NordBastion vs NiceVPS.
Caribbean offshore, or four Nordic shields.

NiceVPS is a privacy-focused offshore VPS provider operating primarily from Dominica in the Caribbean. They ship VPS with KVM-dedicated resources, free anti-DDoS, full-disk-encryption support and free Tor hosting, run their own private hardware (no upstream reseller), and accept Bitcoin, Monero, Dash and Zcash plus other cryptocurrencies. They also offer anonymous domain registration and a zero-logs VPN as separate products.

No. NiceVPS's entry VPS is €9.99/month. NordBastion's entry Sentinel is $5.90/month with 2 vCPU and 4 GB of RAM. The price-per-spec advantage sits with NordBastion at the entry tier.

Different. Dominica's jurisdictional pitch rests on being outside the EU and outside the major five-eyes/fourteen-eyes intelligence-sharing arrangements; the legal regime is permissive for content that would be challenged in some EU jurisdictions. The Nordic pitch rests on constitutional press-freedom guarantees written into statute and a tradition of strong rule-of-law and source-protection enforcement. Either is defensible; they suit different threat models. Customers worried about EU-coordinated takedowns lean Caribbean; customers worried about content arbitrariness and legal predictability lean Nordic.

NiceVPS — they sell VPS, anonymous-domain registration, a zero-logs VPN, Tor hosting and full-disk-encryption-ready images as a package, marketed as a privacy-stack. NordBastion focuses on VPS and dedicated servers as the product, with PGP correspondence and a panel-based account model around it. We do not currently sell a domain-registration or VPN bundle.

NordBastion accepts twelve cryptocurrencies. NiceVPS accepts Bitcoin, Monero, Dash, Zcash and others — a smaller curated set.

NiceVPS state the hardware is privately owned (not resold from an upstream cloud) and runs from Dominica. NordBastion runs four Nordic bastions on owned hardware in Sweden, Finland, Norway and Iceland — owned on every site, no exceptions.

NordBastion does, prominently — five tiers from $99/month to $1,099/month, fully automated. NiceVPS focuses on VPS and the bundled privacy products; dedicated bare-metal is not their headline offer.

Pick NiceVPS if your priority is a Caribbean offshore jurisdiction outside EU intelligence-sharing arrangements, an all-in-one privacy bundle (VPS + VPN + domain + FDE + Tor hosting), or content that needs the permissive Dominican legal regime. Pick NordBastion if your priority is constitutional press-freedom law on every server, sharper economics, four Nordic locations to choose between, and dedicated bare-metal as a real product.