How to pay for hosting?

Question

Hetzner

Hetzner does not have many payment methods for their invoices, these are:

• PayPal - no longer available
  
• Сredit card - "Mir" is not on the lists, the rest went the way of Paypal
  

Bank transfer, as I understand it, is a bank transfer.
But I don't really understand how it works and under what conditions.

I have Mir cards in Sberbank.

Can you clarify the situation: how can you pay for server services now and if it is a Bank transfer, how does it work?

Answer 1

Try a bank transfer.
Find a list of banks that were not sanctioned and SWIFT turned off
. You can also try to pay with VISA savings, I still had a roll today.
In savings, you can make a Wirt card in 2 seconds, transfer money to it and try to pay
PS I didn’t think at all that someone uses MIR cards except for state ones))) they don’t work anywhere abroad))

Answer 2

Bank transfer, as I understand it, is a bank transfer.
But I don't really understand how it works and under what conditions.

Regular bank transfer using bank details.
Of course, it won’t work from the savings, because it was disconnected from the swift.

Answer 3

Сredit card - "Mir" is not in the lists

Check if UnionPay is there. With a high probability it should be, because, at least for American hosters, the Chinese are welcome customers.
After that, open a co-badged card with UnionPay - now there are banks that already offer this, and many are going to start doing this in the very near future.
Or make a pre-fund (depositing money into the account) before midnight Wednesday / Thursday - until this time the cards will work.

Answer 4

To the answer to the question "But how does it work if Russia was disconnected from SWIFT". And SWIFT is a simplification of the communication system between banks. Roughly speaking, this is a simplification of work for girls-stuffers who register movements in accounts. Disconnecting from SWIFT is such a petty zapadlo that hits the bank teller. But banks can easily work without SWIFT at all, only account movements are now stretched out in time due to a return to the human factor.
Regarding Hetzner and payment for Hetzner services using funds on MasterCard from Sberbank of Russia
I received an invoice from Hetzner by mail on 03/22/2022. But as usual, I'm in no hurry.
03/23/2022 through the personal account of Sberbank (MasterCard from SB) according to the data from the bank transfer option (where the details of the Hetzner bank are indicated, there is such an option in the Hetzner personal account) at 16:00 (GMT + 3) I made a transfer abroad with the available hosts in Hetzner, there I have three separate virtuals paying for one common invoice. In the translation notes, he indicated: "Hosting services Customer ID: blah blah blah Invoice n. blah blah blah".
An hour later, I received an SMS about the approval of the transfer by Sberbank. An hour later, an SMS was received that the money transfer had been completed.
The payment is also visible in the payment history: approved, transferred, received to the recipient's account - in separate lines in the history.
Until 10:00 (GMT+3) on 03/24/2022, the invoice was listed as unpaid in the Hetzner personal account. At 10:30 03/24/2022, the debt was closed in Hetzner's personal account.
It is noteworthy that in the Sberbank client on a mobile phone and on a computer, it was also impossible to get a so-called transfer receipt in the personal account of Sberbank. The transfer receipt became available at the same time as Hetzner's confirmation of receipt of funds against the invoice.