Well, actually - yes; depending on the country. But that's not the point. The point is that your own country has to go through more convoluted international channels to get your data.
We've just taken the beta wrappers off http://bigv.io/ after two years (we've been in business for 11). It's hosted in Manchester, UK - £10 / month for 1GB RAM, scale to 180GB, real actual humans on the phone for support, console access, choice of disc grades (SATA, SAS, SSD), command line interface... OK I'll stop selling. It's really very good though.
You can always ask us if we have government spies in our network. If I seem to want to talk about the weather instead, it's a reasonable bet that we do :) But not yet...
Are OVH and Hetzner the top contenders here? I have things split across DigitalOcean and Linode and am about to drop both - thinking a non-VPS provider is actually the better route as I'm willing to pay if I have my own server. Any good hosts in Switzerland? That's likely the best country to host in at this point, or one of...
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You can always ask us if we have government spies in our network. If I seem to want to talk about the weather instead, it's a reasonable bet that we do :) But not yet...