[ AMS · SAFE-HARBOUR REGION ]
Offshore hosting in the Netherlands
the best-connected address in Europe
Amsterdam is the NoDMCAVPS edge, and it is where the European internet physically meets itself. AMS-IX peering means almost every network is one short hop away, and for anything serving a European audience the difference is measurable rather than theoretical.
What the law actually says here
The Netherlands has no DMCA and no domestic notice-and-takedown timetable. It does have an active and well-resourced enforcement culture, and Dutch operators receive more complaints than operators anywhere else on this list simply because so much traffic passes through. We file them. What we do not do is pretend the Netherlands is as distant from European process as Moldova — it is not, and the honest framing matters more than the marketing one.
What Netherlands is good for
- Reverse proxies and CDN edges in front of an origin elsewhere
- Latency-critical European services
- Anything that benefits from dense peering
What it is not the right choice for
- A sole origin for a project where maximum legal distance is the requirement — put the origin in Chișinău and proxy through here instead
Latency
Typically 5-25 ms across western Europe, 85-110 ms to the US east coast. The lowest latency in our safe-harbour tier.
Available here
- DMCA-Ignored VPS — from $4.50/mo
- Offshore RDP — from $9.60/mo
- Offshore Storage — from $8.50/mo
- 10 Gbps Unmetered — from $37.50/mo
The classic pattern here is Amsterdam in front, Chișinău behind. See the guide on reverse-proxying an offshore origin.