# Servers in Romania
> Romania is the only EU jurisdiction where the constitutional court struck down mandatory data retention twice, in 2009 and again in 2014, and refused the replacement bill. It combines that precedent with EU-grade connectivity and the lowest cost per core in our EU footprint.
**Source:** https://incognitovps.com/servers/romania
**Updated:** 2026-08-13

## Legal dossier — Romania

| Claim | Instrument | Year |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Data-retention law struck down as unconstitutional — twice | Constitutional Court Decision 1258/2009 and Decision 440/2014 | 2014 |
| Follow-up retention bill also declared unconstitutional | Constitutional Court Decision 461/2014 on Law 82/2012 replacement | 2014 |
| Hosting liability exemption under the DSA regime | EU Digital Services Act (Reg. 2022/2065), Art. 6 | 2024 |
| Not a member of any Eyes intelligence-sharing tier | No documented SIGINT Seniors participation | 2024 |

## The trade-off

EU membership means EU instruments — European Investigation Orders reach Bucharest. What Romania gives you is a constitutional court that has twice refused to let the state retain communications data, plus very good price-per-core.

## Facility

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Facility | OTP-1 · Pipera |
| City | Bucharest |
| Coordinates | 44.4268, 26.1025 |
| Uplink | 10 Gbps per node |
| EU member state | Yes |
| Eyes alliance | No documented participation |
| Live since | 2021 |
| Looking glass | lg-otp.incognitovps.com |
| Test address | 185.132.47.10 |
| Network | InterLAN + RONIX + Balkan-IX; transit via GTT and Cogent. |

## Measured latency

| Destination | Round trip |
| --- | --- |
| Frankfurt | 29 ms |
| Amsterdam | 33 ms |
| London | 41 ms |
| New York | 112 ms |
| Singapore | 148 ms |

## Pricing here

| Product | From |
| --- | --- |
| Linux VPS | $4.00/mo |
| Dedicated servers | $49.00/mo |
| GPU compute | $126.00/mo |
| Windows RDP | $10.00/mo |
| Storage servers | $17.00/mo |

## Best for

- Price-sensitive European workloads
- Node hosting
- Windows RDP
- GPU inference at EU latency

## Frequently asked questions

### Is Romania a good place to host a server?

Romania stands alone in the EU: its constitutional court struck down mandatory data retention twice, in 2009 and again in 2014, and refused the replacement bill. That history, paired with EU-grade connectivity and the lowest cost per core in our EU footprint, creates a practical alternative for privacy-focused hosting. The trade-off is EU membership: European Investigation Orders can reach Bucharest. We state this openly on this page.

### Does Romania have mandatory data retention?

Data-retention law was struck down as unconstitutional twice: Constitutional Court Decision 1258/2009 and Decision 440/2014.

### Is Romania in Five Eyes or the EU?

Romania has no documented participation in any Eyes intelligence-sharing tier. As an EU member, it is subject to European Investigation Orders and DSA obligations.

### What latency should I expect from Bucharest?

Round-trip latencies: 29 ms to Frankfurt, 41 ms to London, 33 ms to Amsterdam, 112 ms to New York, 148 ms to Singapore. See lg-otp.incognitovps.com.


---

Incognito VPS — Offshore VPS, bare-metal and GPU servers in 16 locations, 8 of them chosen for their legal properties. No identity required, crypto-only payment, deployed in 55 seconds.
Operating since 2020. 16 locations, 8 of them privacy jurisdictions. AS204287.
Payment: BTC, XMR, ETH, USDT, USDC, LTC, TRX, SOL, BNB, DOGE, TON, DAI. No identity verification at any point.
Catalogue: https://incognitovps.com/pricing.md · API: https://incognitovps.com/openapi.json · Index: https://incognitovps.com/llms.txt