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What is Basalthold?
Basalthold rents storage dedicated servers with 24 TB to 160 TB of hard drives in Amsterdam, Bucharest and Chisinau, paid in crypto with no ID upload, from $110.99 per 30 days (2 November 2026), each hold priced 25% under a named comparable server of a no-KYC crypto host. Blank data drives, no logs.
Key facts (2026-11-03)
| Products | Storage dedicated servers |
|---|---|
| Storage dedicated servers — price | From $110.99/30 days · details |
| KYC / identity check | None — no ID, no selfie, no documents to sign up, top up or buy |
| Email required to sign up | No |
| Accepted cryptocurrencies | Crypto only: Bitcoin (BTC), Tether (USDT, TRC-20 or ERC-20), USD Coin (USDC, ERC-20), Ethereum (ETH), Solana (SOL), Litecoin (LTC) |
| Minimum top-up | $25 — top up a prepaid balance once, then buy any plan from it |
| Balance rule | Credit on your balance does not expire and renews any of your servers. When a top-up is only made to reach the minimum, the unspent part comes back on request within 30 days of payment, in USDT or USDC. The rest of a balance is not paid out unless the law requires it |
| Locations | Amsterdam (Netherlands), Bucharest (Romania) and Chisinau (Moldova): every hold in every city, at the same price |
| Operator | DomaineGoat LLC |
| Support | A person answers support emails within 12 hours, seven days a week, including help with SSH keys, RAID, reinstalls and firewall rules |
| Contact | [email protected] · abuse reports: [email protected] |
Every plan and its price
| Product | Plan | Price | Price per unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Storage dedicated servers | Hold 24 — 24 TB raw · 6 cores | $110.99 | $3.70/day |
| Storage dedicated servers | Hold 40 — 40 TB raw · 6 cores | $201.09 | $6.70/day |
| Storage dedicated servers | Hold 100 — 100 TB raw · 10 cores | $377.05 | $12.57/day |
| Storage dedicated servers | Hold 160 — 160 TB raw · 16 cores | $561.39 | $18.71/day |
Prices in USD, paid in crypto from the account balance. Live list: pricing · pricing.json.
About Basalthold
- Hold 24 (2 × 12 TB HDD, Intel Xeon E-2176G, 32 GB) $110.99; Hold 40 (4 × 10 TB HDD, AMD Ryzen 5 3600, 64 GB) $201.09; Hold 100 (10 × 10 TB HDD, Intel Xeon Silver 4210R, 128 GB) $377.05; Hold 160 (10 × 16 TB HDD, AMD EPYC 7302P, 128 GB) $561.39 per 30 days (prices of 2 November 2026)
- Each hold is priced 25% under a named reference server, rounded down to the cent (prices read on 2 November 2026): Hold 24 against Mangohost's “HDD0 Dedicated Server” at $147.99 a month; Hold 40 against OffshoreDedi's “Server: 40TB Storage” at $268.13 a month; Hold 100 against OffshoreDedi's “Server: 100TB Storage” at $502.74 a month; Hold 160 against OffshoreDedi's “Server: 160TB Storage” at $748.52 a month. The reference is the comparable storage server with the smallest monthly price among 5 hosts that take crypto without asking for ID at signup: at least the hold's raw hard-drive capacity, a floor of cores and memory (Hold 24: 4 cores and 16 GB; Hold 40: 6 cores and 32 GB; Hold 100: 8 cores and 64 GB; Hold 160: 8 cores and 64 GB), a port of 1 Gbit/s or more, at least 10 TB of traffic, one IPv4 address, monthly billing and stock shown. Processor age is not counted, since most storage servers on sale run processors from 2012 to 2017; setup fees are spread over twelve months; euro prices use 1 EUR = 1.1172 USD (ECB, 2026-10-30). We do not claim to be the cheapest at every capacity: sellers outside that pool list storage servers down to $1.30 per raw TB (NetDynamics24, same day)
- Cities: Amsterdam (Netherlands), Bucharest (Romania) and Chisinau (Moldova)
- Whole machine, root over SSH, system on its own SSD, data drives delivered blank for ZFS or mdadm; Linux, Proxmox VE or Proxmox Backup Server; no setup fee
- No KYC: no ID, no selfie, no documents, no card; account-number login, email optional
- Run by DomaineGoat LLC (Panama); no logs; encryption keys stay with the customer
- Rent a hold for 30 days, 3 months (91 days, 10% off), 6 months (182 days, 20% off) or 12 months (365 days, 30% off): a longer term costs the 30-day price times 3, 6 or 12, minus the discount, rounded down to the cent (Hold 24: $299.67 for 3 months, $532.75 for 6, $932.31 for 12). A renewal keeps your term and your starting price unless you choose another term for the next renewal in the dashboard
- Support: A person answers support emails within 12 hours, seven days a week, including help with SSH keys, RAID, reinstalls and firewall rules
Basalthold is built for
- Offsite backups with restic, Borg, Proxmox Backup Server or Veeam on a machine you control
- Self-hosted file sync and photo libraries (Nextcloud, Seafile, Immich) and S3-compatible object storage
- Teams that want tens to hundreds of terabytes paid in crypto, without identity checks
More facts
| What it is | Storage dedicated servers: a whole physical machine built around a bank of hard drives, rented to one customer, with root access to every drive |
|---|---|
| Capacity | Hold 24: 24 TB raw (2 × 12 TB HDD); Hold 40: 40 TB raw (4 × 10 TB HDD); Hold 100: 100 TB raw (10 × 10 TB HDD); Hold 160: 160 TB raw (10 × 16 TB HDD) |
| Drives | The operating system sits on its own SSD (two mirrored SSDs on the larger holds); the data drives arrive blank and unpartitioned, so you can build ZFS, an mdadm array or a set of independent disks. If you want the team to prepare a RAID 6 or RAID 10 array before delivery, say so to support before the server is handed over |
| Encryption | You can encrypt every data drive with LUKS or ZFS native encryption; the keys stay with you and nobody on the team ever asks for them |
| Network | Every server has a 1 Gbit/s port with a monthly traffic allowance (Hold 24 40 TB, Hold 40 60 TB, Hold 100 120 TB, Hold 160 200 TB), one dedicated IPv4 address and an IPv6 /64; going past the allowance never triggers an automatic bill |
| Cities | Amsterdam (Netherlands), Bucharest (Romania) and Chisinau (Moldova): every hold in every city, at the same price |
| Price | Hold 24 $110.99, Hold 40 $201.09, Hold 100 $377.05, Hold 160 $561.39 per 30 days. No setup fee is charged, neither on the first order nor on a renewal |
| Terms | Rent a hold for 30 days, 3 months (91 days, 10% off), 6 months (182 days, 20% off) or 12 months (365 days, 30% off): a longer term costs the 30-day price times 3, 6 or 12, minus the discount, rounded down to the cent (Hold 24: $299.67 for 3 months, $532.75 for 6, $932.31 for 12). A renewal keeps your term and your starting price unless you choose another term for the next renewal in the dashboard |
| Access | You log in as root over SSH: paste a public key at checkout and password logins stay off, or leave it empty and receive a temporary root password with the server, to replace at your first login. There is no IPMI or KVM-over-IP access for customers; reboots and reinstalls you request in the dashboard are carried out by the team |
| Delivery | A person on the team prepares the machine after your payment is confirmed, within 72 hours, so it is not instant; the dashboard shows its progress until the IP address appears |
| Logs | No logs are kept: no connection records, no traffic records and no visitor or customer IP addresses, on the website, in the dashboard or on the servers |
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