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title: "Iceland VPS & Offshore Hosting from $2.39 · No KYC"
description: "VPS, dedicated, RDP and GPU servers in Reykjavík. EEA, not EU: no DSA, and US DMCA notices are not actioned. No KYC, paid in crypto."
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Reykjavík 64°08′N 21°56′W

# Iceland VPS & offshore servers. Press freedom outside the EU.

Servers in Reykjavík: EEA but not EU, no DSA yet, GDPR through Act 90/2018, a statutory copyright notice procedure, and three subsea routes to Europe.

**Iceland** EEA · outside the EU Free-speech haven

- **EU rules (DSA)**: Do not apply
- **US DMCA notices**: Not actioned
- **Removal requires**: Icelandic court order
- **Best for**: Journalism, activism, publishing
- **Available here**: 7 VPS · 3 Dedicated · 5 RDP · 4 GPU

London **~29 ms** New York **~63 ms** Singapore **~169 ms**

Servers from **$2.39**/mo

## 19 servers available in Iceland.

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

### 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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **Ryzen 7 7700** (Zen 4 · 5.3 GHz boost), popular | 8c / 16t | 64 GB DDR5 | 2 × 1 TB NVMe | 1 Gbps · unmetered | **$97.49**/mo |
| **Ryzen 9 7950X** (Zen 4 · 5.7 GHz boost) | 16c / 32t | 128 GB DDR5 | 2 × 1.92 TB NVMe | 1 Gbps · unmetered | **$175.99**/mo |
| **AMD EPYC 7402P** (Server-grade · 128 PCIe lanes) | 24c / 48t | 128 GB ECC | 2 × 1.92 TB NVMe | 1 Gbps · unmetered | **$211.99**/mo |

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

| Plan | CPU | RAM | Storage | Network | Price |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **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 |

### GPU Servers · RTX 4090 to H100 for AI, rendering and inference

| GPU | VRAM | CPU | RAM | Storage | Price |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **RTX 4090** (Best price per token), popular | 24 GB | 8 vCPU | 64 GB | 1 TB NVMe | **$84.99**/mo |
| **RTX 5090** (Fast inference, image and video) | 32 GB | 12 vCPU | 96 GB | 2 TB NVMe | **$134.99**/mo |
| **A100 80 GB** (Training and fine-tuning) | 80 GB | 16 vCPU | 128 GB | 3.84 TB NVMe | **$355.99**/mo |
| **H100 80 GB** (Frontier training, SXM5) | 80 GB | 24 vCPU | 192 GB | 2 TB NVMe | **$581.99**/mo |

## Hosting in Iceland, explained.

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

> In short
> 
> - Iceland is in the EEA but not the EU, and the Digital Services Act has not been incorporated into the EEA Agreement.
> - The GDPR applies through Act No. 90/2018; electronic communications undertakings must keep minimal traffic records for six months.
> - US DMCA notices have no legal force here; Icelandic courts and the copyright notice procedure of Act No. 30/2002 do.
> - VPS, Windows RDP, three AMD dedicated servers and selected GPU servers are available in Reykjavík.
> - Subsea cables reach Scotland, Ireland, Denmark and Canada; latency to continental Europe is higher than from Amsterdam.

## Legal profile

- **EU status**: EEA member since 1994, not in the EU
- **Digital Services Act**: Not incorporated into the EEA Agreement
- **Data protection**: GDPR through Act No. 90/2018
- **Traffic data retention**: Six months, for electronic communications undertakings
- **Press freedom**: 12th of 180 (RSF, 2026)

Iceland has been part of the European Economic Area since 1994, so most EU single-market law reaches it through the EEA Agreement. It is not an EU member, and an EU act applies only after the EEA Joint Committee incorporates it. The [Digital Services Act](https://offshoreserv.com/blog/digital-services-act-hosting) has not passed that step: the [EFTA factsheet on Regulation 2022/2065](https://www.efta.int/eea-lex/32022r2065) lists it as under scrutiny by Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, with no Joint Committee decision. Until that changes, the DSA's notice-and-action rules are not Icelandic law.

Article 73 of the [Constitution](https://www.government.is/library/01-Ministries/Prime-Ministrers-Office/constitution_of_iceland.pdf) protects freedom of expression and prohibits censorship. In June 2010 the Althingi unanimously adopted the [Icelandic Modern Media Initiative (IMMI)](https://en.immi.is/immi-resolution/), a resolution asking the government to build strong protections for sources, whistleblowers and publishers. It is a mandate, not a statute. Source protection entered the Media Act in 2011 and a whistleblower act followed in 2020, but [Freedom House](https://freedomhouse.org/country/iceland/freedom-net/2024) describes much of the program as stalled. [RSF](https://rsf.org/en/country/iceland) ranks Iceland 12th of 180 in 2026, while recording a smear campaign and a police investigation aimed at journalists who covered suspected corruption at a major fishing company.

### Copyright complaints under Icelandic law

Iceland transposed the EU e-Commerce Directive through [Act No. 30/2002](https://www.stjornarradid.is/media/atvinnuvegaraduneyti-media/media/Acrobat/Act-No-30-2002-on-Electronic-Commerce-and-other-Electronic-Services.pdf), which contains a statutory copyright notice procedure. Under Article 14, a host is not liable for customer content if it acts promptly on a court ruling or an injunction from a district commissioner, on knowledge of child sexual abuse material, or on a copyright notification that meets Article 15. That notification must identify the sender and the rights holder, locate the material, name the right relied on, confirm that its content is correct and be signed.

The customer must receive a copy and may send a counter-notification. Access is then restored unless the complainant starts court proceedings within two weeks (Articles 16 and 17). A court can order whoever obtained an unjustified removal, or an unjustified restoration, to pay damages (Article 18).

Rights holders also go to court. In October 2014 the Reykjavík District Court ordered the access providers Vodafone and Hringdu to block The Pirate Bay and the Icelandic tracker Deildu at the request of the music rights society STEF ([TorrentFreak](https://torrentfreak.com/freedom-friendly-iceland-blocks-the-pirate-bay-141016/)). Freedom House reports that the blocks remain in place and that an agreement lets the providers add new domains of both sites without further court orders.

## Data protection and retention

The GDPR applies in Iceland through the EEA Agreement and is implemented by [Act No. 90/2018](https://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/legislation/details/18498) on Data Protection and the Processing of Personal Data, in force since 15 July 2018. The supervisory authority is [Persónuvernd](https://www.personuvernd.is/). If you handle personal data of people in the EU, a server in Iceland is inside the EEA, so no transfer mechanism is needed.

Iceland does keep a retention rule for carriers. Article 89 of the [Electronic Communications Act No. 70/2022](https://www.fjarskiptastofa.is/library?itemid=175f315e-40a7-4b2e-83b0-4c377b96b098) requires electronic communications undertakings to keep minimal records for six months: which customer used a given telephone number, IP address or username, and the connections made, with dates and counterparties. Only the police and prosecutors may receive them. Under Article 92, the police can also order an undertaking to preserve existing data for up to 90 days during an investigation.

The duty is placed on undertakings that operate electronic communications networks or services, such as internet access providers and carriers. Icelandic law sets no separate retention period for hosting providers. 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.

Iceland is not in the Five, Nine or 14 Eyes intelligence-sharing groups. Those groups share intercepted communications; data on a server here is still obtained through Icelandic courts and mutual legal assistance, 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 Reykjavík is logged and checked against Icelandic law.
2. A US [DMCA](https://offshoreserv.com/dmca-ignored-hosting) notice is answered, not enforced. It has no legal force in Iceland and is not an Article 15 notification, so nothing happens to your server.
3. A ruling of an Icelandic court or a district commissioner's injunction can require action. A copyright notification that meets Article 15 of Act No. 30/2002 is not an order, but a host that ignores a valid one loses its liability exemption for that material, so we assess it on the merits. In each case we inform you first and send you a copy, and you can respond or counter-notify, unless a court forbids disclosure.
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

Iceland suits projects where the legal climate matters more than the last few milliseconds:

- **Journalism, publishing and archives.** Constitutional protection against censorship, a high press-freedom ranking and a copyright procedure with a statutory right to counter-notify.
- **Non-EU hosting with European data protection.** The GDPR applies; the DSA does not yet.
- **GPU and compute workloads.** Iceland's electricity comes almost entirely from hydropower and geothermal sources, according to the [Government of Iceland](https://www.government.is/topics/business-and-industry/energy/). GPU servers are offered here, depending on the model.
- **Services for the UK, Ireland and the Nordic countries**, which the subsea routes reach first.

> Two limits are worth knowing. Latency to continental Europe is higher than from Amsterdam or Zürich, because every packet crosses the North Atlantic first. And the DSA is under review for incorporation into the EEA Agreement; once it applies, EU notice-and-action rules will cover Iceland too, and we will update this page.

### Available in Reykjavík

| 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 except the shared seat | $6.89/month |
| [AMD dedicated servers](https://offshoreserv.com/offshore-dedicated-servers/amd) | Ryzen 7 7700, Ryzen 9 7950X, EPYC 7402P | $97.49/month |
| [GPU servers](https://offshoreserv.com/offshore-gpu-servers) | Selected models | Depends on the model |

## Network and latency

Iceland sits in the North Atlantic, about 1,900 km from London and 2,000 km from Amsterdam in a straight line. Every international connection leaves the island on subsea fiber. [TeleGeography](https://www.submarinecablemap.com/country/iceland) lists four systems:

- **FARICE-1**: Seyðisfjörður to the Faroe Islands and Dunnet Bay, Scotland, in service since 2004.
- **DANICE**: Landeyjar to Blaabjerg, Denmark, since 2009.
- **IRIS**: Þorlákshöfn to Galway, Ireland, since March 2023.
- **Greenland Connect**: Landeyjar to Nuuk and Qaqortoq in Greenland and on to Milton, Newfoundland, since 2009.

FARICE-1, DANICE and IRIS are owned by the Icelandic state through [Korda](https://www.korda.is/is/um-korda), formerly Farice. Three independent routes to Europe give Iceland real cable diversity, but traffic to continental hubs such as Amsterdam or Frankfurt passes through Scotland, Ireland or Denmark first, which adds distance. In a straight line Reykjavík is closer to New York than Amsterdam is, yet Greenland Connect is the only cable heading west, so many routes to North America still run through Europe. Test before you assume a gain.

Our [network page](https://offshoreserv.com/network) lists latency estimates for each location and shows how to measure the real latency yourself. For a side-by-side view of the non-EU options, read [Iceland vs Switzerland vs Moldova](https://offshoreserv.com/blog/iceland-vs-switzerland-vs-moldova).

## How far is Reykjavík?

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

- London **~29 ms**
- Stockholm **~33 ms**
- Paris **~34 ms**
- Frankfurt **~36 ms**
- Warsaw **~42 ms**
- Madrid **~44 ms**
- Moscow **~50 ms**
- Istanbul **~62 ms**
- New York **~63 ms**
- Miami **~88 ms**
- Lagos **~99 ms**
- Dubai **~102 ms**
- Los Angeles **~103 ms**
- Mumbai **~123 ms**
- Tokyo **~130 ms**
- Hong Kong **~142 ms**
- São Paulo **~147 ms**
- Johannesburg **~161 ms**
- Singapore **~169 ms**
- Sydney **~243 ms**

## Iceland, 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 Iceland?

No. A US DMCA notice has no legal force in Iceland, so we answer it and nothing happens to your server. Copyright complaints are assessed under Icelandic law, including the notice procedure in Act No. 30/2002.

### Does the EU Digital Services Act apply in Iceland?

Not yet. Iceland is in the EEA, not the EU, and the DSA has not been incorporated into the EEA Agreement. If that changes, we will update this page and our process.

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

The GDPR, through the EEA Agreement and Act No. 90/2018, supervised by Persónuvernd. Personal data processed in Reykjavík stays inside the EEA.

### Is there mandatory data retention in Iceland?

Electronic communications undertakings, such as internet access providers, must keep minimal traffic records for six months under Article 89 of Act No. 70/2022. We do not log or inspect the traffic on your server.

### Is Iceland part of the 14 Eyes?

No. Iceland is in none of the Five, Nine or 14 Eyes groups, which share intercepted communications between intelligence agencies. Data on a server in Reykjavík is still obtained through Icelandic courts, and a foreign authority must go through mutual legal assistance. Traffic to continental Europe crosses UK, Irish or Danish networks.

### What can force a takedown in Iceland?

A ruling of an Icelandic court or an injunction from a district commissioner. A copyright notification that meets Article 15 of Act No. 30/2002 is not an order, but it is assessed on its merits, and you can file a counter-notification.

### Which products are available in Iceland?

All VPS plans, Windows RDP plans except the shared seat, three AMD dedicated servers (Ryzen 7 7700, Ryzen 9 7950X and EPYC 7402P) and selected GPU servers, depending on the model.

### Is Iceland a good choice for low latency to continental Europe?

Not if latency is your priority. Traffic crosses subsea cables to Scotland, Ireland or Denmark first, so Amsterdam or Zürich will usually be faster for users in continental Europe.

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

Yes. Every server in Iceland 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.

- [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)
- [Bulgaria Sofia Budget EU — EU member · DSA applies — London **~31 ms** New York **~112 ms** Singapore **~134 ms**](https://offshoreserv.com/locations/bulgaria)
- [Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Asia gateway — Asia-Pacific · no DSA — London **~155 ms** New York **~221 ms** Singapore **~6 ms**](https://offshoreserv.com/locations/malaysia)

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