Offshore VPS in Sofia, Bulgaria
Our lowest-cost region. Good Balkan and Middle-East routing, no Fourteen Eyes membership.
- Data retention
- Partially struck down (2015); narrow scope, telecom only
- Outside EU jurisdiction
- Outside Fourteen Eyes
- DMCA does not apply
- MLAT speed
- moderate
Substantiated Art. 16 DSA report, or a Bulgarian court order
- Uplink
- 20 Gbps
- DDoS scrubbing
- Always-on L3/L4, 1 Tbps scrubbing
- IPv6
- /64 free, /48 available
- Example IPv4 (RFC 5737, not routable)
- 192.0.2.5
- Classification
- Tier III
- Power
- Grid + N+1
- Hardware
- Colocated
- Price factor
- ×0.88
Round-trip times from Sofia
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 Bulgaria
The legal analysis for Bulgaria 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 Bulgaria 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 Bulgaria a removal follows from these, and only these:
- a report under Article 16 of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 substantiated well enough to be actionable — we assess it, you are told what arrived, and anything we do comes with a statement of reasons and a route to appeal
- an order from a court in Bulgaria
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 ×0.88, applied to the whole configuration. Transit is cheap here, so the saving goes to you rather than into our margin. The table below applies it to every plan, and the configurator applies it to custom builds the same way.
Every plan, at the Sofia factor
What each plan costs once the ×0.88 Sofia 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.
Sofia questions
Is hosting in Bulgaria private?
Data retention: Partially struck down (2015); narrow scope, telecom only. Content takedown: Substantiated Art. 16 DSA report, or a Bulgarian court order. Bulgaria is inside EU jurisdiction, so the Digital Services Act applies, and is not part of the Five, Nine or Fourteen Eyes intelligence-sharing arrangements. Mutual legal assistance is moderate here. The full assessment, with the method behind those ratings, is published on the Jurisdiction Matrix.
How fast is a Sofia server?
The Sofia region runs a 20 Gbps uplink peering with BIX.BG, Neterra, Cogent. Expected round-trip times, estimated from cable and peering geography rather than measured: Frankfurt ~32 ms, Istanbul ~18 ms, Vienna ~22 ms, London ~45 ms.
What does a server in Sofia cost?
The Sofia regional factor is ×0.88, applied to the whole configuration rather than to a line item. Our entry plan is €3.87 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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