# Servers in France
> 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.
**Source:** https://incognitovps.com/servers/france
**Updated:** 2026-08-13

## Legal dossier — France

| Claim | Instrument | Year |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Connection-data retention is mandatory and applies to hosting providers | Code des postes et des communications électroniques, art. L.34-1; Decree 2021-1362 | 2021 |
| General retention upheld for national-security purposes | Conseil d’État, French Data Network and others, decision no. 393099 | 2021 |
| Hosting providers must remove manifestly unlawful content on notification | Loi pour la confiance dans l’économie numérique (LCEN) 2004-575, art. 6 | 2004 |
| Intelligence services may require algorithmic traffic analysis at operators | Loi relative au renseignement 2015-912 | 2015 |

## 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.

## Facility

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Facility | PAR-1 · Aubervilliers |
| City | Paris |
| Coordinates | 48.8566, 2.3522 |
| Uplink | 25 Gbps per node |
| EU member state | Yes |
| Eyes alliance | nine Eyes |
| Live since | 2023 |
| Looking glass | lg-par.incognitovps.com |
| Test address | 185.132.44.80 |
| Network | France-IX and DE-CIX Paris peering; transit via Cogent, Arelion and Orange. |

## Measured latency

| Destination | Round trip |
| --- | --- |
| Frankfurt | 11 ms |
| Amsterdam | 9 ms |
| London | 8 ms |
| New York | 76 ms |
| Singapore | 162 ms |

## Pricing here

| Product | From |
| --- | --- |
| Linux VPS | $4.50/mo |
| Dedicated servers | $51.50/mo |
| GPU compute | $133.50/mo |
| Windows RDP | $10.50/mo |
| Storage servers | $18.00/mo |

## Best for

- Latency-critical French and Benelux audiences
- Low-latency game servers
- CDN origins
- Workloads with no jurisdictional requirement

## Frequently asked questions

### 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.

### 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).

### 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.

### 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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