Claude Code is at its best on tasks that take a while: a refactor across a hundred files, a test suite that needs to go green, a migration that runs for an hour. Which is exactly when a laptop is the wrong machine — it sleeps, it loses Wi-Fi on the train, it reboots for an update while you're at lunch.
Put it on a server and the session simply continues. You reconnect from wherever you are and pick up the conversation.
The setup
# Ubuntu 24.04
apt update && apt install -y curl git tmux
# Node.js (Claude Code needs it)
curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_22.x | bash -
apt install -y nodejs
# Claude Code
npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code
# Your credentials
export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=sk-ant-...
# Work inside tmux so the session outlives your SSH connection
tmux new -s code
cd /opt/your-project
claude
The tmux part is the whole trick. Detach with Ctrl-b d, close your laptop, come back tomorrow, tmux attach -t code — the run is still there, still going, with its context intact.
Recommended: AI-Agent ($10/mo — 4 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 40 GB NVMe). Claude Code itself is light; the weight comes from what it runs — your test suite, your build, your dev server. Four cores and 4 GB handle a typical project without complaining.
The part that's actually unusual
We run an MCP server. If you connect Claude Code to it, Claude can manage EQVPS infrastructure directly as tool calls:
- list plans and prices,
- spin up a fresh server (a clean sandbox to run something risky),
- read back its SSH details,
- tear it down when it's finished.
Ask it to "spin up a clean box, reproduce the bug there, and destroy it when done" — and, with a funded balance, it can. No dashboard, no ticket, no human confirming a purchase.
Endpoint and setup instructions: /docs.
Why no KYC, and why crypto
You're renting a box to run a coding agent. Handing over a passport scan for that is silly, so we don't ask: email to sign up, USDC or USDT to pay (Base, Ethereum, or Tron). Spin one up for a weekend project, kill it Monday, nobody has your card on file.
Never paid in crypto? Five-minute guide.
Picking a plan
| What you're doing | Plan | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Code on a normal project | AI-Agent | $10/mo |
| Also running a dev server you want reachable | AI-Agent-IP | $15/mo |
| Heavy builds, big test suites, several containers | Medium | $12/mo |
Full root, NVMe, unmetered traffic at 1 Gbit/s, Germany or Finland. Yearly billing is one crypto transfer instead of twelve.
Related reading
- Run an AI agent 24/7 on a VPS
- Host an MCP server — expose your own tools to Claude
- Secure a new VPS: a checklist
Ready? Deploy a server → — live in about a minute, paid in crypto, no ID required.