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On a related note, is there a list of cloud providers and hosts with zero US presence? I'm looking for a European provider of virtual machines, with competitiv
by buro9 14y ago
On a related note, is there a list of cloud providers and hosts with zero US presence?
I'm looking for a European provider of virtual machines, with competitive prices and features, but with no US company behind it and ideally not even a US datacenter. Just a strong IaaS offering within the EU and a commitment to stay out of the US.
- LoneWolf 14y agoThe only one that comes to mind is Hetzner.de as far as I know they don't have any US datacenter.
- larrydavid 14y agoTake a look LowEndBox, and the related forums LowEndTalk. The first site collates prices/deals, where you can filter by location. They also carry out a quarterly survey as an attempt to gauge customer satisfaction for each provider (http://www.lowendtalk.com/wiki/top-providers http://www.lowendtalk.com/wiki/top-providers). I've been looking for a VPS recently and found the above 2 sites very useful. http://www.lowendbox.com/ http://www.lowendbox.com/ http://www.lowendtalk.com/ http://www.lowendtalk.com/
- gboudrias 14y agoThat site (LowEndBox) is full of sketchy deals, and a lot of companies it promotes stop existing a few months afterwards. It shouldn't surprise anyone that choosing their VPS provider by price alone can be a bad idea, but I really don't recommend it.
- avenger123 14y agoYes and No. You have to look at the companies with a critical eye but there are well established ones. Buyvm.net is a no fuss provider and they have been around for a while.
- corry 14y agoOVH.fr - great machines, good prices. We have a machine in western Europe. VPS or dedicated servers.
- SG- 14y agoOVH also has a datacenter in Montreal.
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- avenger123 14y agoTry http://www.prometeus.net/ http://www.prometeus.net/ They are very highly regarded and are an European provider. They may not be the cheapest but are reasonable.
- psionski 14y agoTake care, some European countries are very pro-American and will cooperate without even thinking about it. At least Germany and Bulgaria would most probably hand over all requested data, so West-East Europe doesn't really make a difference here. So far the Russians have been pretty cool - when America told them to shut down their mp3 search engines, their reply was something along the lines of "go fk yourself". I assume they have this saved as a template.
- mhw 14y agohttp://brightbox.com/ http://brightbox.com/ is UK based and privately owned. I don't think they've said anything about plans to expand into the US or otherwise.
- buro9 14y agoThey look really good except for their AUP which appears to be massively over-reaching and incompatible with any product or service that has user generated content. I've dropped them an email asking about those things, as they do appear to be good.