Cockbox, comparedCheap, Romanian, and Bitcoin-only. Then the questions start.

Cockbox is exactly what it looks like: a small Romanian VPS operation that takes Bitcoin, asks nothing, and charges very little. For a throwaway box that is a perfectly good answer and the price is hard to argue with.

6 minute read · Their pages last read 30 juillet 2026 · Corrections welcome

The one you are looking at

Cockbox

Where: Romania
Site: cockbox.org

What they are genuinely good at

Very low prices for a European virtual machine paid in Bitcoin.
Romania, which is outside the reach of a United States takedown notice.
No pretence: the site does not dress a small operation up as an enterprise.

This estate

DediPrivacy

Where: eight jurisdictions, eight companies
Site: dediprivacy.com

What we publish that most do not

Every price, including bare metal, GPU by the second and colocation.
A signed warrant canary, a quarterly transparency report and the inventory of records that exist.
Mitigation on before an attack starts, and an SLA that credits itself from the incident record.

Row by row

What each of us publishes.

Not what each of us believes. Every row below is a page you can open on either site, or an answer that is not there.

Their column reflects their own public pages, read on 30 juillet 2026. marks a thing we could not find published — it is not a claim that they do not do it.
Published?	Cockbox	DediPrivacy
Sign up without identity documents No name, no address, no document, at any spend level.	Published	Published
Settles in cryptocurrency Accepted as payment, not as a gift-card workaround.	Published	Published
Accepts Monero The only widely accepted asset that is private by default.	Not published	Published
Every price published The whole catalogue on a page, with no “contact us” tier.	Published	Published
Signed warrant canary Cryptographically signed, dated, and on a schedule.	Not published	Published
Transparency report with figures Notices received, and how many were acted on.	Not published	Published
Law-enforcement guide published The inventory of records that exist, before you ask.	Not published	Published
Log retention stated as a number Hours or days, not “minimal” or “as required”.	Not published	Published
A separate legal entity per jurisdiction So a judgment in one country does not reach the servers in another.	No	Published
Uptime SLA credited automatically Credited from the published incident record, with no claim form.	Not published	Published
DDoS mitigation included On every product, at no extra charge, with no protected-IP upsell.	Not published	Published
Bare metal, GPU and colocation Beyond virtual machines, on the same account and policy.	No	Published

On nine of the twelve rows above, this estate publishes an answer and we could not find one published there. Tell us if a row is wrong

The price is real and so is the trade

We are more expensive and there is no argument to make about that. What the difference buys is the part that only matters when something goes wrong: mitigation already on, an SLA that credits itself, and a published uptime record per region rather than a reputation.

Romania, and the rest of the map

Romania is a genuine answer to the DMCA question. It is one country and one company, so it is also one court. The eight regions here are eight separate companies, which is a different property and a more expensive one to maintain.

When cheap is the right answer

For a scraper, a tunnel endpoint, a test box or anything you would shrug at losing, paying for an SLA is paying for something you will never claim. Buy the cheap one. This page exists for the case where the machine matters.

Questions people actually ask

Do you have anything at that price?

Not at the very bottom, no. Our entry virtual machine is on the price list with everything else, and it is more than the cheapest thing in this market.

Is Bitcoin-only a problem?

It is a transparency problem rather than a privacy one: Bitcoin is a public ledger. Monero is the only widely accepted asset that is private by default, which is why it is on our payments page.

Buy theirs instead if

It is a throwaway box and the monthly price is the only number that matters.
Bitcoin is how you pay and a second asset would not help you.
Nothing depends on the machine being up next week.

That list is here because a comparison that cannot name a reason to buy the other one is an advertisement. If any of those three is you, they are the better buy and this page has done its job.

Every price on this estate is published in full, in one place. See the whole catalogue