Monero Mining Pool VPS Hosting

A Monero mining pool has three principal components: a monerod full node, a stratum-compatible pool server, and a payout backend. The monerod node needs roughly 100 GB of NVMe storage for the blockchain at current size, 4 GB of RAM, and steady IOPS to keep up with block-template generation. The stratum pool server is relatively lightweight on CPU but maintains many simultaneous TCP connections to miners and benefits from a 1 Gbps uplink so that share submission latency stays low even at peak miner counts.

The payout backend handles wallet-rpc interactions to send Monero payouts to miners on the configured threshold. This component is the most security-sensitive part of the pool because it has direct access to the pool's hot wallet. Isolate the payout backend on a separate VPS, restrict inbound to a private network segment, and use the official monero-wallet-rpc with offline transaction signing where possible. AnubizHost supports private interconnect between VPS instances in the same node so operators can build this segmentation without exposing wallet-rpc to clearnet.

For a small to medium pool serving up to a few hundred miners, a 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM VPS for the node-plus-stratum combo and a separate 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM VPS for the payout backend is a reasonable starting point. Scale up the node VPS as the network's blockchain grows. Monero's chain has a steady growth rate that compounds over time, and operators should plan storage roughly 18 months ahead of current usage to avoid emergency resize windows.

Pool latency to miners is the single biggest determinant of effective hashrate at the pool level. A pool with high share-submission latency loses shares to stale-block windows and effectively reduces miner earnings, which drives miners to competing pools. AnubizHost offshore nodes are placed with direct uplinks to major IXPs in Europe and benefit from low latency to most European, Russian and Middle Eastern miner populations. For pools targeting other geographies, deploy stratum proxies in additional regions and have them connect back to the primary pool over an encrypted tunnel.

Stratum protocol tuning matters at the margin. Set the variable-difficulty algorithm to target one share every 20 to 30 seconds per miner; this is the sweet spot that balances pool-level work overhead against miner-side share validation. Configure the keepalive interval to detect dropped miner connections within 60 seconds, and set the maximum simultaneous connections per IP to a sane value to prevent botnets from overwhelming the pool with low-value connections.

Block template generation is the latency-critical inner loop. The pool server queries monerod for a fresh block template on every new height, and the share-validation path uses that template to verify submitted shares. Run monerod on the same VPS as the stratum server (or on the same private network at sub-millisecond latency) so that block-template fetches do not introduce stale-share windows. Avoid placing monerod on a different continent from the stratum server because every block-height transition would carry the round-trip latency penalty.

Pool operators have a heightened privacy posture because the pool wallet is a known endpoint that aggregates many miners' rewards. AnubizHost accepts XMR for hosting invoices through self-custodial rails, which lets operators settle their hosting bills directly from the pool's operations wallet without an additional payment hop. There is no KYC requirement and the billing record contains only the account email and the transaction hash.

At the hypervisor level we do not retain traffic captures, packet headers or netflow archives for pool customer traffic beyond live abuse triage. Stratum connections, wallet-rpc calls and inter-component traffic are not logged by the host. The pool's own access logs, miner connection records and share-validation traces are entirely under the operator's control and we have no visibility into them. The standard operator practice is to retain the minimum necessary share-submission record for payout calculation and to rotate that record on a 30-day cycle.

Jurisdiction choice for a Monero pool is straightforward. Iceland and Romania both tolerate cryptocurrency mining and pool operations without specific licensing requirements. The pool's onion address can be advertised as the primary endpoint with the clearnet stratum address as a fallback, which lets privacy-minded miners connect over Tor and removes IP-level metadata from the miner relationship. AnubizHost VPS plans support tor onion service hosting on the same VPS as the stratum endpoint with no additional configuration.