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Re: Swiss-Based Cloud VPS – For Developers Who Care

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Post by iheartmemcache »

fla wrote: post #13
piquadrat wrote: post #2

As a Swiss citizen myself, I am not convinced that hosting in Switzerland is any better privacy-wise than e.g. in Germany. New laws like BÜPF and NDG seem to get us closer to where the EU is in terms of what the government is allowed to access, and what providers are forced to log. This talk is a good intro on what's going on in Switzerland right now https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7205-netzpolitik_in_der_schweiz#...

Internationally wise, it's not. We have a long history of doing whatever other big countries ask us to do. Especially when the request comes from the United States. (I'm Swiss as well) Switzerland has been hosting Onyx [1] for fiteen years now ;) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onyx_(interception_system) Edit: typo

Post-2008 (i.e., the final turning point re: the IRS was when the former UBS employee spilled his beans, but I'd be willing to bet Swiss cooperation post 9-11 just by some heavy-handed Homeland Security Agents in poorly tailored suits storming in discourteously) even grandfathered numbered accounts have no security in them for foreign nationals. As I understand it, if you're an MNC you transfer price and lodge your funds in the most tax-friendly domicile (Ireland) and retain those earnings without any remittance. For US nationals, the best way to engage in tax avoidance is to play a game of seashells in the Seychelles (oh god I'm sorry for the pun) with shelf-companies and auxiliary signatories, and keep on routing around until you eventually land up in HK. The only thing a US citizen gain from a Swiss bank account from is protection domestic civil litigation, i.e., divorce claims. Swiss nationals, as I understand it, still retain their anonymity but who really knows.

Fun fact: It's not the Caymans, Switzerland, or HK that is the largest tax shelter in the world - it's the US banking system.

Re: Swiss-Based Cloud VPS – For Developers Who Care

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Post by jacquesm »

mkuhn wrote: post #28
jacquesm wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow, you actually believe that? To me 'popular' means 'has the best margins for us'.

For me these popular badges always were much more about anchoring [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring

Sure, but that's just the means, the margins are the ends.

Re: Swiss-Based Cloud VPS – For Developers Who Care

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Post by XERQ »

I'm the founder of SSD Nodes, a US-based cloud provider, and we have special HN pricing where you can get 1GB RAM instances for only $2.99/mo

https://www.ssdnodes.com/hn/

* You can upgrade with zero downtime to a larger server (it will live resize)

* 100% uptime SLA

* Fastest SSDs (we've achieved over 200K write IOPS and 1GB/s writes)

* Direct support from engineers

* Bitcoin payments accepted

* 7-day no-hassle refund guarantee

/plug

Re: Swiss-Based Cloud VPS – For Developers Who Care

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Post by stanmancan »

jacquesm wrote: post #23
gruez wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've seen enough pricing pages to know that "popular" really means "recommended", but with the added benefit of social proof.

Wow, you actually believe that? To me 'popular' means 'has the best margins for us'.

Which explains why they recommend it!

Re: Swiss-Based Cloud VPS – For Developers Who Care

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Post by gartoffel »

lorenzhs wrote: post #24
amatera wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's in Switzerland, which is one of the most expensive countries.

Switzerland is expensive, true, but it's not 10x more expensive than France.

The OVH offer you are referring to seems to have local storage in RAID-10. Price difference is huge (x6 imho) but the offers are not really the same.

Re: Swiss-Based Cloud VPS – For Developers Who Care

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Post by iheartmemcache »

lorenzhs wrote: post #24
amatera wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's in Switzerland, which is one of the most expensive countries.

Switzerland is expensive, true, but it's not 10x more expensive than France.

It's a great marketing ploy for those who are paranoid of the MPAA and want to tunnel their torrents or add an additional extra node between them and a Silk Road. He could commoditize it directly and sell SOCKS 5 proxies for 10 dollars a month and make a killing just because of the false perception that the Swiss government won't release information at the request of US federal agencies. People are way better off using US-hostile-ish countries like China, Russia, or Yemen (though I'd imagine a Visa charge to Yemen might add a whole new set of watch-list problems for a US national).

Re: Swiss-Based Cloud VPS – For Developers Who Care

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Post by romanovcode »

XERQ wrote: post #33

I'm the founder of SSD Nodes, a US-based cloud provider, and we have special HN pricing where you can get 1GB RAM instances for only $2.99/mo https://www.ssdnodes.com/hn/ * You can upgrade with zero downtime to a larger server (it will live resize) * 100% uptime SLA * Fastest SSDs (we've achieved over 200K write IOPS and 1GB/s writes) * Direct support from engineers * Bitcoin payments accepted * 7-day no-hassle refun…

Where is the servers based? Why is there no info besides "us based". Do you have data-centers in EU as well?

Re: Swiss-Based Cloud VPS – For Developers Who Care

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Post by repomies69 »

I once rented servers from Switzerland. I guess mainly based on the image of them being secure, privacy-oriented etc. It was not cheap, of course, but I was fine with that.

Turns out that they had really lousy security practice, their staff was probably some idiots. The granted access to our servers to some random dude with simple social engineering hack. In addition they never admitted their mistake, although it was clear from the admin console what had happened (I guess they didn't even research it).

The company in question was Private Layer Inc. Never use their services. I will personally never trust anything Swiss on any IT-related.

Re: Swiss-Based Cloud VPS – For Developers Who Care

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Post by tshtf »

XERQ wrote: post #33

I'm the founder of SSD Nodes, a US-based cloud provider, and we have special HN pricing where you can get 1GB RAM instances for only $2.99/mo https://www.ssdnodes.com/hn/ * You can upgrade with zero downtime to a larger server (it will live resize) * 100% uptime SLA * Fastest SSDs (we've achieved over 200K write IOPS and 1GB/s writes) * Direct support from engineers * Bitcoin payments accepted * 7-day no-hassle refun…

What virtualization do you use? OpenVZ, KVM, XenPV, XenHVM?
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