Locations & jurisdictions
Which VPS location is best for European users?
Frankfurt or Amsterdam for the lowest latency — DE-CIX and AMS-IX are the two densest exchanges in Europe and both reach most of the continent inside 25 ms. If you want European latency without a Fourteen Eyes jurisdiction, Sofia, Bucharest or Chișinău are the practical answers, at a cost of about 10–20 ms.
Germany and the Netherlands win on connectivity and lose on jurisdiction: Germany is a Fourteen Eyes member and the Netherlands a Nine Eyes member. Bulgaria and Romania are EU members outside the alliances, and Moldova is outside the EU entirely.
For Iberia use Madrid or Lisbon; Lisbon additionally lands the EllaLink cable, giving roughly 60 ms straight to Brazil. For the Nordics use Stockholm or Helsinki. For Eastern Europe, Warsaw and Bucharest have the best onward routes.
See also: Fourteen Eyes
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