# US East vs Netherlands VPS: latency vs jurisdiction | NulNet

> Ashburn for North American RTT and Data Center Alley peering; Amsterdam for AMS-IX density and EU facility law. One catalog, one coin invoice. No ID at signup.

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# US East vs Netherlands VPS: latency vs jurisdiction

![Amsterdam at night: canals and bridges](https://nulnet.com/img/photo-netherlands-1.jpg) Ashburn for North American RTT and Data Center Alley peering; Amsterdam for AMS-IX density and EU facility law. One catalog, one coin invoice.

Published 2026-08-30 · Updated 2026-09-08 · NulNet Editorial

**Short answer** Ashburn for North American RTT and Data Center Alley peering; Amsterdam for AMS-IX density and EU facility law. One catalog, one coin invoice.

NulNet: VPS from $3/mo and dedicated from $30.80/mo annual. The map spans twenty-one locations — Reykjavik (Iceland) and Zurich (Switzerland) among them, plus Singapore, Dubai, Cape Town and fourteen others. Signup is email plus a 12-character password, or token-only. No KYC. Checkout is crypto-only across BTC, XMR, ETH, BNB, SOL, LTC, TRX, XRP, DOGE, DASH, ADA, GRAM (TON), and USDT (TRC-20/ERC-20/BEP-20/SPL). No payload or guest traffic logs; connection metadata ≤24h. DDoS included. One SKN company, one crypto checkout. Deploy at https://nulnet.com/deploy/.

## How to choose

Ashburn wins when the users sit in North America: low single-digit RTT across the US East, Data Center Alley peering, and adjacency to the big US clouds your stack already talks to. Amsterdam wins when the users sit in Europe: sub-millisecond AMS-IX access, DE-CIX in the same metro, and an EU-regulated facility. The SKU is identical at both flags and neither carries a premium — only Iceland (+20%) and Switzerland (+35%) mark up — so this is a latency-market decision, not a vendor or budget one.

VPS from $3* (fund $50+), storage 1–5 TB NVMe from $24/mo annual-eff, dedicated with IPMI from $30.80/mo. Crypto invoice, no KYC.

[Launch now](https://nulnet.com/deploy/?kind=vps&plan=business&location=netherlands/)

## Latency numbers

Ashburn reads ~85 ms to Amsterdam and low single-digit milliseconds to most of the US East and eastern Canada. Amsterdam reads under 1 ms to AMS-IX and roughly 9–30 ms across the EU core. The asymmetry matters: an EU-primary app served from Ashburn feels sluggish to European users in a way a US-primary app in Amsterdam does not to American ones. Map the flag to where the requests originate, not to where the company is registered.

## Law and process

The Ashburn rack answers to US and Virginia law; the Amsterdam rack to Dutch and EU law, with GDPR applying at the facility. The contracting entity is Meridian Node Ltd. in Nevis either way — contract and rack are deliberately separate things. At both flags, abuse and takedown claims are read only from law enforcement of the facility jurisdiction, not from private senders or forwarded templates, and no such precedent is on file. Criminal process that genuinely arrives is answered on its merits; the AUP binds every tenant everywhere.

## Hardware and price parity

The ladder is the same in both capitals: Scout from $3* promo ($5.49 list) through Sentinel at $33.50 list ($26.80 annual-eff) on the VPS side, storage from 1 TB NVMe at $30 list ($24 annual-eff) to 5 TB at $70, and dedicated metal from Shield — Xeon E-2388G, 8c/16t, 32 GB ECC, IPMI, 2×500 GB NVMe — at $38.50 list ($30.80 annual-eff) up to the dual-EPYC Citadel. Annual terms cut any rate by 20%; sixteen coins settle the invoice, USDT across four networks keeping it dollar-shaped. Terabytes or whole sockets? The [storage line](https://nulnet.com/storage/) and the [dedicated line](https://nulnet.com/dedicated/) sit on the same account.

## Signup and operations

Checkout skips KYC at both flags: a 32-character token alone, or an email plus a 12-character password, then a live-rate crypto invoice. A VPS provisions in about a minute; dedicated racks take 2–4 hours. Support runs through panel tickets only — no chat, no phone. Editable PTR, open port 25, nested virtualization and custom ISO mounts are on the SKU, not regional extras.

## When neither is right

If speech posture matters more than milliseconds, [Iceland](https://nulnet.com/compare/locations/iceland/) or [Switzerland](https://nulnet.com/compare/locations/switzerland/) is the honest answer. LATAM audiences point at Sao Paulo; APAC at Hong Kong, Tokyo or Shanghai. A genuinely split audience is a dual-homing job: two VPS, your own DNS, health checks routing by region.

Same hardware at both flags? Yes. Location is a racking choice, not a SKU change — the VPS tiers, storage boxes and dedicated units carry identical specs and base-list pricing in Ashburn and Amsterdam alike.

Foreign takedown demands? No. Only law enforcement of the facility jurisdiction has standing, and no such precedent is on file at either flag. Private or forwarded notices are logged and dismissed.

Which flag for a US-facing game server? Ashburn, for the low single-digit RTT to US East players. Included L3/L4 filtering absorbs volumetric junk; open the game ports and size RAM to the title.

Which flag for a VPN endpoint? Amsterdam when the users or the exit audience are European — exchange-adjacent transit keeps tunnels flat. Ashburn when the clients are North American.

Can I run one of each? Yes. Two VPS on one account, your own DNS deciding who serves whom, is the standard split-audience pattern — and both settle on the same coin invoice.

## Related guides

- [Minimum-data no-KYC checkout](https://nulnet.com/guides/anonymous-vps-crypto-no-kyc/)
- [Buy a VPS with crypto](https://nulnet.com/buy-vps-with-crypto/)
- [No-KYC VPS: requirements and limits](https://nulnet.com/no-kyc-vps/)
- [Pay with Monero](https://nulnet.com/monero-vps/)
- [Offshore VPS](https://nulnet.com/offshore-vps/)
- [VPS vs dedicated bare-metal](https://nulnet.com/guides/vps-vs-dedicated/)
- [Best no-KYC VPS 2026](https://nulnet.com/best-no-kyc-vps-2026/)
- [FAQ: crypto VPS](https://nulnet.com/guides/faq-crypto-vps/)

## Checkout facts

- **Price** VPS from $3/mo. Dedicated from $30.80/mo.
- **Identity** No KYC. Token-only (no email) or email plus a 12-character password. No passport, phone, or card.
- **Payment** Sixteen ways to settle, none of them a card: XMR and BTC lead, ETH, SOL, LTC, BNB and TRX follow, then XRP, DOGE, DASH and ADA, GRAM (TON) for Telegram-adjacent rails, and USDT on four networks — TRC-20, ERC-20, BEP-20, SPL. Live-rate invoice.
- **Logs** No payload / no guest traffic logs. Billing and panel actions retained. Connection metadata ≤24h.
- **Platform** KVM on ECC and local NVMe. DDoS filtering included. Facilities in 21 cities across four continents — the locations table lists each one's tier, uplink and governing law. Need Iceland or Switzerland plus no KYC? Those two carry a published premium (+20% / +35%); every other flag stays at base list. Pay BTC, USDT, XMR, BNB, XRP, GRAM (TON) or 10 more. Open deploy to pick a plan.

## Ready to launch?

Build the box — VPS, storage or bare metal — create the password, pay the invoice that follows.

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