Swiss-Based Cloud VPS – For Developers Who Care

Post by nickpsecurity » Fri, Jan 08, 2016, 4:44 PM UTC

chinathrow wrote: post #43

sschueller wrote: post #5

I would prefer moving some of my many VPS to a local provider but Exoscale and this one have a minimum of around CHF 30 which doesn't make it worth it for me. I run many small instances not just a few big ones. In addition I would like to know which datacenter this is in and who is providing the uplink? Many datacenters in Zürich are foreign owned. Equinix alone has 5 running and will have 7 soon. EDIT: BTW Swisscom…

Just a small heads up: Swisscom is the ex-monopolist and very anti net-neutrality and even went as far as to dream about demanding money from startups who want priority of their data.

Post by iheartmemcache » Fri, Jan 08, 2016, 4:44 PM UTC

bjacobel wrote: post #7

CHF 30 (approx $30 USD) is quite steep for the base offering, compared to US-based providers (DO, Linode, AWS). What specific guarantees do I have regarding data privacy that I wouldn't get of I hosted in the US? That's something I'd like to see listed prominently on the site, so I can determine if the extra cost is worth it.

Post by repomies69 » Fri, Jan 08, 2016, 4:52 PM UTC

iheartmemcache wrote: post #31

fla wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 f…

Post by rdl » Fri, Jan 08, 2016, 5:13 PM UTC

detaro wrote: post #46

repomies69 wrote: post #38

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…

If you use that kind of measure, I guess we'll all have to create our own countries to make sure we don't use services from a country that once had a company with bad practices?

Post by detaro » Fri, Jan 08, 2016, 6:34 PM UTC

rdl wrote: post #57

detaro wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you use that kind of measure, I guess we'll all have to create our own countries to make sure we don't use services from a country that once had a company with bad practices?

Yeah, that doesn't work out as well as you might think.