Chisinau · Standard tier · our first location, 2021

Moldova VPS. The original, since 2021.

The reference implementation of DMCA-ignored hosting — and the rack VPSRento was founded on. Five years of ignored bulk complaints, zero customer identities, and a track record no other location can claim. No KYC, crypto-only, root in 55 seconds.

  • Standard tier
  • from $5.99/mo
  • 1 Gbps · 1 Tbps+ DDoS
  • Median deploy 55s
deploy — chisinau
Why this jurisdiction

Where "DMCA-ignored" stopped being a slogan

Chisinau is where VPSRento started in March 2021, and Moldova remains the reference implementation of DMCA-ignored hosting. Moldova's Law No. 139 on copyright exists on paper, but enforcement runs through Moldovan courts — which do not recognize foreign default judgments and do not operate a notice-and-takedown conveyor belt. There is no Moldovan DMCA equivalent, no retention mandate for hosting providers, and no local legal culture of doing foreign rights-holders' paperwork for them.

Five years in, this location carries our longest track record: thousands of servers deployed, a documented history of bulk DMCA campaigns arriving by the pallet and leaving unanswered, and an abuse desk that knows precisely which claims deserve a reply. The list is short: valid court orders issued in Moldova. Nothing else has ever made it past the intake filter.

When customers ask where to start, this is the answer. Not because it is exotic — because it is proven.

Legal highlights

  • The classic DMCA-ignored jurisdiction — our original location, online continuously since March 2021.
  • Foreign judgments carry no force — Moldovan courts do not recognize default judgments from abroad.
  • No retention mandate — no law requires hosting providers to log or keep customer activity.
  • Court order required. A valid Moldovan court order is the only instrument we act on here.
  • Longest VPSRento track record — five years of precedent at standard tier pricing.
Datacenter & network

Chisinau facility, battle-tested fabric

Our oldest rack, rebuilt twice since 2021 — currently the same EPYC node standard as every location.

Tier III+ facility

Chisinau datacenter: N+1 power and cooling, biometric access, 24/7 on-site hands. Our home rack since day one — we know every cable in it.

AMD EPYC KVM nodes

EPYC 75F3 "Milan" hosts for SV-Nano through SV-Pro; EPYC 9654 "Genoa" for SV-Max and SV-Ultra. DDR4 ECC, NVMe RAID-10, no overselling.

1 Tbps+ DDoS protection

Always-on L3/L4 mitigation in front of every IP, included free. L7 filtering available as a $4.99/mo add-on at checkout.

Network

2×10 Gbps uplinks via GTT and Arelion through Frankfurt; local peering at MD-IX. Eastern-European routes are excellent; trans-Atlantic runs a single clean hop via Frankfurt.

Encrypted nodes, no logs

Full-disk encryption on every host. No activity logs, no connection logs — we can't sell or surrender what we never record.

Clean IPs

Every IPv4 is checked against 40+ DNSBLs before assignment. Flagged addresses are quarantined and recycled, never sold.

Looking glass & test endpoints

  • Looking glasslg-md.vpsrento.com
  • Test IPv4185.220.101.2
  • Test IPv62a0d:5940:1::2
  • Speedtest files100 MB / 1 GB over HTTP at the looking-glass host

Test from your network

Run these before you buy. Numbers from your own ISP beat any marketing table.

$ ping -c 10 lg-md.vpsrento.com $ mtr -rwzbc 50 lg-md.vpsrento.com $ curl -o /dev/null http://lg-md.vpsrento.com/1000mb.test
Latency

Median RTT from Chisinau

Measured against our looking-glass host, trailing 30 days, median round-trip. Your route may differ — always test from your own network.

DestinationTypical routeMedian RTT
🇬🇧 London — Western Europevia Frankfurt46 ms
🇩🇪 Frankfurt — Central Europedirect upstream hop29 ms
🇺🇸 New York — US Eastvia Frankfurt117 ms
🇺🇸 Los Angeles — US Westvia Frankfurt / New York178 ms
🇸🇬 Singapore — Asia-Pacificvia Frankfurt197 ms
🇧🇷 São Paulo — South Americavia Frankfurt / Miami232 ms

Who should pick Moldova

  • First-time offshore buyers who want the proven default — five years of precedent, not a promise.
  • Publishers and file-hosts facing bulk DMCA campaigns — this location has ignored more of them than any other in our lineup.
  • Budget builds — $5.99 entry with the deepest track record in offshore hosting. Best value we sell.

"Our investigative outlet got three DMCA threats last year. VPSRento's reply was one line: valid court order from the hosting jurisdiction or nothing. We're still online."

Anya indie publisher, Moldova
Honest note: trans-Atlantic and Asian latency is average (117 ms to New York, 197 ms to Singapore). If your users sit mostly in North America, Panama will feel faster.
Plans in Chisinau

Standard tier pricing

Our base prices, unchanged since launch. Same five plans, same specs, same 55-second deploys as every location.

PlanvCPU (AMD EPYC)RAMNVMeBandwidthPrice/mo
SV-Nano12 GB DDR425 GB2 TB @ 1 Gbps$5.99
SV-Core24 GB DDR460 GB4 TB @ 1 Gbps$10.99
SV-Pro48 GB DDR4120 GBUnmetered @ 1 Gbps$19.99
SV-Max816 GB DDR4240 GBUnmetered @ 1 Gbps$36.99
SV-Ultra1632 GB DDR4480 GBUnmetered @ 1 Gbps$69.99

Quarterly −10% · 6 months −30% · annual −50%. Testing first? The hourly SV-Nano sandbox runs $0.009/hr, max 72 h. Windows VPS available in Chisinau from $18.99/mo — see Windows plans.

FAQ

Moldova, answered

Yes. The first VPSRento node went live in Chisinau in March 2021, after the team's previous host folded under a bulk DMCA request. The location has run continuously since — it carries our longest uptime history, our oldest customer workloads, and the abuse desk's deepest file of ignored complaints.

A US DMCA notice has no legal standing in Moldova, and we do not relay foreign civil notices to customers. Copyright claims require a valid Moldovan court order before we forward, suspend, or touch anything. Five years of operation, and that bar has never been met by an automated complaint mill.

Latency. US West (~178 ms) and Asia-Pacific (~197 ms) routes are average. If most of your users are in Western Europe, Bucharest or Amsterdam are faster; if they are in North America, consider Panama. For everything else, this is the default answer.

Deploy in Chisinau in 55 seconds

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