Europe
Made in Europe: why it matters for hosting.
Where a hosting company is built shapes the defaults of the product it ships. x402-hosting is designed in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and its defaults — minimal data collection, fixed transparent prices, prepaid terms — follow from that. Deployment is one command, hosting is $0.20 per project-day, and no account is required.
Jurisdiction and culture shape products
A product's defaults are rarely accidents. They reflect what the team considers normal: what data a business should hold about its customers, how prices should be presented, and how a relationship should end. A company built in Europe tends to start from restraint — collect less, state terms plainly, and let the customer leave without a process. x402-hosting is an instance of that pattern, designed in Amsterdam and operated for builders anywhere.
Default one: minimal data collection
There are no accounts, so there is no account database. No name, email, password, or card is collected at any point. The only identity attached to a project is the wallet address that paid for it, and that is the whole of the customer record. Less data held means less data to manage, protect, or lose — and a customer relationship that consists of payments, not profiles.
Default two: fixed, transparent prices
- Hosting: $0.20 per project-day, prepaid in USDC
- Thirty days: $6.01 in total, including the $0.01 upload
- Redeploy, rollback, transfer, delete: $0.01 each
- Renewal: $0.20 × additional project-days
- Status and deployment-history reads: free
Every price is published on the pricing page, and the HTTP 402 payment challenge is the authoritative quote before any wallet signs. There are no tiers, no list prices discounted by negotiation, and no metered surprises at the end of a month. A price you can compute in your head is a default too.
Default three: prepaid, not dark-pattern renewals
Hosting time is bought in advance, from 1 to 730 days per payment. Nothing renews automatically because nothing is stored that could renew. When time runs out, a 30-day grace window lets you renew and republish at the same URL; after that, the project is gone. Ending the relationship requires no cancellation flow — you simply do not renew. The defaults do the work that retention emails and downgrade offers do elsewhere.
The same defaults, operable by agents
These defaults also make the service straightforward for software agents to operate: one command to deploy, free reads to verify, fixed prices to budget against. The HTTP 402 payment challenge is the authoritative quote before any wallet signs, and local builds run before payment, so a failed build costs nothing. The about page describes how the product is shaped like an agent task.
$ npx x402-hosting@latest deploy --days 30