Best Storage VPS in 2026 — No KYC, Crypto, From $24

Eight storage hosts scored on privacy, root and price: 1–5 TB NVMe, XMR/USDT/BTC, no documents. NulNet from $24/mo annual — full table inside.

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TL;DR — the storage ranking

Eight hosts can keep a large private archive online, and the workload picks the winner: encrypted backups under your own key, a Nextcloud or Immich library, a seedbox that moves terabytes, a mirrored dataset. We score all eight against seven weighted criteria — no-KYC 25%, crypto 20%, root access 15%, performance 15%, footprint 10%, price 10%, extras 5% — and every price was re-verified 2026-09-21 on the provider's public pricing page.

Pricing verified 2026-09-21 directly on each provider's site (this pass added ultra.cc and RapidSeedbox rows). The score column is our editorial weighted sum of the criteria printed below; we buy no placement and run no affiliate links — we sell NulNet and say so openly. Hyperscalers that force KYC (OVH, Scaleway, AWS and peers) sit outside the table: an ID-gated account cannot serve private storage by definition.

Sum the weights and NulNet finishes first at 9.4/10 — no other row in the table puts a whole root KVM machine, 1–5 TB NVMe, unmetered 2.5–10 Gbps ports, document-free signup and Monero next to fifteen other coins (USDT across four networks, BNB, XRP, GRAM/TON, DOGE, DASH, ADA…) on a single invoice. Need only cheap attachable capacity? BuyVM wins that race. Judging raw €/TB and nothing else? Hetzner wins — by handing you a protocol-only box behind full identity checks.

How we ranked: seven weighted criteria

Seven criteria carry the ranking. A “storage VPS” here means a machine you administer that holds bulk data online — backups, Nextcloud, media libraries, seedboxes, dataset hosting. The weights lean toward private storage: what a checkout reveals about you counts for more than a couple of euros saved per month.

Provider-by-provider breakdown

1. NulNet — 9.4/10

The Storage line treats big NVMe as the point of the machine rather than an afterthought. Depot 1 ($24/mo annual-eff, $30 list): 2 vCPU on EPYC 7443P, 8 GB DDR4 ECC, 1 TB NVMe, unmetered 2.5 Gbps. The ladder tops out at Depot 5 ($56/mo annual-eff, $70 list): 8 vCPU on EPYC 9454P, 32 GB DDR5 ECC, 5 TB NVMe, unmetered 10 Gbps. Root comes standard, as do 1 IPv4 + /64, editable PTR, DDoS filtering and snapshots as an add-on. Signup asks for a token (no email at all) or an email plus a 12-character password — never a passport, selfie or phone — and the invoice quotes live rates in Monero, BTC, or USDT on any of four networks. All twenty-one locations across Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa carry the same list price.

Why it tops the table: measured strictly per TB, a disk slab undercuts it — but no other row hands you a root NVMe server with 8–32 GB ECC, unmetered multi-gigabit transit, checkout without documents and XMR on the same plan. For private-storage workloads (Nextcloud, Synapse media, backups, seedboxes, research datasets) that bundle is the product. Ready-made playbooks cover self-hosting Nextcloud, and when 5 TB stops being enough the dedicated storage server path continues the ladder with 4×4 TB drives.

2. BuyVM (Frantech) — 7.6/10

Where it wins: nobody sells bulk bits cheaper — Block Storage Slabs come in 256 GB pieces at $1.25/mo (call it $5 per TB), crypto is taken, the Luxembourg operator is privacy-friendly, and DDoS filtering ships free. Where it loses: a slab only attaches to a VM you already rent there, so storage alone is unbuyable; the capacity lives on enterprise HDD with an NVMe cache instead of pure NVMe; and the footprint stops at three datacenters (Las Vegas, New Jersey, Luxembourg). A superb cheap-disk play — and a different animal from a root NVMe server.

3. FlokiNET — 7.1/10

Where it wins: a privacy culture few match — cash-by-mail, Monero, KYC off by default — with VPS plans in Iceland and Romania fitted with roomy disks. Where it loses: setup is manual, the disk ladder climbs less far than a purpose-built storage line, the whole map is four locations, and nothing in the catalog answers a 2.5–10 Gbps unmetered storage SKU.

4. 1984 Hosting — 6.7/10

Where it wins: Icelandic jurisdiction, Monero taken, privacy branding that survives scrutiny, and a backup/storage VPS niche it actually serves. Where it loses: one country on the map, a compact catalog without high-bandwidth unmetered ports, and no ladder beyond modest sizes.

5. Contabo — 4.9/10

Where it wins: the price tag — a Storage VPS with 1 TB SSD lands near $5.50–6.60/mo with full root and fair specs. Where it loses: cryptocurrencies are absent from checkout entirely (cards and PayPal only), identity checks surface on part of the orders, the network leans EU-heavy, and cheap tiers ship capped ports — three separate disqualifiers for private storage.

6. Hetzner — 4.8/10

Where it wins: untouchable €/TB when dumb capacity is the whole job — Storage Box spans 1 TB at €3.20 to 20 TB at €40.60/mo, traffic unlimited. Where it loses: a Storage Box is protocol access (SMB/SFTP/rsync/Borg), never a shell, never your stack; the account passes identity verification; payment runs card/PayPal/SEPA; and the law in play is German or Finnish. A polished tool for public backups, the wrong one for private storage.

Where Hetzner is genuinely better

Honesty means printing Hetzner's three best numbers: €3.20 buys 1 TB, €40.60 buys 20 TB, and traffic never meters — about a fifth of any root-server equivalent per terabyte. Choose Hetzner when three things hold together: the data is non-sensitive, access stays protocol-shaped (SMB/rsync/Borg), and an ID-verified account paid by card bothers nobody. Their snapshot scheduling is genuinely slick. The moment one leg fails — you need root, coins, or no ID — the Storage Box exits the shortlist and the ranking above takes over.

Decision tree: which storage provider fits

Six branches, in the order buyers actually arrive at them:

1. Private storage under your control — Nextcloud, media server, backups, seedbox — minus KYC and plus crypto → NulNet (Storage from $24/mo annual-eff, NVMe, unmetered).
2. Rock-bottom per-TB disk hanging off a small VPS you already rent → BuyVM Storage Slabs.
3. Public, insensitive archives where price rules and identity is a non-issue → Hetzner Storage Box.
4. Iceland-only privacy storage payable in physical cash → 1984 Hosting or FlokiNET.
5. Root machine with a fat disk, card payment fine, EU presence wanted → Contabo.
6. All of the above plus multi-region choice, XMR and DDoS folded in → NulNet.

When to NOT pick NulNet for storage

Two cases where a rival honestly wins. First: a warm archive past roughly 10 TB where €/TB is the only metric and the data is mundane — Hetzner or a home NAS deliver capacity at a fraction of NVMe pricing. Second: you want the desk to run the client for you — ultra.cc and RapidSeedbox sell exactly that managed seedbox, while NulNet hands over root and expects you to point qBittorrent yourself. And if the threat model includes process from Germany or Finland, Hetzner leaves the list on jurisdiction, not on price.

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Payment and backup deep-dives

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Methodology notes and sources

Pricing re-verified 2026-09-21 against public provider pages (see Primary sources). The “storage VPS” score weights privacy and control above raw €/TB because the ranking serves private storage; the economics of public backups appear inside each breakdown instead. We refresh this page whenever a provider moves on price or policy.