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

## Legal dossier — Moldova

| Claim | Instrument | Year |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Non-EU state — EU instruments including European Investigation Orders do not apply | EU candidate status granted 2022; no acquis transposition, no judicial-cooperation membership | 2022 |
| No general data-retention mandate on hosting providers | Law No. 241/2007 on Electronic Communications — retention duties scoped to operators | 2007 |
| US copyright law has no extraterritorial force; no bilateral IP-enforcement treaty | Law No. 139/2010 on Copyright — domestic procedure only | 2010 |
| Not a member of any Eyes intelligence-sharing tier | No documented SIGINT Seniors participation | 2024 |

## 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.

## Facility

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Facility | KIV-1 · Botanica |
| City | Chișinău |
| Coordinates | 47.0105, 28.8638 |
| Uplink | 10 Gbps per node |
| EU member state | No |
| Eyes alliance | No documented participation |
| Live since | 2021 |
| Looking glass | lg-kiv.incognitovps.com |
| Test address | 185.132.49.10 |
| Network | MD-IX + direct Bucharest and Frankfurt paths; transit via StarNet and Cogent. |

## Measured latency

| Destination | Round trip |
| --- | --- |
| Frankfurt | 42 ms |
| Amsterdam | 46 ms |
| London | 54 ms |
| New York | 124 ms |
| Singapore | 152 ms |

## Pricing here

| Product | From |
| --- | --- |
| Linux VPS | $4.00/mo |
| Dedicated servers | $47.00/mo |
| GPU compute | $121.50/mo |
| Windows RDP | $9.50/mo |
| Storage servers | $16.50/mo |

## Best for

- Cost-sensitive privacy workloads
- Mirrors and backup targets
- Tor relays and bridges
- Proxy endpoints

## Frequently asked questions

### 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.

### 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.

### 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.

### 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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