Reykjavík · KEFServers in Iceland, where press freedom is written into statute.
Reykjavík · KEFAnything that expects to be complained about. Press, leaks, archives, mirrors. Constitutional press-freedom statute; 100 % renewable power.
The site
What is physically there.
Every figure here is the one the network page, the configurator and the status page read. Nothing on this page is measured somewhere else or rounded up for it.
- City
- Reykjavík, Iceland Airport code KEF, which is also the region id in the API.
- Data centre
- Purpose-built, N+1 power and cooling, seismic-rated
- Power
- 100 % geothermal and hydroelectric — not offset, generated
- Uplink
- 2 × 100 Gbit Multiple tier-1 and regional carriers
- Internet exchanges
- RIX Open peering, no ratio requirement.
- Region class
- Flagship 1.2 Tbit/s DDoS mitigation at the edge, included.
The law here
What this jurisdiction does, and what it does not.
Iceland writes press freedom into statute. The IMMI resolution of 2010 directed the state to build the strongest source-protection and intermediary-liability regime it could, and the resulting law is why publishers who cannot be hosted elsewhere are hosted here.
Servers here are operated by Hostonym Iceland ehf., registered with Fyrirtækjaskrá. A request for data or for a removal has to be valid under local law and reach that company through a local court.
What you can run here
Every product, at the price it carries in every other region.
KVM · NVMe · Hourly
Cloud VPS
A virtual machine with full root, live in about a minute. The right answer most of the time.
from$2.79/mo ConfigureSingle-tenant bare metal
Dedicated Servers
You want the whole machine — no hypervisor, no neighbours, no noisy tenant.
from$59/mo ConfigureRemote desktop
Windows RDP
You need Windows rather than Linux, and would rather not source the licence yourself.
from$8.99/mo ConfigureAccelerated nodes
GPU Compute
You are training, running inference or rendering, and want to stop when done.
from$0.27/hr ConfigureYour own region
Private Cloud
You need a whole cluster to yourself, on a private fabric, with an API.
from$399/mo ConfigureManaged stack
Web Hosting
You just want a site online and would rather not administer a server.
from$2.49/mo ConfigureCapacity, not compute
Object & Block Storage
You are archiving, backing up or serving media at scale.
from$4.79/TB ConfigureRack space
Colocation
Space, power and unmetered transit for hardware you already own, or would rather own.
from$79/mo ConfigureBuilt to order
Custom build
Build the machine part by part, with every price on the page and no quote to wait for.
from$89/mo ConfigureMeasure it yourself
No latency figure from us. Run your own.
A latency number on a host’s own page is a measurement somebody else made from somewhere else. The looking glass gives you the targets in this region so you can measure from where you actually are; the status page shows every minute this region was unreachable.
Before you choose a region.
Is the price different in this region?
No. Every region carries the same price list, from the smallest VPS to a full rack. Choose on the law and the latency you need, never on the price.
Can I move a server to another jurisdiction later?
Yes. A virtual instance moves between any two of the eight regions with one API call or one request; a dedicated server is migrated by an engineer at no charge. The address changes, nothing else does.
Whose law applies to a server here?
The law of the country it sits in, through Hostonym Iceland ehf., the company registered here that operates it. A foreign notice is correspondence; content is removed only when a court with jurisdiction over that company orders it.
Do you ask for identity documents in this region?
No, in no region and at no stage. An email address that receives mail is the only account requirement, and payment is in cryptocurrency only.