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
Chișinău
Chișinău · KIV-1 · Botanica
Storage in Moldova
Four to thirty-two terabytes of RAID-10 enterprise disk with unmetered transfer and NVMe read cache. Built for Borg, restic, rclone and long-term archives.
Answer
Our storage servers in Moldova are located at KIV-1 · Botanica in Chișinău and start at $16.50 per month. Moldova sits outside the EU legal perimeter, so European Investigation Orders and DSA obligations do not apply, while latency to Frankfurt stays at 42 ms. No identity is required — payment settles on-chain and deployment takes 55 seconds.
§01 $16.5 — 4 configurations
Storage servers plans in Chișinău
Priced at the Moldova index of 1.02. Cheaper in Bulgaria if jurisdiction is not the deciding factor.
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
Chișinău
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
Chișinău
SX-32
VAULT-32
Thirty-two terabytes, unmetered, in a jurisdiction of your choosing.
- CPU
- 4 vCPU
- Memory
- 32 GB
- Storage
- 32 TB
- Transfer
- Unmetered
$98.00/mo
Chișinău
Why 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.
- Non-EU state — EU instruments including European Investigation Orders do not apply 2022
- No general data-retention mandate on hosting providers 2007
- US copyright law has no extraterritorial force; no bilateral IP-enforcement treaty 2010
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.
- Frankfurt
- 42 ms
- New York
- 124 ms
- Uplink
- 10 Gbps
- EU member state
- No
§02 Optional
Add-ons
Additional IPv4
$2.50/mo per IP
Clean address from a separate /24. Up to 16 per server, no justification form.
IPv6 /64
Included
Every server ships with a routed /64. A /48 is free on request.
Encrypted snapshots
$0.04/GB/mo
Daily snapshots encrypted with your key, stored in a second jurisdiction. We cannot read them.
Full-disk encryption at provision
Included
LUKS2 with a passphrase you supply over the console at first boot. We never hold the key.
Storage servers elsewhere
§03 FAQ
Frequently asked questions
01 How much is a storage in Moldova?
The price ranges from $16.50 to $98.00 per month at KIV-1 · Botanica, depending on configuration. All plans include DDoS scrubbing, a routed IPv6 /64, and full root access.
02 Why choose Moldova for this?
Moldova sits outside the EU legal perimeter, so European Investigation Orders and DSA obligations do not reach it, yet latency to Frankfurt is just 42 ms. There is no hosting-level retention mandate and no bilateral copyright-enforcement treaty with the United States. These servers suit cost-sensitive privacy workloads, mirrors, backup targets, tor relays, bridges, and proxy endpoints.
03 What is the catch with Moldova?
You get real legal distance from both Brussels and Washington at a low price. The trade-offs are thinner transit links, 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.
04 Do you require identity verification in Moldova?
No. Token-only IDs and crypto settlement are standard across all 16 locations, with no personal details requested at any stage.
55-second deploy
Storage servers in Moldova, from $16.5
No account to create, no email to confirm, no card to enter.