1984 Hosting, comparedOne jurisdiction, held firmly. We hold eight, separately.

1984 Hosting is named after the book for a reason and has behaved accordingly for longer than most of this market has existed. The difference worth your time is structural rather than moral.

7 minute read · Their pages last read 30 июля 2026 · Corrections welcome

The one you are looking at

1984 Hosting

Where
Iceland
Site
1984.hosting

What they are genuinely good at

  • A clear, long-held position on speech, and an Icelandic base that supports it.
  • Free-software commitments and openness about the stack, which very few hosts here bother with.
  • Straightforward pricing with no upsell architecture.

This estate

DediPrivacy

Where
eight jurisdictions, eight companies
Site
dediprivacy.com

What we publish that most do not

  • Every price, including bare metal, GPU by the second and colocation.
  • A signed warrant canary, a quarterly transparency report and the inventory of records that exist.
  • Mitigation on before an attack starts, and an SLA that credits itself from the incident record.

Row by row

What each of us publishes.

Not what each of us believes. Every row below is a page you can open on either site, or an answer that is not there.

Their column reflects their own public pages, read on 30 июля 2026. marks a thing we could not find published — it is not a claim that they do not do it.
Published? 1984 Hosting DediPrivacy
Sign up without identity documents No name, no address, no document, at any spend level. Partly Published
Settles in cryptocurrency Accepted as payment, not as a gift-card workaround. Published Published
Accepts Monero The only widely accepted asset that is private by default. Not published Published
Every price published The whole catalogue on a page, with no “contact us” tier. Published Published
Signed warrant canary Cryptographically signed, dated, and on a schedule. Not published Published
Transparency report with figures Notices received, and how many were acted on. Not published Published
Law-enforcement guide published The inventory of records that exist, before you ask. Partly Published
Log retention stated as a number Hours or days, not “minimal” or “as required”. Not published Published
A separate legal entity per jurisdiction So a judgment in one country does not reach the servers in another. No Published
Uptime SLA credited automatically Credited from the published incident record, with no claim form. Not published Published
DDoS mitigation included On every product, at no extra charge, with no protected-IP upsell. Not published Published
Bare metal, GPU and colocation Beyond virtual machines, on the same account and policy. Partly Published

On ten of the twelve rows above, this estate publishes an answer and we could not find one published there. Tell us if a row is wrong

One country is a position; eight companies are a structure

An Icelandic host in Iceland is answerable to Icelandic courts and nobody else, which is a clean and defensible arrangement. It also means one court, one company and one outcome: whatever a ruling reaches, it reaches all of it.

This estate spreads the same idea across eight jurisdictions, each held by a separate company on its own register. The intent is not to be harder to sue in the abstract. It is that content in Panama and content in Iceland cannot be reached by the same order, so a complainant who succeeds once has to start again.

Publishing, again

The pattern in the table repeats across almost every host on this list, and it is the honest core of why these pages exist. Most privacy hosts state a position. Very few publish a number.

A position tells you what a company believes. A number tells you what it does. This estate publishes how many demands arrived and how many produced anything, every quarter, including the quarters where the answer is zero — which is the only way the figure means anything when it stops being zero.

Questions people actually ask

Is Iceland better than the other seven?

For speech, Icelandic law is unusually good and we run a region there for that reason. For resisting a specific complainant, the useful question is which entity holds the server, which is what the entity list answers.

Do you also refuse to log?

We publish the retention figure rather than the sentiment: access logs are destroyed after 24 hours, and no IP history, netflow or disk contents are collected at all. It is on the privacy page in those words.

Buy theirs instead if

  • You want Iceland specifically, from an operator that has been in Iceland a long time.
  • Free-software alignment is part of why you are choosing a host at all.
  • Shared hosting or a single virtual machine is the whole of the requirement.

That list is here because a comparison that cannot name a reason to buy the other one is an advertisement. If any of those three is you, they are the better buy and this page has done its job.

Every price on this estate is published in full, in one place. See the whole catalogue