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.
Take 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.
They 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.
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.