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🇲🇩 Chișinău · Trabia MD

VPS hosting in Moldova

Moldova sits outside the EU and outside direct US process, while staying a short hop from the major European exchanges. It is the widest jurisdictional gap we offer in Europe, and the legal note below sets out what that gap does and does not cover.

DMCA ignoredFrom $3.19/mo20 Gbps uplink1 Tbps scrubbingTier III

Facility

Datacenter
Trabia MD
Tier
Tier III
City
Chișinău
Country code
MD
Uplink capacity
20 Gbps
DDoS scrubbing
1 Tbps
Price index
×1.10

Against the rest of the fleet: 5 of 8 on uplink, 6 of 8 on scrubbing capacity, 5 of 8 on price index where 1 is the cheapest. Ties share a position. The comparison table has the full column.

Latency

from Bucharest
11 ms
from Frankfurt
38 ms
from Kyiv
19 ms
from Amsterdam
44 ms
Example target — not live yet
ping 198.51.100.50
https://kiv.nimbusvps.com/1000MB.test

Example addresses reserved for documentation (RFC 5737). They do not answer — the live per-site targets go up when each site opens to orders.

Legal posture

Moldova does not enforce foreign copyright judgments, and a US notice reaches us here with no legal force of its own. What it is not is unreachable: Moldova and the United States are both parties to the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime, which opens a formal mutual-assistance channel for electronic evidence between them. Anything that lands still has to be run through Moldovan process.

Jurisdiction
Moldova — non-EU
DMCA handling
ignored
Access log retention
0 days (not kept)
Identity on file
Email address only
Outside the EU, and outside direct US process
Foreign requests have to run through Moldovan process
Popular for privacy-critical infrastructure
Pricing

Moldova VPS plans

Prices below already include the Moldova index of ×1.10. What you see is what the invoice says.

Build a custom size

Nano

A real KVM box for the price of a coffee.

$3.19/mo
1 vCPU · 1 GB RAM · 25 GB
vCPU1 core
Memory1 GB DDR4 ECC
Storage25 GB NVMe
Transfer2 TB / mo
IPv4 / IPv61 / /64
  • VPN endpoint
  • Tor relay
  • DNS resolver
  • Uptime monitor
Configure Nano

Micro

The smallest box that comfortably runs a real site.

$5.39/mo
2 vCPU · 2 GB RAM · 50 GB
vCPU2 cores
Memory2 GB DDR4 ECC
Storage50 GB NVMe
Transfer4 TB / mo
IPv4 / IPv61 / /64
  • WordPress
  • Small API
  • Mail server
  • Git host
Configure Micro
Most deployed

Standard

Our most-deployed configuration, by a wide margin.

$9.79/mo
3 vCPU · 4 GB RAM · 90 GB
vCPU3 cores
Memory4 GB DDR4 ECC
Storage90 GB NVMe
Transfer6 TB / mo
IPv4 / IPv61 / /64
  • Docker stack
  • Nextcloud
  • Game server
  • Staging environment
Configure Standard
Best value

Pro

Headroom for production traffic and a database on the same box.

$18.59/mo
4 vCPU · 8 GB RAM · 180 GB
vCPU4 cores
Memory8 GB DDR4 ECC
Storage180 GB NVMe
Transfer10 TB / mo
IPv4 / IPv61 / /64
  • Production web app
  • PostgreSQL
  • CI runner
  • Matrix homeserver
Configure Pro

Elite

Serious compute without moving to bare metal.

$35.09/mo
6 vCPU · 16 GB RAM · 360 GB
vCPU6 cores
Memory16 GB DDR4 ECC
Storage360 GB NVMe
Transfer20 TB / mo
IPv4 / IPv61 / /64
  • Kubernetes node
  • Elasticsearch
  • Video transcoding
  • Multi-tenant SaaS
Configure Elite

Titan

Bare-metal performance, virtual-machine flexibility.

$64.79/mo
8 vCPU · 32 GB RAM · 720 GB
vCPU8 cores
Memory32 GB DDR4 ECC
Storage720 GB NVMe
Transfer30 TB / mo
IPv4 / IPv62 / /64
  • Database cluster
  • Nested virtualisation
  • Large game cluster
  • Analytics
Configure Titan
Questions

Moldova VPS FAQ

How much does a VPS in Moldova cost?

A Chișinău VPS starts at $3.19 per month for 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 25 GB NVMe and 2 TB of transfer. The Standard configuration — 3 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 90 GB NVMe — is $9.79 per month. Moldova carries a price index of ×1.10 against our Amsterdam baseline, reflecting real differences in transit and facility cost.

A rights holder who has already been turned away by three other hosts emails us about your Chișinău server. What happens?

Most people arrive holding one of two pictures: either we quietly comply, or we make some kind of stand. It is neither.

That letter is an instrument of United States law, and Moldova is not the United States, so nothing local turns it into an order. We date it, we file it, we send you a copy, and your server carries on. No suspension, no removal, no null-route, and no request that you justify yourself to us.

What would change the outcome is an order from a Moldovan court, or in a criminal matter a mutual-assistance request under the Budapest Convention. That route stays open and we honour it. It simply costs them counsel in Chișinău rather than a mail merge, which is the whole of what you are buying.

Two things it does not buy. Copyright exists in Moldova exactly as it does anywhere else, so this is a statement about who has to prove what, not about what is permitted. And our acceptable use policy runs here as it runs everywhere; nothing on it is a copyright question.

Do I need ID to buy a VPS in Moldova?

No. NimbusVPS applies the same policy in every location: no identity document, no phone number, no proof of address and no payment card. An email address and a cryptocurrency payment are all that is required, and Moldova imposes no additional customer-identification obligation on hosting providers.

What is the latency to Chișinău?

Typical round-trip times from Bucharest 11 ms, Frankfurt 38 ms, Kyiv 19 ms, Amsterdam 44 ms. The site runs on a 20 Gbps uplink at Trabia MD, a Tier III facility. The address printed in the latency panel above is a documentation example, not something you can ping yet; the panel says so and explains when the live target goes up.

What data retention law applies in Moldova?

Art. 7 of Law No. 20-XVI of 2009 lets a competent authority require a service provider to preserve computer and traffic data, in confidence. We do not print the period it allows, or a figure for anything the same article requires providers to retain, because we could not check either against the text of the law, and a number you cannot check is worth nothing on a page like this. The practical position does not turn on it: preservation and retention both reach only data that exists, and we write no access logs at this site or any other. Independently of local law, NimbusVPS operates 0-day access log retention — logs are not kept — and holds no identity data to retain in the first place.

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