After researching the EU data retention situation, here's what I found.
Switzerland is looking less reliable. ProtonMail handed over that activist's IP in 2021, and they've been signing EU cooperation agreements through 2024-2025. The privacy reputation seems more marketing than reality now.
Panama works for legal incorporation and jurisdiction protection, but server latency to EU is 180ms+ which kills performance.
Serbia is actually interesting: not in the EU so no data retention laws, 25ms latency to EU cities, low costs, and they don't automatically cooperate with requests. Seems like the best option for EU-facing infrastructure right now.
The setup that makes sense: Panama for legal entity (jurisdiction protection), Serbia for servers (performance), Russia/Kazakhstan as fallback.
Anyone else looked into Serbian hosting providers?
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After researching the EU data retention situation, here's what I found.
Switzerland is looking less reliable. ProtonMail handed over that activist's IP in 2021, and they've been signing EU cooperation agreements through 2024-2025. The privacy reputation seems more marketing than reality now.
Panama works for legal incorporation and jurisdiction protection, but server latency to EU is 180ms+ which kills performance.
Serbia is actually interesting: not in the EU so no data retention laws, 25ms latency to EU cities, low costs, and they don't automatically cooperate with requests. Seems like the best option for EU-facing infrastructure right now.
The setup that makes sense: Panama for legal entity (jurisdiction protection), Serbia for servers (performance), Russia/Kazakhstan as fallback.
Anyone else looked into Serbian hosting providers?