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Sofia 42°42′N 23°19′E

# Bulgaria VPS & offshore servers. Low-cost EU hosting near the Black Sea.

Servers in Sofia: EU hosting under the DSA and GDPR, a data retention law annulled by the Constitutional Court in 2015, and short routes to Istanbul.

**Bulgaria** European Union Budget EU

- **EU rules (DSA)**: Apply
- **US DMCA notices**: Not actioned
- **Removal requires**: Bulgarian court order
- **Best for**: Balkans, Turkey, Eastern Europe
- **Available here**: 7 VPS · 2 Dedicated · 6 RDP

London **~31 ms** New York **~112 ms** Singapore **~134 ms**

Servers from **$2.39**/mo

## 15 servers available in Bulgaria.

Same prices as in every other jurisdiction. Deploy links below are preset to Sofia.

### Offshore VPS · KVM VPS on NVMe, live in about a minute

| Plan | CPU | RAM | Storage | Network | Price |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **Dinghy** (Starter) | 1 vCPU | 1 GB | 25 GB NVMe | 1 Gbps · unmetered | **$2.39**/mo |
| **Sloop** (Personal) | 1 vCPU | 2 GB | 40 GB NVMe | 1 Gbps · unmetered | **$3.49**/mo |
| **Cutter** (Web & VPN), popular | 2 vCPU | 4 GB | 70 GB NVMe | 1 Gbps · unmetered | **$5.49**/mo |
| **Schooner** (Production) | 4 vCPU | 8 GB | 160 GB NVMe | 1 Gbps · unmetered | **$12.49**/mo |
| **Brigantine** (Heavy apps) | 6 vCPU | 16 GB | 240 GB NVMe | 1 Gbps · unmetered | **$19.99**/mo |
| **Frigate** (Databases) | 12 vCPU | 32 GB | 500 GB NVMe | 1 Gbps · unmetered | **$47.99**/mo |
| **Flagship** (Clusters), best value | 16 vCPU | 64 GB | 640 GB NVMe | 1 Gbps · unmetered | **$55.49**/mo |

### Dedicated Servers · Bare metal, from Xeon to 16-core Ryzen and EPYC

| Server | Cores | Memory | Storage | Network | Price |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **Xeon E3-1230 v6** (Kaby Lake · 3.9 GHz boost) | 4c / 8t | 16 GB DDR4 | 500 GB SSD | 1 Gbps · unmetered | **$47.49**/mo |
| **Dual Xeon E5-2680 v4** (Two sockets · most cores per dollar) | 28c / 56t | 128 GB ECC | 2 × 1 TB NVMe | 1 Gbps · unmetered | **$137.99**/mo |

### Windows RDP · Private Windows desktops with full admin rights

| Plan | CPU | RAM | Storage | Network | Price |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **Shared RDP** (Private seat, no admin) | Shared | 2 GB | 30 GB NVMe | 1 Gbps · shared | **$4.09**/mo |
| **RDP Solo** (One desktop, full admin) | 1 vCPU | 2 GB | 50 GB NVMe | 1 Gbps · unmetered | **$6.89**/mo |
| **RDP Duo** (Trading bots, automation), popular | 2 vCPU | 4 GB | 80 GB NVMe | 1 Gbps · unmetered | **$8.09**/mo |
| **RDP Quad** (Dev tools, heavier apps) | 4 vCPU | 8 GB | 120 GB NVMe | 1 Gbps · unmetered | **$12.99**/mo |
| **RDP Hexa** (Many apps at once) | 6 vCPU | 16 GB | 200 GB NVMe | 1 Gbps · unmetered | **$24.99**/mo |
| **RDP Octa** (Power users, VMs) | 8 vCPU | 32 GB | 250 GB NVMe | 1 Gbps · unmetered | **$55.49**/mo |

## Hosting in Bulgaria, explained.

What the law allows, what it requires, and how we apply it here.

> In short
> 
> - Bulgaria is an EU member; the Digital Services Act and the GDPR apply, and the Communications Regulation Commission is the Digital Services Coordinator.
> - The Constitutional Court annulled the data retention law in 2015, and in 2022 the EU Court of Justice ruled on the retention rules that followed.
> - US DMCA notices are not actioned; notices that meet the DSA and orders from Bulgarian courts or authorities can require action.
> - VPS, Windows RDP including the shared seat, and two Intel dedicated servers are available in Sofia; GPU servers are not.

## Legal profile

- **EU status**: EU member since 2007
- **Digital Services Act**: Applies; the Communications Regulation Commission is the Digital Services Coordinator
- **Data protection**: GDPR, with the Personal Data Protection Act
- **Traffic data retention**: Telecom retention law annulled in 2015; later rules tested at the EU Court of Justice
- **Press freedom**: 71st of 180 (RSF, 2026)

Bulgaria joined the EU in 2007, and the [Digital Services Act](https://offshoreserv.com/blog/digital-services-act-hosting) applies in full. The Communications Regulation Commission (CRC) is the national Digital Services Coordinator ([European Commission](https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/dsa-dscs)). Hosting liability now follows the DSA's own rules in Articles 4 to 6, which replaced the e-Commerce Directive provisions that Bulgarian law used to implement.

Article 40 of the [Constitution](https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/Bulgaria_2015) states that the press is free and not subject to censorship, and that stopping or confiscating printed matter or another information medium requires an act of the judicial authorities. [RSF](https://rsf.org/en/country/bulgaria) ranks Bulgaria 71st in 2026, the lowest of our EU locations, pointing to abusive lawsuits against journalists, opaque state funding of media and threats to reporters.

### Copyright complaints and notice-and-action

Copyright is protected by the Copyright and Neighboring Rights Act and enforced through the courts. For hosts, the DSA's notice-and-action mechanism now sets the procedure ([DSA, Articles 16 and 17](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2022/2065/oj)). A valid notice explains why the content is illegal, gives its exact location, identifies the sender and confirms good faith. It gives the host actual knowledge, but it is not an automatic removal order: the host must decide diligently and objectively, and give the customer a statement of reasons if content is restricted. The DSA imposes no general monitoring duty.

Competent Bulgarian judicial and administrative authorities can also issue orders under Article 9 of the DSA. Such an order must state its legal basis and reasons, identify the content precisely and explain the remedies available, and its territorial scope must be limited to what is strictly necessary. The EU [Terrorist Content Online Regulation](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2021/784/oj) lets competent authorities order terrorist content removed within one hour.

## Data protection and retention

The GDPR applies directly, supplemented by the Personal Data Protection Act. The supervisory authority is the Commission for Personal Data Protection ([CPDP](https://www.cpdp.bg/en/)). Personal data processed in Sofia stays inside the EU.

Data retention has been contested in Bulgaria for years. In 2015 the Constitutional Court annulled the data retention provisions of the Electronic Communications Act. The act contained a retention framework again by 2016, when the new Counter-Terrorism Act amended it ([EU Agency for Fundamental Rights](https://fra.europa.eu/en/publication/2017/data-retention-across-eu)). In November 2022, answering questions referred by a Bulgarian court, the EU Court of Justice confirmed that EU law precludes general and indiscriminate retention of traffic and location data as a preventive measure against serious crime ([C-350/21](https://curia.europa.eu/juris/liste.jsf?num=C-350/21)).

These retention rules concern providers of public electronic communications networks and services, not hosting as such. What we keep is set out in our [privacy policy](https://offshoreserv.com/privacy-policy): your email address, your balance and payment records, your sign-in sessions (browser and country, never the IP address) and your service records. We do not log or inspect the traffic on your server.

Bulgaria is not in the Five, Nine or 14 Eyes intelligence-sharing groups. Those groups share intercepted communications; data on a server in Sofia is still obtained through Bulgarian and EU procedures, as our guide to [what the 14 Eyes mean for hosting](https://offshoreserv.com/blog/14-eyes-countries-hosting) explains.

## How we handle complaints here

1. Every complaint about a server in Sofia is logged and checked against Bulgarian and EU law.
2. We do not act on a notice because it cites the US [DMCA](https://offshoreserv.com/dmca-ignored-hosting), which has no legal force in Bulgaria. What matters is whether the notice meets the DSA's requirements and concerns content that is illegal under EU or Bulgarian law. A notice that does is assessed on those terms, whoever sends it.
3. A valid order of a Bulgarian court, an order from a competent authority under Article 9 of the DSA, or a notice that meets Article 16 of the DSA can require action. You are informed first and can respond, unless a court forbids it, and the DSA requires us to give you a statement of reasons if we restrict content.
4. Requests and outcomes are published in our quarterly [transparency report](https://offshoreserv.com/transparency-report), without customer data.

> No location changes our zero-tolerance rules. Child sexual abuse material (reported to the competent authorities), malware and botnet infrastructure, spam and phishing, attacks from our network and fraud against real people are acted on immediately. See our [acceptable use policy](https://offshoreserv.com/acceptable-use-policy) and [DMCA policy](https://offshoreserv.com/dmca-policy).

## Who it suits

- **A low-cost EU presence.** VPS plans start at $2.39, the shared RDP seat costs $4.09, and two Intel dedicated servers are offered: the Xeon E3-1230 v6 at $47.49 and the dual Xeon E5-2680 v4 with 28 cores and 128 GB of ECC memory at $137.99.
- **Audiences in the Balkans, Greece, Turkey and the Black Sea region.** Sofia is about 300 km from Bucharest and 500 km from Istanbul in a straight line.
- **Windows desktops and light workloads** for teams in South-East Europe.
- **Sites that need GDPR data residency** but not premium hardware.

> Sofia has a narrower catalog: no GPU, AMD or storage servers. EU rules apply in full, and the press-freedom climate is the weakest of our European locations, so for sensitive journalism choose Iceland or Switzerland.

### Available in Sofia

| Product | Availability | From |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [Offshore VPS](https://offshoreserv.com/offshore-vps) | All seven plans | $2.39/month |
| [Windows RDP](https://offshoreserv.com/offshore-rdp) | All plans, including the shared seat | $4.09/month |
| [Dedicated servers](https://offshoreserv.com/offshore-dedicated-servers) | Xeon E3-1230 v6, dual Xeon E5-2680 v4 | $47.49/month |
| GPU servers | Not offered in Sofia | — |

## Network and latency

In a straight line, Sofia is about 300 km from Bucharest, 500 km from Istanbul, 820 km from Vienna and 1,390 km from Frankfurt. [Balkan-IX (B-IX)](https://www.b-ix.net/), a neutral exchange headquartered in Sofia, serves operators across the Balkans, and Romania's InterLAN also has a point of presence in the city.

Bulgaria's Black Sea coast carries two subsea systems in service, according to [TeleGeography](https://www.submarinecablemap.com/country/bulgaria): KAFOS, which links Varna with Romania and Istanbul, and the Caucasus Cable System from Balchik to Poti in Georgia. A third, Kardesa, is planned for 2027. Routes to Western Europe are terrestrial, so Amsterdam or Zürich will usually be faster for users there. Our [network page](https://offshoreserv.com/network) lists latency estimates and shows how to measure the real latency yourself.

## How far is Sofia?

Estimated round-trip times from 20 major cities, based on distance and typical fiber routes. Real figures depend on your provider.

- Istanbul **~9 ms**
- Warsaw **~18 ms**
- Frankfurt **~22 ms**
- Paris **~27 ms**
- Moscow **~28 ms**
- Stockholm **~29 ms**
- London **~31 ms**
- Madrid **~35 ms**
- Dubai **~53 ms**
- Lagos **~67 ms**
- Mumbai **~79 ms**
- New York **~112 ms**
- Johannesburg **~113 ms**
- Hong Kong **~124 ms**
- Miami **~134 ms**
- Singapore **~134 ms**
- Tokyo **~135 ms**
- São Paulo **~151 ms**
- Los Angeles **~156 ms**
- Sydney **~226 ms**

## Bulgaria, answered.

**Another question?** The full FAQ answers what people ask before an order: payments, privacy, complaints and support.

### Do you act on DMCA notices for servers in Bulgaria?

Not because they cite the DMCA, which has no legal force in Bulgaria. What matters is whether a notice meets the Digital Services Act and concerns content that is illegal under EU or Bulgarian law; such a notice is assessed on those terms, whoever sends it.

### Which data-protection law applies to a server in Sofia?

The GDPR, supplemented by Bulgaria's Personal Data Protection Act and supervised by the Commission for Personal Data Protection. Data processed in Sofia stays inside the EU.

### Is there mandatory data retention in Bulgaria?

Bulgaria's retention rules apply to telecom providers and have been repeatedly challenged: the Constitutional Court annulled them in 2015, and in 2022 the EU Court of Justice held that general and indiscriminate retention is incompatible with EU law. We do not log or inspect the traffic on your server.

### Is Bulgaria part of the 14 Eyes?

No. Bulgaria is in none of the Five, Nine or 14 Eyes groups. As an EU member it applies EU procedures such as the Digital Services Act, its data retention law was annulled in 2015, and data on a server in Sofia is obtained through Bulgarian courts and competent authorities.

### What can force a takedown in Bulgaria?

A Bulgarian court order, an order from a competent authority under Article 9 of the DSA, or a notice that meets Article 16 of the DSA. Terrorist content can be ordered offline within one hour under EU law.

### Which products are available in Bulgaria?

All VPS plans, all Windows RDP plans including the shared seat, and two Intel dedicated servers: the Xeon E3-1230 v6 and the dual Xeon E5-2680 v4. GPU, AMD and storage servers are not offered in Sofia.

### Is Sofia a good choice for users in Turkey and the Balkans?

Yes. Sofia is about 500 km from Istanbul in a straight line, and together with Bucharest it is our closest location to Turkey and the Balkans.

### Can I pay for a server in Bulgaria with Bitcoin or Monero?

Yes. Every server in Bulgaria is paid from your balance, which you top up in Bitcoin, Ethereum, Monero, USDT or Solana from any wallet. No identity checks: an email address and a password are all an account needs, and prices are the same as in our other six jurisdictions.

## Compare with the other six.

- [Iceland Reykjavík Free-speech haven — EEA · outside the EU · no DSA — London **~29 ms** New York **~63 ms** Singapore **~169 ms**](https://offshoreserv.com/locations/iceland)
- [Switzerland Zürich Privacy law — Outside the EU & EEA · no DSA — London **~13 ms** New York **~94 ms** Singapore **~151 ms**](https://offshoreserv.com/locations/switzerland)
- [Moldova Chișinău Best value — Outside the EU · no DSA — London **~33 ms** New York **~113 ms** Singapore **~129 ms**](https://offshoreserv.com/locations/moldova)
- [Romania Bucharest Budget EU — EU member · DSA applies — London **~32 ms** New York **~113 ms** Singapore **~131 ms**](https://offshoreserv.com/locations/romania)
- [Netherlands Amsterdam Network hub — EU member · DSA applies — London **~7 ms** New York **~87 ms** Singapore **~154 ms**](https://offshoreserv.com/locations/netherlands)
- [Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Asia gateway — Asia-Pacific · no DSA — London **~155 ms** New York **~221 ms** Singapore **~6 ms**](https://offshoreserv.com/locations/malaysia)

## Your server in Bulgaria, live in minutes.

1. Pick a server in Sofia
2. Pay in crypto, no ID asked
3. Online in minutes

From $2.39/mo · same price in every jurisdiction

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