How does Copperstrait work, from order to a running server?

What does the team do after I order?

Nothing is automatic: a person builds your server once the payment is confirmed.

• Preparation: Someone on the team sets the machine up once your payment is confirmed, within 72 hours, so delivery is not instant; the dashboard tracks it until the IP address shows.
• Disks: On two-disk servers the system is mirrored in software RAID 1 unless you ask support, before delivery, for RAID 0 or separate disks.
• Login: Root over SSH from the first minute: add a public key at checkout and password login stays disabled, or leave it out and a temporary root password comes with the server, to be changed when you first log in.
• Console: No IPMI or KVM-over-IP console is given to customers; the team runs the reboots and reinstalls you request in the dashboard.
• Later requests: Use the dashboard to ask for a reboot, a reinstall or a cancellation, and the team carries it out; a reinstall clears every disk.
• Fees: There is no setup fee, on the first order or on any renewal.

The clock on your paid days starts at delivery, not at payment. A server that cannot be prepared is never charged: its price stays on your balance.

How does Copperstrait choose the servers it compares against?

Every plan has a comparison floor, and only servers that reach it count. The floors are:

• Strait 16: at least 16 cores, 64 GB of memory and 1.9 TB of SSD or NVMe.
• Strait 32: at least 32 cores, 384 GB of memory and 3.8 TB of SSD or NVMe.
• Strait 32F: at least 32 cores, 384 GB of memory and 10 TB of SSD or NVMe.

A server must also pass rules on the host and on the plan. The host must accept crypto, ask for no ID at signup and not be under sanctions. The plan must be real bare metal with at least one IPv4 address and monthly billing. It must be shown in stock, with a port of 1 Gbit/s or more and at least 10 TB of traffic. Its processor must date from 2018 or later.

Of 950 Asian plans recorded on 2 November 2026, only 83 passed every rule. 58% belonged to hosts with no confirmed crypto payment for servers. Prices were read on public pages only, with no account and no order placed.

How are city surcharges and fees counted?

The price we compare is what the host charges in that city, surcharges and setup fees included. Some hosts add a fee per location on the order page, above the price their tables show. MonoVM's EPYC 7302 machine showed $135 as its base price, then $191 in Singapore and $478 in Tokyo on the order page.

• City surcharges: included, with one entry per city when prices differ.
• Setup fees: divided by twelve, then added to each month.
• Euro prices: converted at 1 EUR = 1.1172 USD (ECB, 2026-10-30).
• Excluded hosts: those that ask for ID at signup or take no crypto.

5 of the crypto hosts take payment through Cryptomus or Heleket, which the UK designated on 8 October 2026. They stay in the comparison.

Why does one price cover three cities?

The target is set against the cheapest city, so the same price wins in the other two. The cheapest server at the Strait 16 floor cost €310.00 ($346.33) in Hong Kong (RedSwitches), $191.00 in Singapore (MonoVM) and €354.00 ($395.49) in Tokyo (RedSwitches). Strait 16 costs $143.25 in each.

At the Strait 32F floor, no surveyed host sold a server in Hong Kong. The Singapore price, €989.00 ($1,104.91) at Cherry Servers, set the reference. The Hong Kong price page and the page on the cheapest dedicated server hosting in Asia show the city detail. Every plan is on the Copperstrait pricing page.

How does support work?

Support is email, read and answered by a person. Write to [email protected] about an order, a payment, SSH keys, RAID or a server that stopped. A person answers support emails within 12 hours, seven days a week, including help with SSH keys, RAID, reinstalls and firewall rules. Support works in English.

Reports of misuse go to [email protected], a separate inbox. Name a server by its order reference or its IP address. Nobody from our team will ever ask for your account number, your root password or your private SSH key, by email or in a chat. The contact page shows what a useful email contains.

What does Copperstrait not measure or promise?

We publish only what we can back with a source.

• Latency: We publish no latency or speed figures of our own: we have not measured them. Test from where your users are once the server is yours.
• Uptime: no figure is promised or published.
• Attacks: No DDoS mitigation is promised beyond what the datacenter network applies by itself.
• Backups: Backups are not part of the service: keep copies of your data on another machine.
• China routes: no CN2 line is sold. We do not serve residents or companies of Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, Russia, Belarus, China, Yemen or Western Sahara, nor the occupied regions of Ukraine.

Competitor prices on this site carry the date they were read. They change, so check the host's own page before you compare.