Offshore VPS in Reykjavík, Iceland
Constitutional free-speech protections, no retention mandate reaching hosting providers, 100% geothermal and hydro power. Our flagship region.
- Data retention
- No general retention mandate for hosting providers
- Outside EU jurisdiction
- Outside Fourteen Eyes
- DMCA does not apply
- MLAT speed
- slow
Court order from an Icelandic court only
- Uplink
- 40 Gbps
- DDoS scrubbing
- Always-on L3/L4, 2.4 Tbps scrubbing
- IPv6
- /64 free, /48 available
- Example IPv4 (RFC 5737, not routable)
- 192.0.2.1
- Classification
- Tier III
- Power
- 100% renewable (geothermal + hydro)
- Hardware
- Owned by VPSDEN
- Price factor
- ×1.00
Round-trip times from Reykjavík
Estimated from cable and peering geography. We run no probe fleet, so none of these has been timed end to end — treat them as an order of magnitude and measure from your own vantage point.
Our assessment of Iceland
The legal analysis for Iceland is published once, in the Jurisdiction Matrix, alongside the other eight regions and the method behind the ratings — so there is one version to correct rather than two that drift apart. Read the Iceland assessment.
What a copyright complaint does here
It is acknowledged inside 24 hours, logged, and forwarded to you. Nothing is removed and no instance is suspended on the complaint itself. In Iceland a removal follows from one thing, and only this:
- an order from a court in Iceland
A notice under 17 U.S.C. § 512 is not on that list. That section conditions a United States liability shield we do not hold — no US entity, infrastructure, bank account or assets — and it carries no extraterritoriality provision. The copyright policy sets out the rest of the procedure, including what we tell a complainant and what we do not.
Pricing in this region
The regional factor is ×1.00, applied to the whole configuration. This is our reference region — the base against which every other factor is set. The table below applies it to every plan, and the configurator applies it to custom builds the same way.
Every plan, at the Reykjavík factor
What each plan costs once the ×1.00 Reykjavík factor is applied. Specifications, included features and the configurator are on the plans page — they are identical in every region, so only the price is worth restating here.
Reykjavík questions
Is hosting in Iceland private?
Data retention: No general retention mandate for hosting providers. Content takedown: Court order from an Icelandic court only. Iceland is outside EU jurisdiction, and is not part of the Five, Nine or Fourteen Eyes intelligence-sharing arrangements. Mutual legal assistance is slow here. The full assessment, with the method behind those ratings, is published on the Jurisdiction Matrix.
How fast is a Reykjavík server?
The Reykjavík region runs a 40 Gbps uplink peering with RIX, Farice-1, IRIS, Cogent, Arelion. Expected round-trip times, estimated from cable and peering geography rather than measured: London ~21 ms, Amsterdam ~27 ms, New York ~42 ms, Frankfurt ~30 ms.
What does a server in Reykjavík cost?
The Reykjavík regional factor is ×1.00, applied to the whole configuration rather than to a line item. Our entry plan is €4.40 per month here; every plan and its price at this factor is listed on this page, and the configurator applies the same factor to custom builds.
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