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Offshore hosting in Panama
distance from US law, closeness to US users
Panama is how NoDMCAVPS resolves the tension that decides most of these choices. It is a separate jurisdiction with its own privacy statute and no notice-and-takedown regime, while sitting close enough to both American coasts that a North American audience will not notice where the server is.
What the law actually says here
Panamanian law contains no equivalent of section 512 and imposes no obligation on an operator to act on a foreign copyright notice. Its data-protection and corporate-secrecy tradition is long-standing and predates the current interest in offshore hosting by decades. A claim against a Panamanian host is a Panamanian proceeding.
What Panama is good for
- Services with North or South American users
- Anything where US latency matters but US jurisdiction must not apply
- Origins for projects previously hosted in the United States
What it is not the right choice for
- European-facing interactive services — Sofia or Amsterdam will be three times faster
- Very high-volume transit, which costs more here than in Europe
Latency
Roughly 40-70 ms to Miami and the US east coast, 70-100 ms to the west coast, 130-160 ms to Europe.
Available here
- DMCA-Ignored VPS — from $4.50/mo
- Offshore Dedicated — from $69/mo
- Offshore RDP — from $9.60/mo
The obvious move for anything migrating off a US provider after a suspension.