Choosing a location is usually presented as a latency decision. It is also a legal one: the country where the hardware sits determines whose courts, whose data-protection regime and whose takedown practice apply to it. This page explains how to weigh that, then points at the jurisdictions we run dedicated servers in.
The distinction that actually matters
- Your contract is with ImpCom International Ltd and governed by Seychelles law
- Your server sits in a datacenter and answers to the law of that country
- Choosing a location is therefore choosing which local law can reach the machine
- Both facts are true at once, and only the second one changes when you pick a country
What to weigh
Where your audience is
Latency is still real. A server close to your users is faster, and for most projects that outweighs a marginal legal preference. Serving Europe from Asia to gain a jurisdiction is usually the wrong trade.
Whether you handle EU personal data
If you process personal data of people in the EU, the obligations follow the data and the people, not the server. Hosting inside the EU or the EEA can simplify that rather than complicate it, which is why our European locations are popular with businesses, not only with privacy projects.
How exposed the content is to complaints
If your project attracts automated copyright complaints, a provider that forwards every notice as a suspension is the real problem. We do not, in any of our locations. That is a policy of ours, not a property of the country.
Where your second copy lives
Whatever you choose, keep a backup in a different country. A jurisdiction question becomes a continuity question the moment anything goes wrong locally, from a legal order to a power cut.
Where we run dedicated servers
Each of these has its own page with what the location offers in practice:
- Iceland: renewable power, free-expression tradition, EEA
- Switzerland: outside the EU, its own strong data-protection law
- Netherlands: the connectivity hub of Europe
- Romania: EU, excellent fibre, lower cost
- Bulgaria: EU, low cost, gateway to the Balkans and Turkey
- Moldova: outside the EU, close to it
- Ukraine: outside the EU, long-standing offshore hosting market
- Hong Kong: the Asia-Pacific gateway
We also run dedicated servers in many other locations, from Finland, Sweden, Norway and France to Canada, Brazil, Colombia, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, Australia, Dubai and more. Ask us if the one you need is not listed.
It means we do not act as an automated takedown pipeline: a complaint does not get your server suspended without cause. It does not mean a lawful order in the country where the hardware sits has no effect, and no provider that tells you otherwise is being straight with you. Choose a location that fits your project, and stay inside our acceptable use policy.
Minimum retention is the default: operational logs are kept for 7 days and then discarded. Signup needs no KYC and no email if you prefer, and payment is in crypto, so there is little about you for anyone to request in the first place. See our privacy policy.
Adult content is permitted in every Impreza location except our Iceland datacenter. Everything else in our acceptable use policy applies equally everywhere.
Regulation changes, and how it applies depends on your project, your customers and where you operate. Use these pages to shortlist a location, then take advice for your own situation before you rely on it.
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