(We're not YC funded, but we did get into Startup Chile. Just wanted to share some options for people.) Here's the choices our startup has made: EMAIL: After

(We're not YC funded, but we did get into Startup Chile. Just wanted to share some options for people.) Here's the choices our startup has made: EMAIL: After much investigation, we decided to host our email in Iceland. This is due to the strong privacy laws in Iceland, and wanting a hosted solution outside the USA (and which had technical support, unlike google) We chose: http://1984hosting.com/ http://1984hosting.com/ Pretty happy with them, though occasionally their site will give us a response in icelandic when trying to admin stuff, keeps things exciting! (they're helpful though and do support via email in english.) HOSTING: We're planning to go fully dedicated with Hetzner: http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-produktmatrix-special http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-pr... Since our product will require a fair number of nodes and significant processing, the price and performance advantage of Hetzner vs. something like Amazon is very dramatic. (I haven't used Hetzner yet, but from my investigations they get positive remarks) DOMAINS: For years all of our domains have been handled thru Moniker. If you're going to go with a US registrar, don't use Go Daddy or any other consumer registrar. Moniker is set up for domain portfolios and they have very strong security policies and no BS. I'd prefer to have this part of our business be offshore, however, given the propensity in recent years for US judges to rule domains be handed over without just cause. However, I've not found a good international Registrar.