthink it. One more rail so fewer people have to move funds across chains before they can buy a $5 box.

What Solana is good at here

For a small payment the fee is the entire story, and Solana is hard to beat on it:

One honest wrinkle worth knowing up front: Solana charges its network fee in SOL, even when you're sending USDC. It's a fraction of a cent, but a wallet with only USDC can't move it — keep about ten cents of SOL around and you'll never think about it again. We wrote up the full payment steps if you want the click-by-click version.

Who this is actually for

If your crypto lives on Ethereum, keep paying on Base — nothing here changes for you. This is for the people whose default chain is Solana: traders and bot runners who settle there, folks who bought SOL and never moved it, anyone in the Solana ecosystem who'd rather not shuffle funds across chains to pay a hosting bill. For them the checkout just got one step shorter.

And to be clear — Solana being fast and cheap doesn't make us a different host. Same servers in Germany and Finland, same email-only signup, same root in about a minute. We just stopped making Solana users take the long way to the payment page.

Want to try it? Pick a plan and choose Solana at checkout — USDC, USDT, PYUSD or SOL, no KYC either way. If you're running actual Solana workloads on the box, not just paying from it, we went deeper on that in VPS for Solana developers.

FAQ

Which Solana tokens does EQVPS accept?

USDC, USDT, PYUSD, and native SOL. The stablecoins are the simplest — the price is fixed near $1, so you pay exactly the invoice amount. SOL works if that's what you hold.

Is Solana cheaper than paying on Ethereum?

For a small payment, dramatically. Solana network fees are fractions of a cent; an Ethereum mainnet transfer can cost several dollars when the network is busy. On a $5 order that difference is the whole point.

Do I still need SOL if I pay in USDC?

A tiny amount, yes — Solana charges its network fee in SOL even for token transfers. It's a fraction of a cent, so keeping about ten cents of SOL in your wallet covers it indefinitely.

Did the older networks go away?

No. Base, Ethereum and Polygon still work exactly as before. Solana is an additional option — pick whichever network your funds already live on.

Is KYC required to pay with Solana?

No. Email signup, pay from your wallet, get root. The exchange where you bought crypto may run its own checks; paying EQVPS does not.

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