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
Moscow · MOW-2 · Butovo
Servers in Russia
Beyond Western reach
Answer
Russia is outside every Western enforcement channel — Council of Europe cooperation ended in 2022 and neither DMCA nor DSA has force there. In exchange, Russian law applies in full, including mandatory SORM interception at the operator level. Choose it only when your threat model is specifically Western.
§01 Legal dossier
What Russia 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
EU and US court orders have no enforcement path; MLAT cooperation suspended since 2022
Instrument · 2022
Council of Europe expulsion, 16 Mar 2022 — Russia ceased to be a party to CoE conventions - 02
US DMCA and EU DSA carry no legal force in Russian courts
Instrument · 2008
Civil Code Part IV — domestic copyright procedure only - 03
Data-localisation duty applies to Russian citizens’ personal data
Instrument · 2015
Federal Law 242-FZ on personal data localisation - 04
SORM lawful-interception infrastructure is mandatory for operators
Instrument · 2016
Federal Law 374-FZ ("Yarovaya package")
The trade-off
We publish this one straight because the honest version is the useful version: Russia removes Western legal reach and replaces it with Russian legal reach, including SORM interception obligations at the operator level. It is the right answer for a narrow threat model and the wrong answer for a general one. Assume network-level observation and encrypt accordingly.
Measured latency
Round-trip in milliseconds, measured from Moscow over the last 30 days.
Frankfurt 38 ms
Amsterdam 42 ms
London 47 ms
New York 121 ms
Singapore 174 ms
Network
MSK-IX + DATA-IX; transit via Rostelecom and RETN, direct Frankfurt path.
Facility
- Facility
- MOW-2 · Butovo
- Uplink
- 10 Gbps per node
- EU member state
- No
- Intelligence alliance
- No documented participation
- Location live since
- 2022
- Test address
- 185.132.51.10
- Looking glass
- lg-mow.incognitovps.com
- Coordinates
- 55.7558, 37.6173
Best for
- Workloads whose adversary is exclusively Western
- CIS-region latency
- Regional mirrors
§02 $4 — 6 configurations
Linux VPS in Russia
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 Russia
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 $9.5 — 4 configurations
Windows RDP in Russia
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
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
01 Is Russia a good place to host a server?
Russia lies outside every Western enforcement channel — Council of Europe cooperation ended in 2022 and neither DMCA nor DSA has force there. In exchange, Russian law applies in full, including mandatory SORM interception at the operator level. Choose it only when your threat model is specifically Western. The trade-off is set out in full on this page rather than omitted.
02 Does Russia have mandatory data retention?
The legal dossier on this page lists the applicable Russian statutes, each with its citation and year.
03 Is Russia in Five Eyes or the EU?
Russia has no documented participation in any Eyes intelligence-sharing tier and is not an EU member state, so EU judicial-cooperation instruments do not reach it.
04 What latency should I expect from Moscow?
Measured round-trip to Frankfurt is 38 ms, to London 47 ms, to Amsterdam 42 ms, to New York 121 ms, and to Singapore 174 ms. A looking glass is published at lg-mow.incognitovps.com.
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