Locations & jurisdictions

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.

Singapore for Southeast Asia and India, Tokyo for Japan and Korea, Hong Kong for Greater China, and Mumbai for the subcontinent. Singapore is the safest single choice: more than fifteen submarine cables land there, giving predictable latency across the whole region.

São Paulo for Brazil — IX.br is the largest exchange in the southern hemisphere and nothing else comes close for Brazilian users. Miami for the rest of the region, since most Latin American cables land there. Panama City if you want regional latency plus an offshore jurisdiction, and Santiago or Bogotá for Andean coverage.

Johannesburg for southern Africa — NAPAfrica is by far the largest exchange on the continent. Lagos for West Africa, Nairobi for East Africa, and Cairo or Casablanca for the north. Dubai is often faster than any African location for East Africa, because of how cable routing actually works.

Nassau in the Bahamas is roughly 45 ms from Miami, and Panama City about 60 ms — both outside US jurisdiction, outside the Eyes alliances, and with no DMCA applicability. Toronto and Montreal are closer still but Canada is a Five Eyes member, so they solve latency without solving jurisdiction.

Yes — it has the strongest and best-tested statutory framework in our fleet. Swiss law treats hosted data much like correspondence, so disclosure requires Swiss judicial process rather than a foreign administrative request. Switzerland is not in the EU and not in the Five, Nine or Fourteen Eyes alliances. It is also our most expensive region.

Yes, and it is where OnionVPS started. Panama is outside every intelligence-sharing alliance, imposes no general data-retention obligation on hosting providers, and is not subject to the DMCA. It also sits on the submarine cable crossroads between North and South America, so latency to both is genuinely good.

Yes, particularly for publishing and journalism. Iceland is in none of the Eyes alliances, has unusually strong constitutional speech protection developed under the IMMI framework, runs on essentially entirely geothermal and hydroelectric power, and gets free cooling year-round. The cost is about 20–30 ms of extra latency to mainland Europe.

OnionVPS operates 138 locations across 116 countries and 8 regions, including offshore and privacy-tier jurisdictions such as Panama, Seychelles, Switzerland, Iceland, Moldova, Curaçao, Belize and Mauritius. Twenty-nine locations are offshore or privacy-tier, and 107 sit outside every Eyes alliance. Every location runs the same platform and the same no-KYC signup.