A statement from the editors
OffshorePress is a small operator of offshore hosting for people whose published work is inconvenient to someone in power. We operate the hosting layer; you operate the publication. We chose Iceland and Switzerland because their courts ask careful questions before they compel a host to act, and we settle every order in cryptocurrency — Monero, Bitcoin over Lightning, plain Bitcoin, and others — because a payment record should not be a dossier.
No KYC at any step of the order. No DMCA forwarding — foreign takedown notices have no procedural standing in the operating jurisdictions. No fiat trail — the operator never holds a card, never sees a bank wire.
The framing throughout these pages is editorial, not commercial. You will not find feature grids, growth language, or a coloured button shouting at the centre of the page. You will find a manifesto, a list of the jurisdictions we operate from, and the prose required to make an informed decision under adversarial conditions.
A reading of the forensic surface of email — what the mailhost operator sees mechanically, what the operator does not, what TLS-in-transit and PGP narrow down — with notes on Swiss and Icelandic…
Jurisdictional drift
Legal developments that shifted civil-liberties hosting assumptions in Iceland and Switzerland over 2024-2026 — the Swiss revFADP entry into force, the BÜPF revision question, the EU e-Evidence…
Leak aggregators
A reading of the four-layer architecture of a working leak-aggregator — submission system, processing workstation, archive store, published surface — with notes on which tools fit which layer and…
Why we host what we host, and what we will not host. The principles page is the editorial spine of the operation: a manifesto, an explanation of the threat model we work to, and a disclosure of the legal entity that signs the lease on the cabinet. Read it before you buy a service from us.
We operate from Iceland and Switzerland, and only from those two countries. Both jurisdictions have a press tradition that predates the cloud and a court culture that asks careful questions before it compels a host to act. The briefing pages cover the law, the carriers, and what we will and will not do when we receive a notice.
Field notes from the operation: dispatches on the law as it shifts, guidance for journalists publishing under threat, and our reading of the rulings we think you should know about. The journal is written for the same audience that subscribes to the hosting service — a practitioner, not a procurement officer.
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The hosting layer comes in four tiers of virtual private server, plus dedicated machines and an email service. The list below is the entry ladder; the longer description of each is on its own page.
| Plan | Specification | Juris | Monthly |
|---|---|---|---|
| VPS-1 | 1 vCPU (AMD EPYC) · 2 GB DDR4 ECC · 25 GB NVMe SSD | ISL · CHE | $8/mo |
| VPS-2 | 2 vCPU (AMD EPYC) · 4 GB DDR4 ECC · 60 GB NVMe SSD | ISL · CHE | $16/mo |
| VPS-4 | 4 vCPU (AMD EPYC) · 8 GB DDR4 ECC · 120 GB NVMe SSD | ISL · CHE | $32/mo |
| VPS-8 | 8 vCPU (AMD EPYC) · 16 GB DDR4 ECC · 240 GB NVMe SSD | ISL · CHE | $64/mo |