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What's surprising is the lack of alternative services (even outside the US) that clearly state any service they provide will in fact shut down before not being transparent. I have cancelled quite a few services over the last few months, but struggle to find real alternatives.

Also, I doubt even transparency in the aggregate would be enough to make me go back into US based offerings.




Take a look at http://www.ovh.co.uk/cloud/public-cloud.xml EC2-like instances are supposed to be released at the end of august.


I notice they've now got a US based datacenter. With my overly-paranoid hat on, I wonder how much that places their entire business under risk of NSA pressure?


They have a North American datacenter in Canada, but nothing in the US. The website makes it seem like they do presumably for marketing reasons.


What I'd like to see is a link to their policy supporting transparency for clients.




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