Voltage.cloud

[OmegaStarScream]

Has anyone here used this service before? whether it was for BTCPayServer hosting or LN nodes. I'd like to hear some feedback, and maybe a comparison between them and some other similar services.

[Pmalek]

The only person who has mentioned this particular site on Bitcointalk is BitGoba on our local Croatian forum a few days ago. This is the post. He came out of nowhere and has started writing good posts. I don't know if he has any personal experience with the mentioned service, but you can always PM him and ask.

[dkbit98]

Has anyone here used this service before? whether it was for BTCPayServer hosting or LN nodes. I'd like to hear some feedback, and maybe a comparison between them and some other similar services.

I never tried it, but I checked their pricing and it could be interesting if you want to run light node on Tor with BTCPayserver, but for anything more serious it's way to expensive.
Maybe try sending PM to BitGoba, he is our local Lightning Network expert and I think he tried everything currently available for LN
Interesting thing about VoltageCloud is that Alphabet invested a lot of money in their business.

[DaveF]

The question is what HW are they hosting on, what it the back end connection and where are they hosting?
They have a nice website but......
I can have a BTCPay server up and running in a VM on my home PC on behind a cable modem in less then an hour since I have an image that is almost up to date handy.
It would be sitting on an external USB drive with no redundancy. I will give that to you for $7.50 a month.....do you really want that?
Setting something up in the AMZN cloud or similar will be different.

I don't see a physical address or anything else so I would be wary.

Come to think about it https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5364742.0 I'll host one of these for $5.00 a month.........

-Dave

[LeGaulois]

I don't see a physical address or anything else so I would be wary.

You probably missed it, but it is written on the site

Voltage Incorporated
1050 S Sagebrush St
Wichita, KS 67230
Email Address: support @voltage.cloud
Telephone number: 620-755-1703

Sure that the cost can easily be lowered but there are surely people who prefer to pay for a "ready to go" solution. It will certainly become a niche later on.
When you see the electricity price in some countries, it can be cheaper to run a server. If you spend $3 on electricity, well it could be better to buy a 3$ VPS with a 100 times better connection, and maybe a "better security"

what HW are they hosting on, what it the back end connection and where are they hosting

I don't know the specs of the HW, but I know that Lite and Standard nodes are hosted on shared HW, while Pro nodes are on dedicated servers.
Servers are located in The United States

[DaveF]

I don't see a physical address or anything else so I would be wary.

You probably missed it, but it is written on the site

Voltage Incorporated
1050 S Sagebrush St
Wichita, KS 67230
Email Address: support @voltage.cloud
Telephone number: 620-755-1703

I checked the usual spots, the main page, the about us page and the contact us page and did not see it. So either their site is not mobile friendly or I just missed it.
However, looking at that address it is someones house not even an office in a strip mall or one of those shared office places, just a house.

Sure that the cost can easily be lowered but there are surely people who prefer to pay for a "ready to go" solution. It will certainly become a niche later on.
When you see the electricity price in some countries, it can be cheaper to run a server. If you spend $3 on electricity, well it could be better to buy a 3$ VPS with a 100 times better connection, and maybe a "better security"

what HW are they hosting on, what it the back end connection and where are they hosting

I don't know the specs of the HW, but I know that Lite and Standard nodes are hosted on shared HW, while Pro nodes are on dedicated servers.
Servers are located in The United States

Could be the way they do their marketing, but the way the pricing is shown (per hour with a per month price) looks like they are just spinning up machines on the Amazon or Google cloud (or similar) not saying that is bad but if it's a well known cloud good cloud provider that's fine. If it's DaveF hosting it's a different story.

Don't get me wrong I like seeing more things like this in the BTC space. But without more info this service may or may not be worth it.

-Dave

[LeGaulois]

I did the same too and finally got it from the ToS or Privacy page (I don't remember since)
Didn't check the address, to be honest, but if it's just a household it makes me think that the person is a freelancer (or alike), working alone at home. But hey, who started in the garage? Wasn't it Bill Gates or Steeve Jobs?

Yeah, the infrastructure could be outsourced, but the business model with a pay-per-hour price is also popular in the Hosting niche (AWS, Digital Ocean, etc...) However, if Alphabet invested money in Voltage, as mentioned above, I doubt it has been done for a guy with servers in the garage