Article 73 of the Constitution
Guarantees freedom of expression; any pre-publication censorship is explicitly forbidden. This applies to online content at the server level, not just to print.
Our Reykjavik facility sits in an EU-adjacent but non-member jurisdiction, runs on 100 % geothermal and hydroelectric power, and benefits from the strongest free-speech framework in Europe.
IS-RKV
The four numbers that actually matter when picking a datacenter: how redundant is the facility, how thick are the pipes, where does the power come from, and what legal framework protects what you host.
Concurrently maintainable with full redundancy on every critical path (N+1).
Aggregated carrier-diverse Tier-1 transit + direct FICIX peering.
Grid mix is 70 % hydroelectric + 30 % geothermal. Zero diesel for baseline.
Icelandic Constitution protects expression; IMMI (2010) codifies source shielding.
How your packets actually get in and out of Reykjavik — the carriers that carry transit, the IXs that carry peering, and the round-trip time to the rest of the world.
Carrier-diverse Tier-1 transit aggregated with direct peering at the relevant Internet Exchange.
AS2603AS3257AS3356Finland + Nordicvia transitMeasured round-trip times from our IS-RKV edge to key European and North-American locations.
The specific statutes, court rulings and international positions that make Iceland meaningful as a hosting jurisdiction — not just a marketing checkbox.
Iceland is not a member of the European Union, NATO, or any of the Five/Nine/Fourteen-Eyes signals-intelligence arrangements. Combined with its constitutional and statutory protections for speech and journalism, it is one of the strongest jurisdictions in Europe for hosting content that would be politically difficult elsewhere.
Guarantees freedom of expression; any pre-publication censorship is explicitly forbidden. This applies to online content at the server level, not just to print.
The Icelandic Modern Media Initiative codifies source-protection for journalists, whistle-blower safe-haven, and limits on injunctions. Not yet a full statute, but politically binding and respected by Icelandic courts.
Not a Five/Nine/Fourteen-Eyes member. No bulk-collection treaty with the US, UK, or EU intelligence apparatus.
There is no equivalent of the old EU data-retention directive in Icelandic law — we are not obliged to log, store or hand over traffic metadata in bulk.
Cooling, power, physical access, fire suppression — the parts that don't show up on a marketing page but determine whether your server comes back after a local incident.
Both product lines run in IS-RKV. Select this location at the plan's checkout.
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