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
$4.00/mo
Chișinău · KIV-1 · Botanica
Servers in Moldova
Outside the EU perimeter
Answer
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.
§01 Legal dossier
What Moldova 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
Non-EU state — EU instruments including European Investigation Orders do not apply
Instrument · 2022
EU candidate status granted 2022; no acquis transposition, no judicial-cooperation membership - 02
No general data-retention mandate on hosting providers
Instrument · 2007
Law No. 241/2007 on Electronic Communications — retention duties scoped to operators - 03
US copyright law has no extraterritorial force; no bilateral IP-enforcement treaty
Instrument · 2010
Law No. 139/2010 on Copyright — domestic procedure only - 04
Not a member of any Eyes intelligence-sharing tier
Instrument · 2024
No documented SIGINT Seniors participation
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.
Measured latency
Round-trip in milliseconds, measured from Chișinău over the last 30 days.
Frankfurt 42 ms
Amsterdam 46 ms
London 54 ms
New York 124 ms
Singapore 152 ms
Network
MD-IX + direct Bucharest and Frankfurt paths; transit via StarNet and Cogent.
Facility
- Facility
- KIV-1 · Botanica
- Uplink
- 10 Gbps per node
- EU member state
- No
- Intelligence alliance
- No documented participation
- Location live since
- 2021
- Test address
- 185.132.49.10
- Looking glass
- lg-kiv.incognitovps.com
- Coordinates
- 47.0105, 28.8638
Best for
- Cost-sensitive privacy workloads
- Mirrors and backup targets
- Tor relays and bridges
- Proxy endpoints
§02 $4 — 6 configurations
Linux VPS in Moldova
HV-2
RELAY
VPN endpoint, proxy, small site. The default first server.
- CPU
- 2 vCPU
- Memory
- 4 GB
- Storage
- 60 GB
- Transfer
- 4 TB
$7.00/mo
HV-4
VECTOR
Docker stacks, CI runners, a pruned chain node.
- CPU
- 4 vCPU
- Memory
- 8 GB
- Storage
- 140 GB
- Transfer
- 8 TB
$14.50/mo
§03 $47 — 6 configurations
Dedicated in Moldova
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
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
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
§04 $121.5 — 5 configurations
GPU compute in Moldova
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
$121.50/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
$193.00/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
$509.00/mo
§05 $9.5 — 4 configurations
Windows RDP in Moldova
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
$9.50/mo
WR-4
DESK-PRO
Comfortable desktop workloads and light automation.
- CPU
- 4 vCPU
- Memory
- 8 GB
- Storage
- 120 GB
- Transfer
- 5 TB
$17.50/mo
WR-8
STUDIO
Multi-session work, trading terminals, heavy browser fleets.
- CPU
- 6 vCPU
- Memory
- 16 GB
- Storage
- 240 GB
- Transfer
- 10 TB
$31.50/mo
§06 $16.5 — 4 configurations
Storage in Moldova
SX-4
VAULT-4
Cheap bulk capacity for backups, mirrors and media libraries.
- CPU
- 2 vCPU
- Memory
- 4 GB
- Storage
- 4 TB
- Transfer
- Unmetered
$16.50/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
$28.50/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
$53.00/mo
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
01 Is Moldova a good place to host a server?
Chișinău, Moldova, sits outside the EU legal perimeter: European Investigation Orders and DSA obligations do not reach it, and no bilateral copyright-enforcement treaty exists with the United States. Latency to Frankfurt measures 42 ms. There is no hosting-level retention mandate, and the trade-offs are stated plainly on this page.
02 Does Moldova have mandatory data retention?
Hosting providers in Moldova face no general data-retention mandate. The relevant instrument, Law No. 241/2007 on Electronic Communications, scopes retention duties to operators, not hosts.
03 Is Moldova in Five Eyes or the EU?
Moldova has no documented participation in any Eyes intelligence-sharing tier. It is not an EU member state, so EU judicial-cooperation instruments do not extend there.
04 What latency should I expect from Chișinău?
Measured round-trip times from Chișinău: 42 ms to Frankfurt, 54 ms to London, 46 ms to Amsterdam, 124 ms to New York, 152 ms to Singapore. A looking glass is available at lg-kiv.incognitovps.com.
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