VPSRENTO
Victoria · Standard tier
Seychelles VPS. The IBC capital of hosting.
The island state that registered its two-hundred-thousandth international business company and never looked up. Seychellois courts treat foreign copyright claims as paperwork from a foreign jurisdiction; volumes of DMCA notices carry zero legal effect in Victoria. No KYC, crypto-only, root in 55 seconds.
- Standard tier
- from $5.99/mo
- 1 Gbps · 1 Tbps+ DDoS
- Median deploy 55s
A registry that learned to say "local court, please"
Seychelles runs the densest IBC registry in the world — well over two hundred thousand international business companies for a population of under a hundred thousand. That economy taught its legal system a durable reflex: claims from abroad are someone else's paperwork until a Seychellois court says otherwise.
The Seychelles Copyright Act exists on paper, as does membership in the major IP conventions. What does not exist is enforcement against foreign claimants: there is no notice-and-takedown regime, no administrative IP body with takedown powers, and no record of courts granting ex parte orders against hosting providers on civil copyright grounds. Automated DMCA notices arrive by the thousand and are, legally, void — US law, wrong country, wrong procedure, wrong everything.
Geography adds a second moat: 1,500 kilometres from the nearest landmass, cabled via the PEACE and SEAS submarine systems through Mauritius. Claims that do reach Victoria arrive by email, are logged, and are answered only when accompanied by an order of the Supreme Court of Seychelles. Across our entire network's history, that bar has never been cleared by a bulk complaint.
Legal highlights
- IBC-jurisdiction reflex — courts require local process; foreign claims start from zero.
- DMCA notices: zero legal effect — no notice-and-takedown regime exists to give them force.
- Outside all surveillance alliances — no 5/9/14-eyes membership, no intelligence-sharing hooks.
- Court order required — Supreme Court of Seychelles only.
- Dual-ocean cables — PEACE + SEAS systems give the island Indian Ocean redundancy.
Victoria facility, Indian Ocean fabric
Same node build as every VPSRento location — the difference is the postcode and the cable path.
Tier III+ facility
Victoria datacenter on Mahé: N+1 power and cooling, biometric access, 24/7 on-site hands, and the island's only carrier-neutral meet room.
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 the PEACE and SEAS submarine cable systems through Mauritius and Kenya; regional peering in Johannesburg and Mumbai. Europe routes via the Suez path.
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-sc.vpsrento.com
- Test IPv4156.59.8.2
- Test IPv62001:4280:7::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-sc.vpsrento.com
$ mtr -rwzbc 50 lg-sc.vpsrento.com
$ curl -o /dev/null http://lg-sc.vpsrento.com/1000mb.test
Median RTT from Victoria
Measured against our looking-glass host, trailing 30 days, median round-trip. Your route may differ — always test from your own network.
| Destination | Typical route | Median RTT |
|---|---|---|
| 🇬🇧 London — Western Europe | via Suez | 145 ms |
| 🇩🇪 Frankfurt — Central Europe | via Suez | 158 ms |
| 🇺🇸 New York — US East | via Suez / Marseille | 188 ms |
| 🇺🇸 Los Angeles — US West | via Suez | 242 ms |
| 🇸🇬 Singapore — Asia-Pacific | via Mauritius / Jakarta | 82 ms |
| 🇧🇷 São Paulo — South America | via Suez / Madrid | 258 ms |
Who should pick Seychelles
- Mirror and archive operators — Indian Ocean geography with real reach into Africa, the Gulf and South Asia.
- Publishers whose threat model is automated complaints — the volume game fails completely here.
- IBC-structured businesses — hosting in the same jurisdiction as the entity, with the registry's reflexes behind it.
"2 TB/month was never going to be enough. Unmetered on SV-Pro is real — I've pushed 38 TB in a month, zero tickets."
Standard tier pricing
Our base prices, unchanged since launch. Same five plans, same specs, same 55-second deploys as every location.
| Plan | vCPU (AMD EPYC) | RAM | NVMe | Bandwidth | Price/mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SV-Nano | 1 | 2 GB DDR4 | 25 GB | 2 TB @ 1 Gbps | $5.99 |
| SV-Core | 2 | 4 GB DDR4 | 60 GB | 4 TB @ 1 Gbps | $10.99 |
| SV-Pro | 4 | 8 GB DDR4 | 120 GB | Unmetered @ 1 Gbps | $19.99 |
| SV-Max | 8 | 16 GB DDR4 | 240 GB | Unmetered @ 1 Gbps | $36.99 |
| SV-Ultra | 16 | 32 GB DDR4 | 480 GB | Unmetered @ 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 Victoria from $18.99/mo — see Windows plans.
Seychelles, answered
No. The DMCA is United States federal law; Seychelles has no equivalent notice-and-takedown statute, and its courts do not enforce foreign civil claims without a local action. A notice sent to our Victoria abuse desk is logged and answered only if it arrives with an order of the Supreme Court of Seychelles. None ever has.
We do not relay foreign civil notices to customers — that is the point of the jurisdiction. If a complaint ever arrived with genuine Seychellois legal process behind it, we would act on the order, and only then. Automated notices get a one-line reply pointing to the correct jurisdiction and nothing else.
Only if your users are in Europe or the Americas — 145 ms to London, 188 to New York. For Africa, the Gulf and South Asia it is excellent: 82 ms to Singapore, and Johannesburg routes under 90. If your audience is Western, pick Moldova or Panama instead; we would rather you chose correctly.
Other jurisdictions
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