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Ask HN: Good VPS offerings from companies outside the US?

7 pointsMrGando18 comments

I want to migrate out of Digital Ocean, I don't want my personal data under the US jurisdiction. Have nothing to hide, but that's not the point.

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We've just taken the beta wrappers off http://bigv.io/ after two years (we've been in business for 11). It's hosted in Manchester, UK - £10 / month for 1GB RAM, scale to 180GB, real actual humans on the phone for support, console access, choice of disc grades (SATA, SAS, SSD), command line interface... OK I'll stop selling. It's really very good though.

Though http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/aug/02/gchq-accused-... suggests you're not a million miles away from the NSA's taps in the UK!

You can always ask us if we have government spies in our network. If I seem to want to talk about the weather instead, it's a reasonable bet that we do :) But not yet...

Ehh, did you just reply to yourself? :-)

A bit. It was more of a postscript.

Are OVH and Hetzner the top contenders here? I have things split across DigitalOcean and Linode and am about to drop both - thinking a non-VPS provider is actually the better route as I'm willing to pay if I have my own server. Any good hosts in Switzerland? That's likely the best country to host in at this point, or one of...

I highly recommend metanet for Swiss hosting.

Hetzner: http://www.hetzner.de/en/

Why, because you think that foreign governments are going to respect your privacy more?

Ha.

Well, actually - yes; depending on the country. But that's not the point. The point is that your own country has to go through more convoluted international channels to get your data.

I agree. And I would also prefer my data to fall in the hands of a random government with less resources than the US government.

Or maybe US is a foreign government for some people ?

I've been using adelinahost.com for a few months now (my vm is in Russia). So far, so good.

We have UK-based VPS packages... www.hartserver.net/servers/vps/

Why is your own web site on DigitalOcean in the Netherlands then? :)

From Germany, Hetzner is excellent.

ovh?

Hey there, what's ovh?

http://www.ovh.com/

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