HV-1
SCOUT
A relay, a bridge, a bastion host. The smallest useful thing.
- CPU
- 1 vCPU
- Memory
- 2 GB
- Storage
- 25 GB
- Transfer
- 2 TB
$4.50/mo
Paris · PAR-1 · Aubervilliers
Servers in France
Western Europe, lowest latency
Answer
Paris is our lowest-latency Western European site, 9 ms from Amsterdam and 8 ms from London, on France-IX and DE-CIX Paris. It is not a privacy jurisdiction: France sits in the Nine Eyes tier, mandates connection-data retention that reaches hosts, and is fully within EU judicial cooperation. Choose it for speed, not for legal distance.
§01 Legal dossier
What France law actually says
Each claim below names the instrument behind it and the year it took effect, so you can verify it rather than trust us.
- 01
Connection-data retention is mandatory and applies to hosting providers
Instrument · 2021
Code des postes et des communications électroniques, art. L.34-1; Decree 2021-1362 - 02
General retention upheld for national-security purposes
Instrument · 2021
Conseil d’État, French Data Network and others, decision no. 393099 - 03
Hosting providers must remove manifestly unlawful content on notification
Instrument · 2004
Loi pour la confiance dans l’économie numérique (LCEN) 2004-575, art. 6 - 04
Intelligence services may require algorithmic traffic analysis at operators
Instrument · 2015
Loi relative au renseignement 2015-912
The trade-off
This is a latency choice, not a legal one. France participates in the Nine Eyes tier, imposes connection-data retention that reaches hosting providers, and is fully inside EU judicial cooperation — a European Investigation Order arrives here without friction. Pick Paris because your users are in Western Europe and 9 ms to Amsterdam matters. If jurisdiction is what you are buying, buy Iceland or Switzerland instead.
Measured latency
Round-trip in milliseconds, measured from Paris over the last 30 days.
Frankfurt 11 ms
Amsterdam 9 ms
London 8 ms
New York 76 ms
Singapore 162 ms
Network
France-IX and DE-CIX Paris peering; transit via Cogent, Arelion and Orange.
Facility
- Facility
- PAR-1 · Aubervilliers
- Uplink
- 25 Gbps per node
- EU member state
- Yes
- Intelligence alliance
- Nine Eyes participant
- Location live since
- 2023
- Test address
- 185.132.44.80
- Looking glass
- lg-par.incognitovps.com
- Coordinates
- 48.8566, 2.3522
Best for
- Latency-critical French and Benelux audiences
- Low-latency game servers
- CDN origins
- Workloads with no jurisdictional requirement
§02 $4.5 — 6 configurations
Linux VPS in France
HV-2
RELAY
VPN endpoint, proxy, small site. The default first server.
- CPU
- 2 vCPU
- Memory
- 4 GB
- Storage
- 60 GB
- Transfer
- 4 TB
$8.00/mo
HV-4
VECTOR
Docker stacks, CI runners, a pruned chain node.
- CPU
- 4 vCPU
- Memory
- 8 GB
- Storage
- 140 GB
- Transfer
- 8 TB
$15.50/mo
§03 $51.5 — 6 configurations
Dedicated in France
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
$51.50/mo
DS-1
GARRISON
Single-tenant workhorse with IPMI and custom ISO boot.
- CPU
- 8c / 16t
- Memory
- 64 GB
- Storage
- 2 TB
- Transfer
- 50 TB
$99.50/mo
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
$167.00/mo
§04 $133.5 — 5 configurations
GPU compute in France
GX-4090
FORGE
Stable Diffusion, LLM fine-tunes up to 13B, video generation.
- GPU
- 1× RTX 4090
- CPU
- 8 vCPU
- Memory
- 64 GB
- Storage
- 1 TB
- Transfer
- Unmetered
$133.50/mo
GX-5090
FORGE-XL
32 GB VRAM. The best price per token on the network.
- GPU
- 1× RTX 5090
- CPU
- 12 vCPU
- Memory
- 96 GB
- Storage
- 2 TB
- Transfer
- Unmetered
$211.50/mo
GX-A100
CRUCIBLE
80 GB HBM2e for training runs that will not fit on consumer cards.
- GPU
- 1× A100 SXM4
- CPU
- 16 vCPU
- Memory
- 128 GB
- Storage
- 3.8 TB
- Transfer
- Unmetered
$559.00/mo
§05 $10.5 — 4 configurations
Windows RDP in France
WR-2
DESK
Windows Server 2022 with full administrator, ready in 60 seconds.
- CPU
- 2 vCPU
- Memory
- 4 GB
- Storage
- 60 GB
- Transfer
- 2 TB
$10.50/mo
WR-4
DESK-PRO
Comfortable desktop workloads and light automation.
- CPU
- 4 vCPU
- Memory
- 8 GB
- Storage
- 120 GB
- Transfer
- 5 TB
$19.00/mo
WR-8
STUDIO
Multi-session work, trading terminals, heavy browser fleets.
- CPU
- 6 vCPU
- Memory
- 16 GB
- Storage
- 240 GB
- Transfer
- 10 TB
$34.50/mo
§06 $18 — 4 configurations
Storage in France
SX-4
VAULT-4
Cheap bulk capacity for backups, mirrors and media libraries.
- CPU
- 2 vCPU
- Memory
- 4 GB
- Storage
- 4 TB
- Transfer
- Unmetered
$18.00/mo
SX-8
VAULT-8
Restic, Borg, rclone and Syncthing targets with room to grow.
- CPU
- 2 vCPU
- Memory
- 8 GB
- Storage
- 8 TB
- Transfer
- Unmetered
$31.50/mo
SX-16
VAULT-16
Seedbox-class throughput with 200 GB of NVMe cache in front.
- CPU
- 4 vCPU
- Memory
- 16 GB
- Storage
- 16 TB
- Transfer
- Unmetered
$58.00/mo
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
01 Is France a good place to host a server?
If low latency in Western Europe is your priority, Paris is our best site: 9 ms from Amsterdam and 8 ms from London, on France-IX and DE-CIX Paris. But it is not a privacy jurisdiction. France is in the Nine Eyes tier, requires connection-data retention that applies to hosts, and fully cooperates within EU judicial mechanisms. So choose Paris for speed, not for legal distance. This page lays out that trade-off plainly.
02 Does France have mandatory data retention?
Hosting providers in France must retain connection data under the Code des postes et des communications électroniques, art. L.34-1, and Decree 2021-1362 (2021).
03 Is France in Five Eyes or the EU?
France is a Nine Eyes member and an EU member state, so European Investigation Orders and DSA obligations apply without friction.
04 What latency should I expect from Paris?
Measured round-trip latency: 11 ms to Frankfurt, 8 ms to London, 9 ms to Amsterdam, 76 ms to New York, 162 ms to Singapore. Public looking glass: lg-par.incognitovps.com.
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