Can anyone recommend a linux VPS host outside the US as an alternative to Linode or Digitalocean?
European companies will be pleasantly surprised that the prices listed include VAT - which means that if you provide your company's VAT number on sign-up, you won't have to pay VAT. So a €7.90 VPS will cost a European company €6.64 (roughly equivalent to $8.86).
EDIT: as other people pointed out elsewhere, the UK may not be that much better (if at all better) than the US. The question is, though, where is safer?
I think the Swiss market has ample room for more competition.
Look out for the prices, though: the discount showed is not permanent, just a first month promotion.