Skiff 2
$ 7 /month
- vCPU
- 1 × shared
- RAM
- 2 GB
- Storage
- 40 GB NVMe SSD
- Transfer
- 3 TB
- IPv4 / IPv6
- 1 / /64 routed
🇰🇼 Middle East
VPS hosting in Kuwait City
Northern Gulf coverage.
EdgeNo Eyes allianceOutside GDPR territoryDMCA not applicable10 Gbit/s
Short answer
Yes. OnionVPS offers VPS hosting in Kuwait City, Kuwait, without KYC—an email address is the only identifier required. Kuwait is not part of the Five, Nine, or Fourteen Eyes intelligence-sharing alliances, so your traffic isn't automatically shared with those partners. The DMCA does not apply here; it's a US statute, and local copyright law generally requires a court order. Entry price is $4 per month.
- City
- Kuwait City
- Country
- 🇰🇼 Kuwait (KW)
- Region
- Middle East
- Tier
- Edge
- Intelligence alliance
- Not a member of the Five, Nine or Fourteen Eyes alliances
- GDPR applies
- No
- DMCA applies
- Not applicable — DMCA is US statute
- Online since
- 2024
- Uplink
- 10 Gbit/s
- Capabilities
- DDoS scrubbing · Native IPv6 /64 · NVMe storage
- Coordinates
- 29.38, 47.99
Why hosting in Kuwait City looks the way it does
Kuwait City sits 8 ms from our Manama region, 9 ms from Riyadh, and 10 ms from Doha—making it a natural hub for Northern Gulf coverage. The facility runs a 10 Gbit/s uplink with DDoS scrubbing, native IPv6 /64, and NVMe storage. Because Kuwait is outside Western intelligence alliances and not bound by the DMCA, the legal posture differs sharply from US or UK hosting. We've operated here since 2024.
People deploy latency-sensitive services for the Gulf: trading bots that need low round-trip times to regional exchanges, game servers for players in Kuwait or nearby, and IoT backends collecting telemetry from devices across the Northern Gulf. The 56 ms to Frankfurt and 92 ms to Singapore keeps traffic regional, not routed through the US. These workloads thrive on the included always-on DDoS mitigation.
Plans available in Kuwait City
Cutter 8
$ 34 /month
- vCPU
- 4 × dedicated
- RAM
- 8 GB
- Storage
- 160 GB NVMe SSD
- Transfer
- 10 TB
- IPv4 / IPv6
- 1 / /64 routed
Clipper 16
$ 92 /month
- vCPU
- 8 × dedicated
- RAM
- 16 GB
- Storage
- 400 GB NVMe Gen4 SSD
- Transfer
- 30 TB
- IPv4 / IPv6
- 1 / /64 routed
Hold 4
$ 22 /month
- vCPU
- 2 × shared
- RAM
- 4 GB
- Storage
- 2 TB Enterprise HDD
- Transfer
- 20 TB
- IPv4 / IPv6
- 1 / /64 routed
The hardened Bastion line is restricted to offshore and privacy-tier jurisdictions and is not available here.
Compare all plansEstimated round-trip latency from Kuwait City
| Location | Country | Estimated RTT |
|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇪 Dubai | United Arab Emirates | 14 ms |
| 🇩🇪 Frankfurt | Germany | 56 ms |
| 🇳🇱 Amsterdam | Netherlands | 61 ms |
| 🇬🇧 London | United Kingdom | 65 ms |
| 🇿🇦 Johannesburg | South Africa | 90 ms |
| 🇸🇬 Singapore | Singapore | 92 ms |
| 🇯🇵 Tokyo | Japan | 114 ms |
| 🇺🇸 New York | United States | 140 ms |
| 🇺🇸 Ashburn | United States | 144 ms |
| 🇧🇷 São Paulo | Brazil | 160 ms |
| 🇺🇸 Miami | United States | 161 ms |
| 🇦🇺 Sydney | Australia | 176 ms |
Estimates are computed from great-circle distance × 1.35 route factor, at 200 km/ms in fibre, plus 2 ms of equipment latency. They are a floor, not a measurement.
Frequently asked questions
Is Kuwait a good place to host a server?
Northern Gulf coverage.
Is Kuwait in the Five, Nine or Fourteen Eyes?
No. Kuwait is not a member of the Five, Nine or Fourteen Eyes intelligence-sharing alliances, which is one reason it appears in our edge tier.
Does the DMCA apply to a server in Kuwait?
No. The DMCA is United States copyright statute and binds service providers situated in the US. A server in Kuwait is governed by Kuwait copyright law, which generally requires a court order rather than a private notice. Copyright still applies; only the enforcement mechanism differs.
How fast is Kuwait City from Europe and North America?
Estimated round trips are approximately 56 ms to Frankfurt and 144 ms to Ashburn. These are computed from great-circle distance rather than measured, so treat them as a floor.
Do I need to identify myself to order in Kuwait City?
No. Every OnionVPS location has the same signup: an email address you control and a cryptocurrency payment. No name, no address, no document, no card.
What are the network latency figures to nearby regions?
Estimated round-trip times, great-circle estimates, put Frankfurt at 56 ms, Singapore at 92 ms, and Dubai at 14 ms. This means your traffic to Europe or Asia transits efficiently, without the long haul to North America. These are not measured values, but they reflect the facility's physical position in Kuwait City.
Is the server provisioned quickly after I sign up?
Provisioning takes 55 seconds. You sign up with just an email address you control—no name, no address, no document, no card. Once you've paid via cryptocurrency through OxaPay, your KVM instance boots on true virtualisation, not a container, with full root access and an out-of-band VNC console included.
This page is general information, not legal advice.