VPS hosting in Panama
Panama protects private correspondence at constitutional level and makes foreign demands travel through its own courts. Read the legal note before you buy it as a US firewall — there is a treaty channel, and we would rather you knew that from us.
Facility
- Datacenter
- Panama Digital Gateway
- Tier
- Tier III
- City
- Panama City
- Country code
- PA
- Uplink capacity
- 20 Gbps
- DDoS scrubbing
- 0.8 Tbps
- Price index
- ×1.35
Against the rest of the fleet: 5 of 8 on uplink, 7 of 8 on scrubbing capacity, 7 of 8 on price index where 1 is the cheapest. Ties share a position. The comparison table has the full column.
Latency
- from Miami
- 42 ms
- from Bogotá
- 28 ms
- from New York
- 71 ms
- from São Paulo
- 118 ms
ping 198.51.100.60Example 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
Correcting something this site used to say: a criminal request from the United States has a treaty route into Panama, and has had one for three decades. The mutual assistance treaty was signed on 11 April 1991 and entered into force on 6 September 1995, so US authorities are not shut out here. What Panama changes is the shape of that route. Art. 29 of the Constitution makes private correspondence inviolable, and a foreign demand does nothing on its own until Panamanian authorities and courts act on it under Panamanian law. So a subpoena that arrives in an inbox gets you nowhere, and for most people that difference is exactly what the price index buys. A US prosecutor prepared to open a treaty file has a route, that route works, and we would rather you chose Panama knowing it than discovered it afterwards.
- Jurisdiction
- Panama — constitutional protection of private correspondence
- DMCA handling
- ignored
- Access log retention
- 0 days (not kept)
- Identity on file
- Email address only
Panama VPS plans
Prices below already include the Panama index of ×1.35. What you see is what the invoice says.
Nano
A real KVM box for the price of a coffee.
- VPN endpoint
- Tor relay
- DNS resolver
- Uptime monitor
Micro
The smallest box that comfortably runs a real site.
- WordPress
- Small API
- Mail server
- Git host
Standard
Our most-deployed configuration, by a wide margin.
- Docker stack
- Nextcloud
- Game server
- Staging environment
Pro
Headroom for production traffic and a database on the same box.
- Production web app
- PostgreSQL
- CI runner
- Matrix homeserver
Elite
Serious compute without moving to bare metal.
- Kubernetes node
- Elasticsearch
- Video transcoding
- Multi-tenant SaaS
Titan
Bare-metal performance, virtual-machine flexibility.
- Database cluster
- Nested virtualisation
- Large game cluster
- Analytics
Panama VPS FAQ
How much does a VPS in Panama cost?
A Panama City VPS starts at $3.92 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 $12.02 per month. Panama carries a price index of ×1.35 against our Amsterdam baseline, reflecting real differences in transit and facility cost.
A US studio's outside counsel emails us about your Panama City 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 Panama 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 Panamanian court, or in a criminal matter a request under the 1995 treaty with the United States. That route stays open and we honour it. It simply costs them counsel in Panama City rather than a mail merge, which is the whole of what you are buying.
Two things it does not buy. Copyright exists in Panama 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 Panama?
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 Panama imposes no additional customer-identification obligation on hosting providers.
What is the latency to Panama City?
Typical round-trip times from Miami 42 ms, Bogotá 28 ms, New York 71 ms, São Paulo 118 ms. The site runs on a 20 Gbps uplink at Panama Digital Gateway, 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 Panama?
We are not going to summarise a Panamanian retention statute for you, because we could not point you at one that clearly covers a VPS host, and a confident-sounding paragraph would just be us guessing on your behalf. What we can state and stand behind is our own configuration: access logs are retained for 0 days at this site as at every 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.
Other jurisdictions
Same hardware and the same identity policy everywhere. Only the law and the latency change.
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