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:
Fees are fractions of a cent — well under a penny per transfer. On a $3–5 order that's a rounding error instead of a tax.
Confirmation in seconds. Solana produces a block roughly every 400 ms; you send, and it's usually settled before you've switched tabs.
USDC, USDT, PYUSD or SOL — stablecoins if you want a fixed amount, SOL if that's what you're holding.
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.
