BitVPS vs HostKey — hangisini seçmeli?

HostKey'in zorunlu kimlik doğrulama yığınına KYC gerektirmeyen bir offshore alternatif; dedicated bare-metal 48,50 dolardan başlıyor.

Güncellendi 2026-05-19

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Looking for an alternative to HostKey? HostKey'in Hollanda, Almanya, Finlandiya, İzlanda, ABD ve Türkiye'deki 7.000 sunuculuk filosu ile BitVPS'ın İzlanda, Hollanda, Romanya ve İsviçre'deki node'larının karşılaştırması. BitVPS is an offshore VPS and dedicated bare-metal host incorporated in Saint Kitts and Nevis, with hosting in Iceland, the Netherlands, Romania and Switzerland. We accept 20+ cryptocurrencies, ship 1 Tbps of DDoS absorption included on every plan, and provision a VPS in 41 seconds median from confirmed payment to SSH login.

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HostKey vs BitVPS — the spec table

Numbers and facts only. Where the competitor wins, the table says so.

Specification	HostKey	BitVPS
Veri merkezi bölgeleri	Hollanda, Almanya, Finlandiya, İzlanda, ABD (NY), Türkiye + diğerleri	İzlanda, Hollanda, Romanya, İsviçre
Kurumsal yargı bölgesi	Netherlands (HOSTKEY B.V.) — EU member, MLAT-accessible	Saint Kitts ve Nevis (14-Eyes dışında)
Ödeme coinleri	BTC, BCH, LTC, DOGE, ETH, WBTC, SHIB, USDC, USDT, DAI + BitPay üzerinden diğerleri (XMR yok)	BTC, XMR, ETH, USDT, USDC, SOL, LTC, XRP, TRX, TON, DOGE, POL, BCH, DASH, ZEC ve daha fazlası (20+)
Kayıtta KYC	Mandatory — government ID + BitPay ID required within 30 days; no refunds to unverified accounts	Yok — yalnızca ödemeyle kayıt
DDoS koruması	Avrupa'da dahil; kapsam ve kapasite kamuya açıklanmamış	1 Tbps anycast, her planda dahil
Sağlama medyanı	VPS: 'dakikalar içinde'; dedicated: belirtilmemiş; GPU: 30 dakika içinde dağıtım belirtilmiş	41 saniye
Giriş VPS fiyatı	€3.40/month (vm.pico: 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 40 GB SSD)	Aylık 8,50 dolar (2 vCPU, 4 GB DDR4 ECC, 60 GB NVMe)
Giriş bare-metal	€23/month (Celeron J1800, 2c, 8 GB, 120 GB SSD) — from ~€40 for business-grade Xeon configs	Aylık 48,50 dolar
GPU sunucular	Tesla A100 from €1.53/hr, H100 from €2.07/hr — 80 GB HBM2e	Sunulmuyor
EPYC / yüksek çekirdekli yapılandırmalar	EPYC 9354 from €299/month (32c, up to 768 GB RAM, dual 3.84 TB NVMe, 10 Gbps)	Mevcut katalogda belirtilmemiş
Warrant canary	Yayımlanmamış	Haftalık, PGP imzalı
Halka açık ağ ayrıntıları	Yayımlanmamış	/network/ üzerinde tam ASN + peering matrisi
Kuruluş tarihi	~2006 (~19 yıldır faaliyet gösteriyor)	2025

Honest assessment

What HostKey does well — and where it falls short

Each competitor gets real credit for what they do well. The cons section reflects published facts and recurring customer feedback, not marketing FUD.

Strengths of HostKey

HostKey operates one of the broadest GPU server catalogs available from a single European provider: NVIDIA Tesla A100 (€1.53/hour) and H100 (€2.07/hour) systems with 80 GB HBM2e, deployed in Amsterdam and accessible with hourly billing. This is a product category most privacy hosts — including BitVPS — do not offer.
HostKey's AMD EPYC 9354 configurations (32 cores, 3.25 GHz, up to 768 GB RAM, dual 3.84 TB NVMe, 10 Gbps uplink) represent competitive high-core-count compute at €299/month, suitable for memory-intensive databases, containerized workloads, and large compile pipelines where single-tenant hardware matters.
Şirket yaklaşık 19 yıldır (2006'dan bu yana) faaliyet göstermekte olup BitVPS'ı önemli ölçüde geçen daha uzun bir geçmişe sahiptir.
HostKey includes DDoS protection at no additional charge across its European servers, and its 1 Gbps to 10 Gbps unmetered uplinks are standard even on modest dedicated configurations — competitive with much of the market at the €40-100/month tier.
Hourly billing is available across VPS and many dedicated tiers, which reduces cost and commitment risk for short-duration compute jobs such as batch ML training, rendering, or load testing — a legitimate workflow for which pay-as-you-go pricing genuinely matters.

Limitations of HostKey

HostKey, Hollanda hukuku ve AB finansal düzenlemeleri kapsamındaki tüm müşteriler için zorunlu KYC/AML doğrulaması uygulamaktadır. Özellikle 30 gün içinde hükümet tarafından verilmiş kimlik belgesi ibraz edilmesi zorunludur; doğrulanmamış hesaplara iade yapılmaz.
HostKey, Amsterdam, Hollanda'da (HOSTKEY B.V.) kurulmuş olup AB hukuku, Hollanda mahkemeleri ve Avrupa MLAT anlaşmaları kapsamındadır.
No Monero support: crypto payments are processed exclusively through BitPay, which does not support XMR. Buyers who prefer privacy-preserving on-chain payment — or who want to pay with SOL, TON, TRX, DOGE, or newer chains — cannot do so at HostKey.
HostKey, hizmetleri açıkça yaptırım uygulanan ülkelerdeki (Afganistan, İran, Suriye, Küba vb.) müşterilere kısıtlamaktadır.
HostKey's positioning is mainstream B2B: its website, pricing tiers, and sales approach target mid-market businesses that expect conventional compliance overhead. There is no equivalent to a warrant canary, a published network peering matrix, or a payment-only signup model — privacy posture transparency is not part of the product.

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Which one fits your use case?

Sometimes the competitor is the right answer. We say so when it is.

Pick HostKey if…

You need GPU compute — specifically NVIDIA Tesla A100 or H100 — for AI training, inference, or HPC work, and you can satisfy HostKey's KYC requirements: HostKey's hourly-billed GPU servers are a legitimate option that BitVPS currently does not match.
You require high-core-count EPYC bare-metal (32+ cores, 500+ GB RAM, 10 Gbps uplink) at a defined price point, and your business is willing to complete standard EU identity verification — HostKey's EPYC 9354 catalog is competitive and well-documented.
Your deployment needs a datacenter specifically in Germany, Finland, or Turkey — jurisdictions not in BitVPS' current network — and physical proximity or national data-residency rules are the primary constraint.
Kısa süreli dedicated iş yükleri için saatlik faturalandırma istiyorsunuz: HostKey hem VPS hem de seçili dedicated kademe lerde saatlik fiyatlandırma sunuyor.

Pick BitVPS if…

Kimlik doğrulama tamamlamadan bare-metal veya VPS altyapısına ihtiyacınız var: HostKey'in zorunlu KYC'si, BitPay kimlik zorunluluğu ve doğrulanmamış hesaplara iade yasağı bu seçeneği dışlıyor.
Tehdit modeliniz AB yargı bölgelerini dışlıyor: BitVPS Saint Kitts & Nevis'te kurulmuş olup hem 14-Göz hem de AB MLAT çerçevesi dışında faaliyet gösteriyor.
Monero veya BitPay aracılığıyla kullanılamayan kripto paralarla (SOL, TON, TRX, XRP, ZEC, DASH, POL) ödeme yapmak istiyorsunuz: HostKey'in ödeme katmanı bu seçenekleri kapsamıyor.
You value published transparency signals — warrant canary, ASN peering matrix — as part of your vendor due diligence: BitVPS publishes a weekly PGP-signed canary and a full network topology at /network/; HostKey publishes neither.

BitVPS in 4 facts

What's different about BitVPS

VPS from $8.50

Five tiers of KVM virtual servers on AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon Gold with DDR4/DDR5 ECC and NVMe storage.

Adanmış bare-metal sunucu

Five single-tenant tiers from $39.50/mo — full IPMI, 4-hour hardware-swap SLA, no neighbours.

4 jurisdictions

Iceland, Netherlands, Romania and Switzerland. Real legal redundancy across regimes.

1 Tbps DDoS

Anycast scrubbing fabric included on every plan. Public ASN and peering matrix.

SSS

HostKey vs BitVPS — questions answered

HostKey iyi bir gizlilik barındırma sağlayıcısı mı?

HostKey is a well-run, technically capable hosting provider with nearly two decades of operation, a large server fleet, and genuinely competitive GPU and EPYC pricing. For a mainstream business or developer who needs reliable European bare-metal with crypto payment options and does not have unusual privacy requirements, it is a reasonable choice. It is not, however, a privacy host in any meaningful sense of that term. HostKey B.V. is incorporated in Amsterdam and operates under Dutch law, EU AML directives, and GDPR. It requires mandatory KYC for all customers — including government-ID verification routed through BitPay for crypto payments — and explicitly suspends unverified accounts that receive abuse reports with no refund. It does not accept Monero. It does not publish a warrant canary. It restricts service to residents of a list of sanctioned countries. Buyers who need privacy properties beyond 'I paid in Bitcoin' should look elsewhere. The infrastructure quality is genuine; the privacy posture is not.

HostKey için en iyi alternatif nedir?

The right alternative depends on what HostKey feature you are replacing. For no-KYC bare-metal with European locations, BitVPS (Iceland, Netherlands, Romania, Switzerland, SKN-incorporated) and Privex (multiple regions, crypto-native) are the closest fits. For no-KYC VPS in Iceland specifically, FlokiNET and 1984 Hosting operate under Icelandic law with strong privacy statutes. For dedicated bare-metal with full offshore corporate structure, BitVPS and PrivateLayer are relevant options. If the HostKey appeal is GPU compute and KYC compliance is acceptable, Hetzner and OVHcloud offer comparable EPYC/GPU configurations at competitive prices within the EU. For buyers who specifically need H100 or A100 without KYC, the options are significantly narrower — most GPU-capable hosts operate under mainstream compliance frameworks.

HostKey birden fazla veri merkezi konumu sunuyor mu?

Yes — HostKey operates servers across a broad footprint: Netherlands (Amsterdam), Germany (multiple sites), Finland (Helsinki), Iceland, USA (New York area), Turkey, and additional European locations including France, UK, Spain, Italy, Poland, and Switzerland. This geographic spread is a genuine strength, particularly for latency-sensitive workloads or multi-region deployments. Iceland is a notable inclusion — Icelandic law is generally considered privacy-protective and is the same jurisdiction used by FlokiNET and 1984 Hosting. However, the corporate entity controlling all those servers is HOSTKEY B.V. in the Netherlands, so data-residency benefits of the Icelandic physical location do not automatically translate to Icelandic legal protections for customer data — Dutch law and EU instruments govern the relationship. BitVPS offers Iceland, Netherlands, Romania, and Switzerland as VPS locations under Saint Kitts & Nevis incorporation.

HostKey'e Monero ile ödeme yapabilir miyim?

No. HostKey routes all cryptocurrency payments through BitPay, and BitPay does not support Monero (XMR). HostKey's supported crypto list via BitPay includes Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, Dogecoin, Ethereum, Wrapped Bitcoin, Shiba Inu, and several USD-pegged stablecoins (USDC, USDT, DAI, GUSD, USDP, BUSD). ERC-20 tokens are only accepted on the Ethereum network. Beyond the technical exclusion of XMR, BitPay requires a BitPay ID — a one-time identity verification step involving personal information, a supporting document, and a selfie — for all crypto-paying customers. This means even the coins BitPay does support are not anonymous: your payment is linked to your verified identity in BitPay's records. BitVPS accepts Monero directly along with 20+ other coins, with no intermediary KYC processor.

BitVPS, HostKey'den daha ucuz mu?

At the very bottom of the VPS range, HostKey is cheaper: the vm.pico plan at €3.40/month (roughly $3.70) for 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 40 GB SSD undercuts BitVPS' $8.50/month entry tier. HostKey's bare-metal entry also starts lower in euro terms — around €23/month for a Celeron-based server, or €40/month for a business-grade Xeon E3 configuration — versus BitVPS' $48.50/month bare-metal entry. However, the comparison is not purely price-per-spec: HostKey's cost includes mandatory KYC overhead, BitPay ID verification, and the operational risk of account suspension without refund for unverified accounts. For buyers who can complete KYC and want GPU or EPYC-class hardware at scale, HostKey's pricing at those tiers is competitive. For buyers in the no-KYC segment, BitVPS is the relevant reference price.

HostKey KYC'siz kayıt destekliyor mu?

No. HostKey enforces mandatory KYC/AML verification for all customers, citing compliance with EU tax law, anti-money laundering regulations, and Dutch financial institution requirements. The process requires all clients to submit proof of identity within 30 days of registration. For customers paying in cryptocurrency, an additional BitPay ID verification — requiring personal information, a government document, and a selfie — is required at payment time. Accounts that do not complete verification within 30 days cannot place new orders, and accounts belonging to unverified users are suspended when abuse reports are received, with no refunds issued to unverified customers. This is among the stricter KYC postures in the dedicated-server market. HostKey is not a viable option for any buyer who requires anonymous or pseudonymous account creation.

BitVPS, HostKey'e kıyasla ne kadar hızlı sağlama yapıyor?

BitVPS publishes a 41-second median provisioning time from paid invoice to SSH login for its VPS product. HostKey does not publish an equivalent median provisioning time. For VPS, HostKey's website states deployment 'within minutes,' which is consistent with automated provisioning pipelines common in the industry but does not specify a distribution or median. For GPU servers, HostKey states 'deployment within 30 minutes,' implying a longer manual or semi-automated process. For custom dedicated servers, HostKey's lead time is not publicly stated and likely varies by configuration and datacenter availability. BitVPS' 41-second figure implies a fully automated pipeline with no identity-verification queue — logical given the payment-only signup model. At HostKey, the BitPay ID step and KYC window could extend the effective time-to-server for a first-time customer by hours or days.

HostKey gerçekten offshore veya anonim midir?

HostKey is neither offshore nor anonymous. The company is HOSTKEY B.V., a Dutch-registered entity headquartered at W. Frederik Hermansstraat 91, Amsterdam, Netherlands. The Netherlands is an EU member state, a NATO member, and a signatory to MLAT agreements that enable legal cooperation with the United States, United Kingdom, and other major jurisdictions. Dutch courts can compel disclosure of customer data, and EU-level instruments — including the European Investigation Order — allow cross-border data requests. HostKey explicitly enforces EU AML and KYC requirements; customer identity is verified and retained. Crypto payments do not provide anonymity here because they are processed through BitPay, which holds a verified identity record tied to each payment. Physical server location in Iceland does not change the legal relationship, which is governed by Dutch law. For buyers seeking genuine offshore legal structure, HostKey is the wrong category of provider.

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