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
$5.00/mo
Panama City · PTY-1 · Costa del Este
Servers in Panama
No MLAT with the West
Answer
Panama has constitutional communications-privacy protection, no hosting-level retention statute, and no MLAT in force with most EU member states — foreign requests fall back to letters rogatory. Note the existing US MLAT: this is distance from Brussels, not from Washington.
§01 Legal dossier
What Panama 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
Constitutional protection of private communications requiring judicial authorisation
Instrument · 2004
Political Constitution of Panama, Art. 29 - 02
No general data-retention statute covering hosting providers
Instrument · 2009
Law 51 of 2009 on electronic documents — no retention mandate for hosts - 03
No mutual legal assistance treaty in force with most EU member states
Instrument · 2024
Panama MLAT register — bilateral treaties limited; requests route through letters rogatory - 04
Personal-data statute modelled on GDPR principles with local enforcement only
Instrument · 2021
Law 81 of 2019 on Personal Data Protection, in force March 2021
The trade-off
Genuine legal distance from Europe, and the letters-rogatory route is slow by design. But Panama does have an MLAT with the United States, so it is the wrong choice if your threat model points at Washington. Latency to Europe is 130 ms.
Measured latency
Round-trip in milliseconds, measured from Panama City over the last 30 days.
Frankfurt 132 ms
Amsterdam 130 ms
London 128 ms
New York 61 ms
Singapore 218 ms
Network
Direct subsea landing (MAYA-1, PCCS, ARCOS-1); transit via Liberty Networks and Cogent.
Facility
- Facility
- PTY-1 · Costa del Este
- Uplink
- 10 Gbps per node
- EU member state
- No
- Intelligence alliance
- No documented participation
- Location live since
- 2021
- Test address
- 185.132.50.10
- Looking glass
- lg-pty.incognitovps.com
- Coordinates
- 8.9824, -79.5199
Best for
- Latin-American latency
- Legal separation from the EU
- Cold archives
- Redundancy outside Europe
§02 $5 — 6 configurations
Linux VPS in Panama
HV-2
RELAY
VPN endpoint, proxy, small site. The default first server.
- CPU
- 2 vCPU
- Memory
- 4 GB
- Storage
- 60 GB
- Transfer
- 4 TB
$8.50/mo
HV-4
VECTOR
Docker stacks, CI runners, a pruned chain node.
- CPU
- 4 vCPU
- Memory
- 8 GB
- Storage
- 140 GB
- Transfer
- 8 TB
$17.50/mo
§03 $57 — 6 configurations
Dedicated in Panama
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
$57.00/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
$110.50/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
$185.00/mo
§04 $20 — 4 configurations
Storage in Panama
SX-4
VAULT-4
Cheap bulk capacity for backups, mirrors and media libraries.
- CPU
- 2 vCPU
- Memory
- 4 GB
- Storage
- 4 TB
- Transfer
- Unmetered
$20.00/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
$34.50/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
$64.50/mo
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
01 Is Panama a good place to host a server?
Panama's constitution shields communications from interference, no hosting-level retention statute exists, and most EU member states have no MLAT in force with Panama — foreign requests fall back to letters rogatory. But the US MLAT is current, so this is distance from Brussels, not Washington. The full trade-off appears on this page.
02 Does Panama have mandatory data retention?
There is no general data-retention statute that covers hosting providers. Law 51 of 2009 on electronic documents carries no retention mandate for hosts (2009).
03 Is Panama in Five Eyes or the EU?
Panama shows no documented participation in any Eyes intelligence-sharing tier, and as a non-EU member, EU judicial-cooperation instruments do not reach it.
04 What latency should I expect from Panama City?
Measured round-trip: 132 ms to Frankfurt, 128 ms to London, 130 ms to Amsterdam, 61 ms to New York, and 218 ms to Singapore. A looking glass is published at lg-pty.incognitovps.com.
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