Most Solana work isn't the validator — it's everything orbiting it. A bot watching for a new pool and sniping the first block. An arbitrage script comparing prices across venues. An indexer chewing through account changes, a webhook consumer catching geyser events, a little service that signs and sends transactions on a schedule. None of that needs validator-grade iron. It needs a box that's always on, sits close to the node it talks to, and doesn't ask for your passport.
That's the server this page is about.
What actually matters: the distance to your node
For anything time-sensitive on Solana, the interesting number isn't CPU — it's the round trip between your server and the RPC node you're hitting. Blocks come about every 400 ms; if your sniper or arbitrage bot is racing to land in the next one, every millisecond between "decision" and "transaction reaches the leader" is working against you. A server physically near your RPC endpoint shaves that down on every single send.
So place the box deliberately. Our nodes are in Germany and Finland — if you use a specific RPC provider or run your own node connection, pick the region closer to it rather than letting it land wherever. (Fair warning: choosing the region at checkout isn't wired up yet — order, then ask us to place or move it, we do that by hand for now.)
What the box needs
Less than people assume. A typical Solana bot is CPU-light and latency-sensitive, which is a different shape from a backtesting rig:
- A couple of cores and a few GB of RAM handle a bot, an RPC/websocket client, and a geyser or webhook stream comfortably. Small ($8/mo) is the honest starting point.
- Steady uptime matters more than raw power — a strategy that misses ticks because the host rebooted is worse than a slightly slower one that never blinks.
- A dedicated IP if you whitelist on an RPC provider or lock API keys to an address. That's the small-IP plan.
Indexing a lot of on-chain state, or running several strategies side by side? Move up a tier for the RAM. But don't over-buy — for one bot and a data stream, Small is plenty, and you can resize later.
Paying in what you already hold
If you live in the Solana ecosystem, odds are your money is already there. You can pay for the server in SOL straight from your wallet, or in USDC/USDT/PYUSD on Solana — no moving funds to another chain just to settle a hosting bill. Fees are a fraction of a cent and it confirms in seconds. Email signup, no KYC: the machine running your bot doesn't need to carry your name on top of everything else. (The click-by-click is in how to pay with Solana.)
Where the honesty lives
Two limits, stated plainly. First, this is not validator hosting — if you're running a mainnet validator you need dedicated hardware with a lot of RAM and bandwidth, not a shared VPS, and we'd rather tell you that than sell you the wrong thing. Second, we run CPU-only boxes in two European datacenters; if your edge depends on co-location inside a specific venue's facility, that's a different game. For bots, RPC clients, indexers, and the general glue of a Solana project, a well-placed VPS is exactly the right tool — and it's up about a minute after you pay.
Start with Small — 4 vCPU, 4 GB, from $8/mo — or add a dedicated IP if you're whitelisting an RPC. Pay in SOL or USDC, no KYC.
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