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Locations<\/span><\/p>\n

Why Amsterdam keeps coming up<\/h2>\n

Amsterdam has been a European internet crossroads since the 1990s, and AMS-IX is still one of the largest exchange points anywhere. A very large number of networks peer directly there, which means traffic leaving Amsterdam usually takes fewer hops to reach the rest of Europe, and routing onward to North America and Asia is unusually good too.<\/p>\n

Add Dutch law, which handles hosting complaints through a defined process rather than on receipt of an angry email, and you have the reason most European offshore hosting ends up in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n

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Network<\/strong>AMS-IX, excellent onward routing.<\/span><\/div>\n
Law<\/strong>EU, GDPR, process driven takedowns.<\/span><\/div>\n
Best for<\/strong>User content, European audiences.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
On this page<\/strong>The network case<\/a>The legal case<\/a>Who it suits<\/a>What latency to expect<\/a>What to insist on<\/a>FAQ<\/a><\/div>\n

The network case<\/h2>\n

Peering is the thing people underrate. When two networks peer directly, traffic between them does not have to travel through a third party’s transit, which means fewer hops, lower latency and fewer places for something to go wrong.<\/p>\n

AMS-IX has hundreds of connected networks. Practically, a server in Amsterdam has short, direct paths to most European ISPs, and good onward routes to the UK, the US east coast and beyond. You do not have to do anything to benefit from this; it comes with the location.<\/p>\n

The other consequence is redundancy. A city with that much interconnection has many possible routes, so a single upstream problem is much less likely to make your server unreachable.<\/p>\n

The legal case<\/h2>\n

Two things matter here and they are separate.<\/p>\n

Data protection.<\/strong> The Netherlands is in the EU and GDPR applies. If your clients ask where their data lives, an EU answer is the easy one to give, and you can write it in a privacy policy without qualification.<\/p>\n

How complaints are handled.<\/strong> This is the one that decides whether offshore hosting was worth it. The Netherlands operates a notice and takedown framework that most serious hosts follow. It is a process: a properly formed legal notice gets acted on, and an unsupported complaint does not automatically take your site offline while somebody investigates.<\/p>\n

For a business brochure site this never comes up. For a forum, a review site, a news site, or anything where visitors post content, it is the entire reason to be here. One bad-faith complaint should not cost you a week of downtime.<\/p>\n

Dutch content tolerance is also broader than Germany’s for categories that are legal but that mainstream hosts refuse. Our Netherlands versus Germany comparison<\/a> covers where the two differ.<\/p>\n

Who it suits<\/h2>\n