A Finland VPS, KYC-free.
Under the strongest source-protection statute in the EU.

For now, yes. NordBastion operates one bastion in Finland — HEL.001 — inside a tier-III carrier-neutral facility in the Helsinki metropolitan area. Helsinki is also the densest peering point in Finland (FICIX), which is why we put the Finnish bastion there rather than Tampere or Oulu. A second Finnish site is not on the published 18-month roadmap.

Section 12 of the 2000 Constitution of Finland (Perustuslaki) entrenches freedom of expression as a fundamental right and explicitly forbids prior restraint. It is the constitutional anchor on top of which Sananvapauslaki (Act on the Exercise of Freedom of Expression in Mass Media, 460/2003) builds an absolute statutory right for publishers and journalists to refuse to disclose the identity of an anonymous source. Finnish source-protection scholarship reads that combination as the strongest journalistic shield in the European Union — and it survives translation into the crypto-paid, no-identity hosting model NordBastion runs.

The Tietosuojavaltuutettu (Data Protection Ombudsman) is consistently cited among the most assertive GDPR regulators in Europe, with a documented record of imposing fines on both public bodies and large private actors for over-collection. For a privacy-first hosting operator that posture is welcome: GDPR Article 5 minimisation and Article 17 erasure are not abstract here, they are enforced by a regulator with real teeth — a third party reinforcing the same doctrine NordBastion ships under by choice.

No. GDPR is the floor, not the ceiling, and Finnish enforcement is among the strictest in the EU. The trade-off is that Finland is inside the e-Evidence framework — see the data-retention answer below. By doctrine, NordBastion does not collect identity at signup, does not retain payment-card data, does not log application-level activity, and rotates infrastructure logs aggressively. What does not exist cannot be compelled.

Only through a Finnish court order, on a named subject, for data we actually hold — and that intersection is narrow by design. Finnish criminal procedure additionally recognises a statutory right of refusal grounded in Sananvapauslaki for material that would identify an anonymous source of a publication. Anything we do hold is published in aggregate in the monthly transparency report.

Finland's previous blanket data-retention regime for electronic communications was reshaped after the CJEU's Tele2 Sverige and La Quadrature du Net rulings; what remains is a much narrower targeted regime aimed at electronic communications service providers. As a hosting provider — not a telecom — NordBastion is not subject to bulk retention obligations under that statute. We retain only what is operationally necessary, on the schedules published in the transparency report.

The NordBastion SLA is 99.99 percent per-bastion, computed independently for each of the four locations. The Helsinki HEL.001 uptime is broken out on /status/ alongside the other three bastions. SLA credits are applied to your prepaid balance automatically — no ticket required.

Yes. Every VPS can be snapshot-redeployed to any other Nordic bastion through the panel — Helsinki to Stockholm, Stockholm to Reykjavík, anywhere. The snapshot transfer runs over the 100 Gbps private backbone, so even a Ravelin migration completes in a few minutes. You re-point DNS at the new IP; nothing else changes.