Self-hosted VPN server in Iceland

Run your own WireGuard or OpenVPN egress on hardware you control — no shared concentrators, no third-party logs, no lifetime-deal asterisks.

Iceland: Foreign DMCA notices have no statutory effect. Court orders require Icelandic-court jurisdiction.

See plans from $16.99/mo About Iceland

No KYC DMCA ignored Crypto only 60-second deploy

1 Tbps

DDoS absorption

41s

Median deploy

Reykjavík (IS-RKV)

Datacenter

$16.99

Entry plan / month

Why Iceland

The Iceland case for Self-hosted VPN server

Iceland sits outside the EU and outside the major MLAT (mutual legal assistance treaty) frameworks that bind most western data centres. The Icelandic Modern Media Initiative (IMMI), passed unanimously in 2010, codifies source protection and a strong free-speech posture into law. Power is geothermal-baseload; cooling is free-air for most of the year. Network reach to Western Europe is excellent (FARICE, DANICE, IRIS submarine cables); to North America via the GreenLand Connect.

WireGuard, OpenVPN, Shadowsocks, Outline and Tailscale exit nodes are all permitted, with raw socket access on every plan and IPv6 announced by default. Because we publish the AS-path, your VPN egress IP isn't a known commercial-VPN range — apps that block major VPN providers won't auto-flag you.

Workload alignment

What Self-hosted VPN server gets from Iceland

Full root, kernel modules permitted, raw sockets allowed. Required for WireGuard tun/udp.

IPv4 + /64 IPv6, BGP announcements on dedicated tiers if you bring your own range.

Egress IPs not part of any commercial VPN range — fewer apps auto-flag the traffic.

AES-NI on every CPU tier. WireGuard saturates 1 Gbps on a single core on Starter.

No traffic mirroring, no netflow retention beyond 24 hours. Documented on /privacy/.

Plans

Self-hosted VPN server — Iceland plans

Plans below ship from Iceland (Reykjavík (IS-RKV)) by default. Pick the cheapest that matches your projected load — hot-resize is live.

VPS

Starter

AMD EPYC 7443P · Reykjavík (IS-RKV)

2 vCPU
4 GB DDR4 ECC
60 GB NVMe
1 Gbps unmetered

$16.99/mo

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VPS

Growth

AMD EPYC 7443P · Reykjavík (IS-RKV)

4 vCPU
8 GB DDR4 ECC
120 GB NVMe
2.5 Gbps unmetered

$26.99/mo

Deploy in Iceland

VPS

Business

Intel Xeon Gold 6430 · Reykjavík (IS-RKV)

6 vCPU
16 GB DDR5 ECC
240 GB NVMe
5 Gbps unmetered

$39.99/mo

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Sysadmin FAQ

Self-hosted VPN server in Iceland — questions answered

WireGuard or OpenVPN — does it matter which I run?

WireGuard is faster (kernel module on Linux 5.6+, hard to beat for raw throughput) and uses less CPU. OpenVPN is more permissive about NAT traversal and has older client support. Both work fine; we don't restrict either.

Will major sites detect this as a VPN and challenge me?

Less than commercial VPN ranges, but it isn't magic. Cloudflare and others increasingly fingerprint based on TCP/IP characteristics, not just IP reputation. If you're hitting CAPTCHAs everywhere on a particular IP, we re-IP you to a fresh /29 within the same prefix free of charge.

How many peers can a vps-growth handle?

Empirically 50–80 active WireGuard peers with light traffic, or 30–40 with sustained 5 Mbps each. Memory is the gating factor at scale, not CPU; WireGuard is cheap. If you outgrow it, vps-business at 16 GB DDR5 takes you to ~250 peers.

Can I announce my own /29 or /48 over BGP?

Yes — on dedicated tiers (ded-bastion and up). VPS plans share our prefixes. You bring an LOA and the IRR records; we provision the session within a day.

What logs do you keep on the host?

Billing records, panel actions (provisioning, reboots), and 24-hour ARP/MAC tables. No netflow, no NIC mirrors, no traffic captures of any kind. Full text is in /privacy/.

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