Both KYC-free, both crypto-paid, both ideological about free press. One has been doing it from Iceland since 2006; the other spreads four bastions across Nordic constitutional regimes. Here is what differs, factually.
NordBastion This site |
1984 Hosting Reference |
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| KYC | None — email + password only | None — minimal account data |
| Entry VPS price | $5.90 / mo · 2 vCPU · 4 GB · 120 GB NVMe | €8.72 / mo · 1 vCPU · 1 GB · 25 GB |
| Top VPS price | $89.90 / mo · 24 vCPU · 64 GB · 1.92 TB NVMe | €139.52 / mo · 6 vCPU · 16 GB · 320 GB |
| Jurisdictions | Sweden · Finland · Norway · Iceland | Iceland only |
| Dedicated servers | $99 – $1,099 / mo · 5 tiers · ~30 min | Not the primary product line |
| Cryptocurrencies | 12 — BTC, XMR, ETH, LTC, USDT, USDC + more | BTC, XMR + a handful |
| Multi-currency display | USD-priced internally | EUR · USD · GBP · ISK · BTC · XMR |
| Green energy | Largely renewable, not certified network-wide yet | 100% renewable, publicly stated |
| Certifications | Operational compliance, no certified-audit badge | ISO 27001 |
| Deploy time | ~90 s | Minutes |
| Warrant canary | Yes — monthly, PGP-signed | Indirect — public posture |
| Operating since | 2024 | 2006 |
1984 Hosting details reflect publicly listed pricing and policies as of early 2026 and may have changed since.
Two decades of continuous operation in privacy hosting, public legal-fight history, and ISO 27001 certification. If unbroken operating time is your primary trust signal today, theirs is longer than NordBastion can yet claim — we started in 2024.
$5.90 with 2 vCPU and 4 GB undercuts the €8.72 entry on both axes. At the top tier the gap widens — 24 vCPU and 64 GB for $89.90 versus 6 vCPU and 16 GB for €139.52.
1984 Hosting is Iceland-only. NordBastion runs four Nordic bastions — Stockholm, Helsinki, Oslo and Reykjavík — and lets you pick at order time. Reykjavík is one of the four, not the only one.
1984 Hosting is a privacy-hosting institution. Twenty years of continuous operation, ISO 27001 certification, an explicit green-energy stance, a unique multi-currency price display, an actual published legal-fight track record. If you measure trust by years-in-business and certifications, theirs is the safer bet today.
NordBastion is the newer entrant. Our trust story is built on doctrine, transparency and architecture — four Nordic jurisdictions instead of one, twelve cryptocurrencies, fully-automated 30-minute dedicated bare-metal, more cores and memory per dollar at every VPS tier, and a published warrant canary on a fixed monthly cadence.
Pick 1984 Hosting if you want the safe institutional choice, multi-currency price transparency or the green-energy story. Pick NordBastion if you want jurisdictional choice between four Nordic regimes, sharper economics, and a path to dedicated bare-metal.
The questions visitors actually ask when choosing between 1984 Hosting and NordBastion.
1984 Hosting is an Icelandic privacy-hosting provider operating since 2006, named after the George Orwell novel and run with an explicit free-speech and free-press mission. They operate from Iceland, are ISO 27001 certified, run on 100 percent renewable energy, and accept payment in six currencies including Bitcoin and Monero.
No. 1984 Hosting's entry VPS is €8.72/month for 1 vCPU and 1 GB of RAM. NordBastion's entry Sentinel is $5.90/month for 2 vCPU and 4 GB. The price-per-spec gap holds at every tier.
It does. 1984 Hosting has nearly two decades of continuous operation in privacy hosting, has fought and won published legal cases (their ADL Litigations page documents one), and holds ISO 27001 certification. NordBastion was founded in 2024 and has been operational for a comparatively short time. If unbroken track record is your primary trust signal, theirs is longer than ours can yet claim.
1984 Hosting operates from Iceland only. NordBastion operates from four Nordic jurisdictions including Iceland (Reykjavík bastion). If your workload needs to live in Iceland specifically, both deliver it; if your decision involves choosing between Icelandic, Swedish, Finnish or Norwegian law server-by-server, only NordBastion supports it.
NordBastion accepts twelve cryptocurrencies. 1984 Hosting accepts Bitcoin, Monero and a small set of others, and displays prices in EUR, USD, GBP, ISK, BTC and XMR in parallel — a unique transparency move that no other privacy host in this peer group matches today.
1984 Hosting runs on 100 percent renewable energy and uses it as a public differentiator. NordBastion bastions in Iceland, Norway and Sweden draw heavily from hydro and geothermal grids, but we do not currently certify or publish a single grid-level number for the network as a whole; this will be added to the transparency report.
NordBastion does — five dedicated tiers from $99/month to $1,099/month, fully automated and provisioned in about 30 minutes. 1984 Hosting focuses on VPS and shared/managed hosting; bare-metal dedicated is not their main product line.
Pick 1984 Hosting if your priority is a continuously-operating Icelandic specialist with two decades of track record, ISO 27001 certification, a multi-currency price display and an explicit free-press editorial mission. Pick NordBastion if you want choice between four Nordic legal regimes, better economics at every tier and a path to fully-automated dedicated bare-metal.
Each link is a direct head-to-head page, written under the same editorial rules — facts only, equal airtime, dated.
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