I represent Skhron - a hosting provider founded in Ukraine back in 2023. Our top priorities are:
  • being customer-centric - we consider all our clients a unique person with their dreams, desires, expectations, and a right to be heard, not a money bag
  • customers' privacy - we take our customers' data safety seriously, and when possible, we collect as few information as possible
  • service quality - we believe that reliability and availability are crucial for hosting services
It is worth to note that we run Tor mirrors for (almost) all customer-facing portals (the only portals without Tor mirrors are our looking glasses):
Since April '24 we are operated by an Estonian legal entity Skhron OÜ (reg. no. 16921920).
We accept:
  • Bitcoin (both on-chain and off-chain) using self-hosted BTCPayServer instance;
  • Monero using self-hosted Bitcart instance;
  • dirty fiat (Stripe and SEPA transfer).
As of 25th October 2024, we offer KVM VPS in two locations:
We are also active on nostr:npub1yequ2pswfmkgyzylmvkfawz8z3nqlh0hcgaqr4e3xy2grxplq96stt6anu, follow us here!
Cool, will check you out. Really like the positive attitude towards Tor
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @anon 2 Nov
To run a full node one needs ~1TB of storage.
It is unfortunate that most companies provide fixed CPU/RAM/storage and to get 1TB storage one is forced to rent also zillion CPU cores and tons of RAM, which are not necessary and raise the cost. The biggest VPS at Skhron has less than 1TB.
Can you make it such that one can configure the CPU, RAM and storage independently?
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This kind of VPS is NOT to run a full BTC node.
You can do this:
  • run a full BTC node + LN node on your own hardware at home and use it through a wireguard VPN tunnel with this VPS. Your node will use the VPS IP for all communications. Done. Is the most elegant way.
  • run a LND node with Neutrino backend, that doesn't require any full blocks sync and works perfectly fine.
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You can run a pruned node, not exactly full but if you don't need the index its still good
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Unfortunately it is not yet possible due to disbalance in resource utilization.
To implement this feature I see two ways:
  • move to distributed object storage (CEPH for example), or
  • launch a separate cluster of HDD backed VPS with a small SSD partition for OS and boot, without lots of unnecessary CPU&RAM resources.
The second option is what we are working on currently, however there is no ETA when we will launch new tariff line yet, sorry.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @mf 2 Nov
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