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> Ghost's founder, John O'Nolan, wrote in a blog post: "we’ve elected to move the default location for all customer data from the UK to DigitalOcean’s [Amsterdam] data centre. The Netherlands is ranked #2 in the world for Freedom of Press, and has a long history of liberal institutions, laws and funds designed to support and defend independent journalism."

But DigitalOcean is a US company... why not choose a local Dutch provider?

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DigitalOcean has an established API, pricing model, and name recognition.

Foreign subsidiaries of US companies are much less vulnerable to subpoena than domestic subsidiaries.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/12/faulty-logic-heart-mic...

Just because they're less vulnerable doesn't mean they're less willing to fulfill overly broad requests or requests without merit. Do they have an open stance on user protection?

Why go to the Netherlands in the first place. We're the #1 in the world for wiretapping our own citizens.

(Except of course when those wiretaps involve prominent members of the government talking to fellow politicians suspected of corruption, then those wiretaps magically fail...)

If you move your operation to the Netherlands to avoid government snooping, you're going to have a bad time.

So what's the good choice then?

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