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The 7-day rental at a glance
Everything that decides the cost and the conditions of a weekly rental, in one table.
Weekly dedicated server facts at Tungsto (25 September 2026)
| Topic | What applies to a weekly rental |
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| Price and unit | $17 to $216 per 7-day term; $55 to $719 per 30-day term; list prices in USD |
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| Entry configuration | Ryzen 5 3600: 6 cores/12 threads, 64 GB DDR4, 2×512 GB NVMe, 1 Gbps port, $17 per 7 days |
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| Minimum | One server for one 7-day term; up to 16 identical servers per order; minimum deposit $20 (USD 20 equivalent in crypto) |
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| Availability | Available — deposit from $20, credited in about one minute |
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| Regions | Dallas (DAL), Ashburn (IAD), Portland (PDX); regional capacity is checked when you submit the order |
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| Included | Unmetered port (1 Gbps on Ryzen and Xeon, 10 Gbps on EPYC), IPv4 /29, IPv6 /64, IPMI/KVM access, baseline DDoS protection |
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| Crypto assets and networks | BTC (Bitcoin), ETH (Ethereum mainnet), USDT (TRC-20), USDC (ERC-20), XMR (Monero), SOL (Solana), LTC (Litecoin); every deposit funds a USD balance and is credited within about a minute once the network confirmations are reached |
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| KYC scope | Asked: username and password; you keep the recovery code. Never asked at standard signup: email, phone, legal name, identity document, facial scan. Recorded: payment references, ledger entries, orders, sessions, support messages. Still possible: ownership verification for refunds or deletion; valid legal process |
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| Provisioning | Published window of 20–90 minutes depending on the model; starts once enough cleared balance is available and runs inside the paid term |
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| Fees | No setup fee and no Tungsto deposit fee; network fees are set by your wallet or exchange; options such as extra IPv4 or hardware RAID are quoted separately |
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| Volume discount | 5% for 2–3, 8% for 4–7, 10% for 8 or more identical servers in one order; the largest tier applies |
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| Renewal | Automatic attempt in the final 24 hours before paid-through, from your USD balance; adds 7 days at the price recorded for the order |
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| Grace period | 72 hours after paid-through with the server suspended, then the server is reclaimed and securely wiped |
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| Early stop and refunds | Terms are prepaid; no self-service early termination; non-refundable once provisioned, except where law requires it or the configuration cannot be delivered |
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| Support | Web contact form with an account handle and a reply secret; no email address needed |
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When a 7-day term beats a monthly contract or hourly cloud
A week is long enough to build, run and tear down a real job, and short enough that you stop paying when it is done. These are the jobs it fits best.
- Load tests and benchmarks. Measure an application on unshared hardware, repeat the runs and compare models. The EPYC 7402P gives 24 cores and a 10 Gbps port for $48 per 7 days.
- Launches and event weekends. Add capacity for a release, a sale or a tournament, then let the term end.
- Migrations. Run the new server beside the old one while data syncs and DNS moves. If the cutover slips, the next 7 days renew from your balance.
- Game-server weekends. Host a community event on a Ryzen 7 5800X with 64 GB for $22 per 7 days.
- Node sync and chain tests. Sync a blockchain node on NVMe, or test a node setup before committing to a month.
- Data jobs and staging. Process a dataset on the Dual EPYC 7763 (128 cores, 1 TB RAM) for $216 per 7 days, or stage data on the 192 TB raw storage server for $84 per 7 days.
Which Tungsto term fits your job length
| Job length | Best option | Why |
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| A few hours | An hourly host | Tungsto has no hourly billing; its shortest term is 7 days |
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| 1 to 7 days | One 7-day term | From $17 for a whole machine, with no setup fee |
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| 8 to 21 days | Two or three 7-day terms | Three weeks cost less than 30 days on every model |
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| 22 to 30 days | One 30-day term | From $55, cheaper than four 7-day terms |
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| Longer | Consecutive 30-day terms | Each renewal adds exactly 30 days |
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Weekly, hourly or monthly: how Tungsto compares
Short-term buyers usually weigh three models: hourly bare metal, monthly dedicated hosts and a prepaid week. The table below uses each provider's own published pages, as of 25 September 2026.
Short-term dedicated server options compared, as of 25 September 2026
| Criterion | Tungsto | Cherry Servers | Hivelocity | RedSwitches |
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| Shortest billing term | 7 days, prepaid | Hourly (hourly or monthly billing) | Monthly on most listings; hourly on a few | 1 month (monthly, quarterly or annual billing) |
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| Entry price as published | $17 per 7 days or $55 per 30 days (Ryzen 5 3600, 64 GB) | From €0.08 per hour (pre-built bare metal) | $65 per month (instant E3-1230 v6, 32 GB); Outlet listings from $50 per month | $129.58 per month (cheapest US listing: Xeon E-2274G, 32 GB, New York or D.C.) |
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| Crypto payment route | BTC, ETH, USDT-TRC20, USDC-ERC20, XMR, SOL, LTC into a USD balance | 15+ coins via CoinGate and BVNK; Monero not listed | Bitcoin only, via BitPay, arranged with its billing team | 16 coins including XMR; its Terms name Cryptomus as crypto processor |
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| Identity requirements | Username, password and recovery code; standard signup has no email, phone or ID field | iDenfy ID check for card payments and for automatic payments or top-ups | Not published on the pages read | No KYC for crypto payers at account creation; KYC for card payers |
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| US locations | Dallas, Ashburn, Portland | Chicago (only US site listed) | Several, including Dallas, Los Angeles and Tampa | Chicago, D.C., Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Phoenix, San Francisco, Seattle, St. Louis |
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| Included bandwidth | Unmetered 1 Gbps port (10 Gbps on EPYC) | Up to 100 TB of free monthly egress; extra from $0.5/TB | 20 TB on 1 Gbps; overage billed per GB | 100 TB on 1 Gbps (cheapest US listing) |
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| Advertised deployment time | Published provisioning window of 20–90 minutes, by model | 12 minutes (pre-built servers) | Usually 10 minutes | 10 minutes on some listings; 1 hour on its cheapest US listing |
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What it means for a short job. For work measured in hours, Cherry Servers' hourly billing from €0.08 per hour is the cheaper model, and hosts that advertise 10 to 12 minute deployment hand over hardware faster than Tungsto's 20–90 minute window. Once a job spans days, the 7-day term changes the arithmetic: RedSwitches bills by the month at minimum, so its cheapest US listing costs $129.58 even if you need one week, while a 64 GB Ryzen 5 3600 at Tungsto costs $17 for 7 days.
Where Tungsto fits. Choose it for multi-day jobs in Dallas, Ashburn or Portland when a fixed prepaid week, payment in XMR or USDT-TRC20 and a signup without email or ID matter more than minute-level billing. Cherry Servers lists no Monero and asks for an ID check for card and automatic payments; Hivelocity takes Bitcoin only, through BitPay.
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Renewal, grace period and how a weekly rental ends
Renewal is automatic and works only from your prepaid USD balance, so a week never turns into an open-ended bill.
- Final 24 hours. Tungsto attempts renewal before the paid-through time. A successful debit adds 7 days from the previous paid-through time, at the unit price and discount recorded for your order.
- Balance too low. No renewal is recorded. At paid-through the server is suspended, a power-off is queued and a 72-hour grace deadline starts.
- Balance arrives during grace. Renewal can be retried before the grace deadline; a successful debit returns the server to Active, and the new 7 days count from the previous expiry, not from your payment.
- Grace ends. The server moves to Reclaiming and a secure wipe is queued. Keep your own backups before the paid term ends.
A pending crypto transfer is not spendable balance until it is credited within about a minute once the network confirmations are reached, so top up before the final 24-hour window opens, not during it. To finish after a single week, leave less spendable balance than the renewal amount (a withdrawal request places a hold on balance), or send a stop request through the contact form well before the final 24 hours and count on it once the operator confirms it.
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Paying in crypto without KYC: the exact scope
You fund a USD balance, and orders and renewals are debited from it in USD. Seven assets are listed: Bitcoin on-chain (not Lightning), native ETH on Ethereum mainnet, USDT on TRON (TRC-20), USDC on Ethereum (ERC-20), Monero, native SOL and Litecoin. Send only on the listed network, because other chains, Layer-2 routes and wrapped tokens are not interchangeable.
Standard signup takes a 3–32 character username and a 12–200 character password, then displays a recovery code a single time. There is no email or phone reset, so store that code offline. No email, phone number, legal name, identity document or facial scan is requested. Tungsto records what running the service requires: sessions, security events, payment references, ledger entries, orders, assigned addresses, support messages and control requests. Account-specific requests such as refunds or deletion need separate ownership verification, and the Terms, the Acceptable Use Policy, abuse handling and valid legal process all keep applying.
No KYC means no identity profile at signup, not anonymity: an exchange, a blockchain or a network path can still link activity to you.
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Before you pay: straight answers
Total cost. The list price is the cost of the term: $17 to $216 for 7 days, with no setup fee and no Tungsto deposit fee; the only extra is your wallet's network fee. Quote-based options (extra IPv4, a 10 Gbps upgrade on Ryzen or Xeon, advanced DDoS protection, hardware RAID, off-site backup) and licences such as Windows Server are priced separately.
Trust. Tungsto is operated by gpucrypt LLC of Staten Island, New York. Prices, specifications and provisioning windows are published for all 15 models, and the Terms, Refund Policy and Acceptable Use Policy are public.
Availability. Your account can be created today; deposits and ordering open inside it at launch. Capacity for your model in Dallas, Ashburn or Portland is checked when you submit the order rather than promised in advance.
Payment. You send crypto only when you top up the balance, from $20 (USD 20 equivalent in crypto). Orders and renewals are USD debits from that balance, so the price of a week does not move with the coin you paid in.
KYC. No identity document, email or phone number is requested at standard signup, for a 7-day term or a 30-day one.
Delays. Your hardware is prepared and installed for you. The published window is 20–45 minutes for the entry Ryzen and Xeon models and up to 90 minutes for storage servers and the largest EPYC builds. It starts once enough cleared balance is available (a deposit is credited within about a minute once the network confirmations are reached) and runs inside your term, so even 90 minutes uses less than 1% of a 7-day rental.
Conditions. Terms are prepaid and there is no self-service early termination. A provisioned rental is non-refundable except where law requires it or the ordered configuration cannot be delivered. Balance you never spent can be requested back in a cryptocurrency you used to fund the account, after manual review; network fees may reduce the amount sent.
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Our recommendation
Rent Tungsto by the week if your job lasts between one day and three weeks, needs a whole machine with 64 GB or more in Dallas, Ashburn or Portland, and you want to pay in crypto from an account with no email or ID. Start with the Ryzen 5 3600 at $17 for tests and game servers, the EPYC 7402P at $48 when you need 24 cores and 10 Gbps, or a storage server when the job is moving data.
Look elsewhere if you want billing by the hour for jobs of a few hours, need hardware handed over within minutes, need a location outside the US, or want a managed service with backups included.
What to do now: register a username, keep the recovery code somewhere other than the machine you work on, shortlist a configuration in the catalogue, and price multi-server orders in the cost calculator. When your Billing page shows deposits enabled, fund the balance and order your first 7 days.