2014 Constitutional Court ruling
Decision No. 440/2014 struck down Law 82/2012 implementing EU Directive 2006/24/EC. No statutory obligation to retain traffic metadata in bulk.
Bucharest gives you dense Eastern-European backbone peering, the lowest price-per-gigabyte in our fleet, and a jurisdiction that has consistently refused to enforce US take-down notices.
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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.
2N power redundancy + diesel genset with 48-hour fuel capacity.
Carrier-diverse Tier-1 transit + BIX and RONIX peering for Balkan + EE reach.
Eastern-European fibre costs + dense local peering make this our cheapest egress PoP.
Constitutional Court invalidated blanket data-retention; no bulk logging mandate.
How your packets actually get in and out of Bucharest — 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.
AS174AS3257AS3356Balkan IXRomaniaMeasured round-trip times from our RO-BUH edge to key European and North-American locations.
The specific statutes, court rulings and international positions that make Romania meaningful as a hosting jurisdiction — not just a marketing checkbox.
Romania's Constitutional Court struck down the Dutch equivalent of the EU data-retention directive in 2014. Local courts have a track record of not enforcing unilateral US take-down notices (DMCA has no legal force under Romanian civil procedure), and the 1991 constitution gives robust press-freedom protections. It's also, simply, the cheapest good-quality bandwidth on the continent.
Decision No. 440/2014 struck down Law 82/2012 implementing EU Directive 2006/24/EC. No statutory obligation to retain traffic metadata in bulk.
US DMCA has no extraterritorial force under Romanian civil procedure. Copyright takedowns require a Romanian court order; we reply with the canary timestamp.
Not a Five/Nine/Fourteen-Eyes member. No bulk-collection sharing treaty with US or UK intelligence services.
Article 30 of the 1991 Constitution explicitly bans press censorship. Journalism shield laws are stronger than the EU average.
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 RO-BUH. Select this location at the plan's checkout.
If Romania isn't the right fit, here's the rest of our fleet.
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