Locations & jurisdictions
Is Switzerland good for privacy-focused hosting?
Yes — it has the strongest and best-tested statutory framework in our fleet. Swiss law treats hosted data much like correspondence, so disclosure requires Swiss judicial process rather than a foreign administrative request. Switzerland is not in the EU and not in the Five, Nine or Fourteen Eyes alliances. It is also our most expensive region.
Switzerland has its own data-protection law, the FADP, revised in 2023 to align closely with the GDPR, and holds an EU adequacy decision — which means EU personal data can be transferred there without additional safeguards. That combination is rare.
Zurich also has excellent European connectivity, so unlike some privacy jurisdictions you are not trading latency for law. The trade here is purely cost.
See also: Fourteen Eyes · GDPR
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