DS-0
OUTPOST
Entry bare metal. Your own kernel, your own disk, no neighbours.
- CPU
- 4c / 8t
- Memory
- 32 GB
- Storage
- 1 TB
- Transfer
- 30 TB
$47.00/mo
Chișinău
Chișinău · KIV-1 · Botanica
Dedicated in Moldova
Single-tenant bare metal from a 4-core Xeon to dual EPYC 9654 with 768 GB of ECC. IPMI, custom ISO boot and LUKS2 at provision, in eight jurisdictions.
Answer
Dedicated servers in Moldova start at $47.00 per month at KIV-1 · Botanica in Chișinău. The country sits outside the EU legal perimeter, so European Investigation Orders and DSA obligations do not reach it, yet latency to Frankfurt is only 42 ms. No identity is required, payment is on-chain, and delivery takes 15 to 90 minutes.
§01 $47 — 6 configurations
Dedicated servers plans in Chișinău
Priced at the Moldova index of 1.02. Cheaper in Bulgaria if jurisdiction is not the deciding factor.
DS-1
GARRISON
Single-tenant workhorse with IPMI and custom ISO boot.
- CPU
- 8c / 16t
- Memory
- 64 GB
- Storage
- 2 TB
- Transfer
- 50 TB
$91.00/mo
Chișinău
DS-2
RAMPART
Highest single-thread clock on the network. Chain nodes love it.
- CPU
- 16c / 32t
- Memory
- 128 GB
- Storage
- 4 TB
- Transfer
- 60 TB
$152.00/mo
Chișinău
DS-3
KEEP
Virtualisation host, database primary, private cloud in a box.
- CPU
- 32c / 64t
- Memory
- 192 GB
- Storage
- 7.5 TB
- Transfer
- 100 TB
$295.00/mo
Chișinău
DS-4
STRONGHOLD
Serious compute. Archive nodes, analytics, large Kubernetes.
- CPU
- 64c / 128t
- Memory
- 384 GB
- Storage
- 15 TB
- Transfer
- 150 TB
$560.00/mo
Chișinău
DS-5
CITADEL-X
The biggest box we rack. Unmetered 25 Gbps, dual socket, LUKS.
- CPU
- 192c / 384t
- Memory
- 768 GB
- Storage
- 60 TB
- Transfer
- Unmetered
$1,214.00/mo
Chișinău
Why Moldova
Moldova sits outside the EU legal perimeter — European Investigation Orders and DSA obligations do not reach it — while remaining 42 ms from Frankfurt. There is no hosting-level retention mandate and no bilateral copyright-enforcement treaty with the United States.
- Non-EU state — EU instruments including European Investigation Orders do not apply 2022
- No general data-retention mandate on hosting providers 2007
- US copyright law has no extraterritorial force; no bilateral IP-enforcement treaty 2010
The trade-off
Real legal distance from both Brussels and Washington at a low price. In exchange: thinner transit, a smaller local operations market, and a country actively negotiating EU accession — the legal picture here has a five-year horizon, not a twenty-year one.
- Frankfurt
- 42 ms
- New York
- 124 ms
- Uplink
- 10 Gbps
- EU member state
- No
§02 Optional
Add-ons
Additional IPv4
$2.50/mo per IP
Clean address from a separate /24. Up to 16 per server, no justification form.
IPv6 /64
Included
Every server ships with a routed /64. A /48 is free on request.
Encrypted snapshots
$0.04/GB/mo
Daily snapshots encrypted with your key, stored in a second jurisdiction. We cannot read them.
DDoS Shield Pro
$12.00/mo
L7 filtering on top of the always-on L3/L4 scrubbing. Custom rules, 11 Tbps capacity.
Full-disk encryption at provision
Included
LUKS2 with a passphrase you supply over the console at first boot. We never hold the key.
Custom ISO boot
Included
Upload any ISO and boot it over virtual media. Bring your own hardened image.
Out-of-band IPMI / KVM
Included
Serial-over-LAN and HTML5 KVM to the bare metal, always available.
Dedicated servers elsewhere
§03 FAQ
Frequently asked questions
01 How much is a dedicated in Moldova?
Pricing starts at $47.00 per month at KIV-1 · Botanica and goes up to $1,214.00 for the largest configuration. DDoS scrubbing, a routed IPv6 /64, and full root access are included.
02 Why choose Moldova for this?
Moldova is outside the EU legal perimeter, so European Investigation Orders and DSA obligations don't apply, and Frankfurt is 42 ms away. There is no hosting-level retention mandate and no bilateral copyright-enforcement treaty with the US. This suits cost-sensitive privacy workloads, mirrors, backup targets, tor relays and bridges, and proxy endpoints.
03 What is the catch with Moldova?
You get real legal distance from both Brussels and Washington at a low price. The trade-off: thinner transit, a smaller local operations market, and a country actively negotiating EU accession — so the legal picture has a five-year horizon, not twenty.
04 Do you require identity verification in Moldova?
No. Token-only registration is standard across all 16 sites, so no personal details are ever collected, and payments are crypto-only.
55-second deploy
Dedicated servers in Moldova, from $47
No account to create, no email to confirm, no card to enter.