Is a Netherlands VPS considered offshore?

What does "offshore" mean for a VPS in the Netherlands?

An offshore VPS is a virtual server rented from a company or datacenter outside your own country, chosen for its laws on privacy and takedowns. By that definition, a VPS in Amsterdam is offshore for a customer in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany or anywhere else. For a Dutch resident, it is a local server.

A stricter reading of offshore means outside the EU. On that reading the Netherlands does not qualify: it is a founding EU member. In Europe, our two locations outside the EU are covered in is Iceland good for an offshore VPS and is Switzerland good for an offshore VPS.

At OffshoreKVM, the company is offshore as well. OffshoreKVM is run by DomaineGoat LLC, a company registered in Panama, and answers only to Panamanian law. The datacenter that houses each VPS is in its own country and follows that country’s law. An Amsterdam VPS from us pairs a Dutch datacenter with a Panamanian operator.

How many offshore hosts offer a VPS in the Netherlands?

The Netherlands is the most common offshore VPS location: 26 of the 36 active hosts in OffshoreKVM's check of 29 October 2026 offer it. The next countries are the United States (17 hosts), Germany (13) and Switzerland (12). Amsterdam alone is named by 18 hosts. Among smaller hosts with 12 countries or fewer, 20 sell the Netherlands.

Amsterdam is also a large meeting point of networks. AMS-IX, the Amsterdam Internet Exchange, listed 912 connected networks on its site on 29 October 2026.

Prices there are low. In our check, the cheapest comparable 1 vCPU / 1 GB / 20 GB plan in the Netherlands was Kyun at €3.70 ($4.12) a month. KVM 1 costs $3.08.

What laws apply to a VPS in Amsterdam?

Dutch law and EU law apply to the Amsterdam datacenter, as they apply to any server in the Netherlands. The Netherlands has been an EU member since 1958. The GDPR, the EU data protection regulation, has applied there since 25 May 2018.

On 11 March 2015, the District Court of The Hague annulled the Dutch data retention law, with immediate effect. That law had required telecom providers to store communication and location data on everyone in the Netherlands for up to a year.

OffshoreKVM is run by a Panamanian company and answers only to Panamanian law. The datacenter follows Dutch law, and we do not control its network equipment. What an operator can be made to disclose is covered in can an offshore hosting provider be forced to hand over my data.

How does OffshoreKVM handle complaints about a Dutch VPS?

OffshoreKVM ignores DMCA notices for every VPS, the Amsterdam ones included. DMCA and foreign copyright notices are ignored; only Panamanian law and Panamanian court orders apply. Spam, phishing, malware, botnet control, attacks and child sexual abuse material are not allowed and lead to suspension.

• Logs: No logs: we keep no connection logs, no traffic logs and no IP addresses of visitors or customers, on the website, the dashboard or the VPS.
• Tor: Tor relays are allowed, exit relays included, as well as middle relays and bridges.
• Not allowed: No spam or bulk email, no phishing, no malware or botnet control, no DDoS or other attacks, no scanning or brute-forcing of other people’s systems, no booter or stresser services, no carding or fraud, no child sexual abuse material, no cryptocurrency mining, and no service to sanctioned people or companies.

These rules come from our Panamanian operator. The server's country keeps its own law: OffshoreKVM is run by DomaineGoat LLC, a company registered in Panama, and answers only to Panamanian law. The datacenter that houses each VPS is in its own country and follows that country’s law. The full policy is in what does DMCA ignored mean for an offshore VPS.

When is another country a better choice than the Netherlands?

Pick the Netherlands for an EU server in the most common offshore location; pick Iceland or Switzerland for a server outside the EU. The price at OffshoreKVM is the same in all four.

• Reykjavik, Iceland: in the EEA, so the GDPR applies, but not an EU member. Only 7 of 36 hosts offer it.
• Zurich, Switzerland: outside both the EU and the EEA, under Swiss data protection law.
• Bucharest, Romania: another EU country, offered by 9 hosts. Read is Romania good for an offshore VPS.

The side-by-side view is in which country is best for offshore hosting.