Amsterdam · AMS-3 · Science Park

Storage in Netherlands

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

At our AMS-3 · Science Park facility, storage servers start at $18.50 per month. You get AMS-IX-grade peering with over 1,100 direct adjacencies and 25 Gbps uplinks—Amsterdam's network advantage. No identity is required, payment is crypto-only, and your server deploys in 55 seconds.

§01 $18.5 — 4 configurations

Storage servers plans in Amsterdam

Priced at the Netherlands index of 1.16. Cheaper in Romania · Bulgaria · Moldova · France · Germany · Canada if jurisdiction is not the deciding factor.

SX-4

VAULT-4

Cheap bulk capacity for backups, mirrors and media libraries.

CPU
2 vCPU
Memory
4 GB
Storage
4 TB
Transfer
Unmetered

$18.50/mo

Amsterdam

Deploy
Most chosen

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

$32.50/mo

Amsterdam

Deploy

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

$60.50/mo

Amsterdam

Deploy

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

$111.50/mo

Amsterdam

Deploy

Why Netherlands

Amsterdam gives you AMS-IX-grade peering with over 1,100 direct adjacencies and 25 Gbps uplinks. Dutch blanket data retention was struck down in 2015 and never restored, and US DMCA notices carry no direct legal force. The trade-off is EU membership and Nine Eyes participation.

  • Blanket telecom data retention struck down and never re-enacted 2015
  • Hosting providers benefit from conditional liability exemption (mere conduit / hosting) 2024
  • US DMCA §512 has no direct legal effect; notices are handled under Dutch NTD code of conduct 2018
Full legal dossier

The trade-off

The fastest, best-connected address we sell — and the one with the most enforcement exposure. The Netherlands is an EU member and a Nine Eyes participant. Pick it for network quality, not for legal distance.

Frankfurt
7 ms
New York
74 ms
Uplink
25 Gbps
EU member state
Yes
§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 Netherlands?

Pricing starts at $18.50 per month at AMS-3 · Science Park and goes up to $111.50 for the largest setup. Each server includes DDoS scrubbing, a routed IPv6 /64, and full root access.

02 Why choose Netherlands for this?

Amsterdam offers AMS-IX-grade peering with over 1,100 direct adjacencies and 25 Gbps uplinks. Dutch blanket data retention was struck down in 2015 and never restored, and US DMCA notices carry no direct legal force. Ideal for latency-sensitive workloads, CDN origins, mirrors, game servers, and high-throughput transfers.

03 What is the catch with Netherlands?

This is the fastest, best-connected location we sell—but also the one with the most enforcement exposure. The Netherlands is an EU member and a Nine Eyes participant. Choose it for network quality, not for legal distance.

04 Do you require identity verification in Netherlands?

No, it does not. The same token-only model applies in all 16 locations — no name, email, phone, or ID at any point, and settlement is crypto-only.

55-second deploy

Storage servers in Netherlands, from $18.5

No account to create, no email to confirm, no card to enter.