Server locationsEight jurisdictions, chosen for their law.

Where a server sits decides who can compel its contents, and that is a legal question long before it is a technical one. These eight are on the list because of what it takes to reach them through a court — not because a map looked balanced.

edge capacity1,960 Gbit

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Same price everywhere · Move between them with one API call

The estate

One price, whichever you pick.

A region never costs more than another here. Charging a premium for the jurisdiction that protects you best would be charging for the thing we say we are for, so the price list is flat and the choice is yours to make on the merits.

jurisdictions

1,960

Gbit to the edge

internet exchanges

1.2 Tbit/s

mitigation, always on

Reykjavík

Iceland · KEF

Flagship Operational

Iceland writes press freedom into statute. The IMMI resolution of 2010 directed the state to build the strongest source-protection and intermediary-liability regime it could, and the resulting law is why publishers who cannot be hosted elsewhere are hosted here.

Best for: Anything that expects to be complained about. Press, leaks, archives, mirrors.
Facility: Purpose-built, N+1 power and cooling, seismic-rated
Power: 100 % geothermal and hydroelectric — not offset, generated
Uplink: 2 × 100 Gbit, unmetered
Exchanges: RIX
Transit: Multiple tier-1 and regional carriers

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Bucharest

Romania · OTP

Core Operational

Romania has no general data-retention obligation: the Constitutional Court struck the transposition of the EU directive down in 2009 and again in 2014, and nothing equivalent replaced it.

Best for: Bulk capacity inside the EU without the EU-average disclosure posture.
Facility: Carrier-neutral campus, N+1, dense south-east European transit
Power: Grid with N+1 UPS and generator, dual utility feed
Uplink: 4 × 100 Gbit, unmetered
Exchanges: InterLAN · RONIX
Transit: Multiple tier-1 and regional carriers

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Sofia

Bulgaria · SOF

Core Operational

Abuse handling is done locally and on its merits. Bulgarian hosts are not obliged to act on a foreign notice, and the courts have to be asked in Bulgaria.

Best for: The cheapest EU floor space we would put a customer on.
Facility: Tier III-equivalent, N+1, low-cost EU capacity
Power: Grid with N+1 UPS and generator
Uplink: 2 × 100 Gbit, unmetered
Exchanges: BIX.BG
Transit: Multiple tier-1 and regional carriers

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Chișinău

Moldova · KIV

Offshore Operational

Moldova is outside the European Union entirely, so the disclosure directives and the retention debates simply do not reach it. A request has to arrive through Moldovan process or not at all.

Best for: The furthest outside EU reach while still being a two-hour flight from it.
Facility: Independent facility, N+1, no EU jurisdiction
Power: Grid with N+1 UPS and generator
Uplink: 2 × 40 Gbit, unmetered
Exchanges: MD-IX
Transit: Regional carriers with diverse paths west and east

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Zurich

Switzerland · ZRH

Core Operational

The Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection, and a legal culture in which access to hosted data is a matter for a judge rather than a letter. Foreign judgments are not self-executing here.

Best for: When the point is that a court has to be convinced first.
Facility: Tier III+, N+1 throughout, physical security to banking standard
Power: Hydroelectric-dominant grid, N+1 UPS and generator
Uplink: 2 × 100 Gbit, unmetered
Exchanges: SwissIX · CIXP
Transit: Multiple tier-1 carriers

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Amsterdam

Netherlands · AMS

Core Operational

The Netherlands has the densest interconnection in Europe and a notice regime that still requires a court for anything contested. It is the fastest place on this list, not the most sheltered.

Best for: Latency to Europe, and to anywhere reached through Europe.
Facility: Carrier-neutral, AMS-IX adjacent, N+1 throughout
Power: Grid with N+1 UPS and generator, dual utility feed
Uplink: 6 × 100 Gbit, unmetered
Exchanges: AMS-IX · NL-ix · SpeedIX
Transit: Multiple tier-1 carriers

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Panama City

Panama · PTY

Offshore Operational

Panama imposes no general data-retention obligation on hosts and is not a party to the European instruments. It is also the shortest path from our estate to Latin America.

Best for: The Americas, without American jurisdiction.
Facility: Carrier-neutral, N+1, submarine-cable landing adjacency
Power: Grid with N+1 UPS and generator
Uplink: 2 × 40 Gbit, unmetered
Exchanges: Panama-IX
Transit: Regional carriers with diverse subsea paths

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Singapore

Singapore · SIN

Core Operational

Singapore is the interconnection point for the region. It is on this list for reach rather than for shelter, and we say so rather than dressing it up.

Best for: Asia-Pacific latency. Choose another region if jurisdiction is the point.
Facility: Carrier-neutral, N+1, major subsea landing adjacency
Power: Grid with N+1 UPS and generator, dual utility feed
Uplink: 2 × 100 Gbit, unmetered
Exchanges: SGIX · Equinix IX
Transit: Multiple tier-1 carriers

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How to actually choose one

Two questions decide it, and they pull in opposite directions. Most people get this wrong in the same way.

The mistake worth avoiding

Latency is the loud question. Jurisdiction is the one that ends you.

Forty milliseconds is a number you can feel and will forget about in a week. The law where your disks sit is a number you never feel until the morning it decides everything. If the work could ever attract a complaint, pick on the law and put a cache in front of it. If it could not, pick the nearest region and stop thinking about it.

How a takedown is handled here

No premium for the safe ones Iceland costs what Amsterdam costs. We do not price the protection separately.
No lock to the region you picked Virtual instances move between any two with one API call, at no charge.
No published latency figures We have not measured yours. The looking glass gives you the targets to measure it.

On thirteen internet exchanges

Where a region has an exchange, we are on it. Peering shortens the path for your visitors and costs them nothing.

AMS-IX
BIX.BG
CIXP
Equinix IX
InterLAN
MD-IX
NL-ix
Panama-IX
RIX
RONIX
SGIX
SpeedIX
SwissIX

Our peering policy is open: any network, at any exchange we share, without a ratio requirement. The transit and peering page has the detail, including RPKI, IRR objects and the communities you can send us.

About the regions.

Does a region cost more than another?

No. Every product on the price list is the same figure in all eight regions. Charging extra for the jurisdiction that shelters you best would be charging for the thing this company exists to provide, so we do not.

Can I move a server between them later?

Virtual instances migrate between any two regions with a single API call and no change in price — the disk is copied, the address changes, and you are told the new one. Bare metal is a physical move, arranged with the network team inside a maintenance window you pick.

Which one should I choose?

If the work could ever attract a legal complaint, choose on the law: Iceland, Moldova, Switzerland or Panama, and put a cache in front of it for speed. If it could not, choose the region nearest your visitors — usually Amsterdam for Europe, Singapore for Asia, Panama for the Americas.

Why do you not publish latency figures?

Because we would be making them up. Latency is a measurement between two points, and one of those points is you. The looking glass publishes the targets for each region so you can measure the number that actually applies to you rather than trust one that does not.

Is my data replicated between regions?

Only where you ask for it. A server lives in the region you chose and nowhere else, which is the point of choosing. Object storage can replicate to a second jurisdiction you nominate, and private clusters can span two regions — both are things you switch on, never defaults.

What happens if a region has to close?

You are told before it is announced anywhere else, with at least ninety days to move and free migration to any other region, including a pro-rata refund of anything prepaid. A region leaving this list has never been something we would let a customer discover from a status page.