On-chain BTC still works. Lightning is better for $6–20 monthly plans. This list is VPS hosts tagged for Bitcoin or Lightning checkout, sorted by privacy score.
To buy a VPS with BTC without feeding a KYC exchange the hosting invoice, send coins to the host. BTCPay Server and in-house Bitcoin Core / SHKeeper setups are the cleanest path. BitPay is the opposite: an account, often identity, then a deposit.
Lightning Network invoices confirm in seconds and do not litter the chain with a standing order to a known hosting xpub — useful when you rotate providers. Filter Lightning if on-chain fees would eat the first month. The filtered host list is on Lightning VPS.
Resellers of DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, and Hetzner exist specifically so you can pay BTC while the upstream still wants a card. Read whether they are a named reseller or a Mullvad-style token account; the privacy properties are not the same.