[rapind]

I've been eying Vultr for dedicated metal in Canada (Toronto Datacenter). How do they measure up to Hertzner? I'm not looking to get the best possible deal, but just better value than EC2 (which costs me a fair amount of egress).

[Sanzig]

If you are a Canadian entity, I would go OVH rather than Vultr. OVH US is a completely distinct legal entity from their Canada and EU offerings, specifically so that the rest of OVH is immune to the CLOUD Act. Vultr is an American company, so if Uncle Sam asks for your data, even at a Canadian location, there's nothing Vultr nor you can do to stop it.

This wasn't a consideration a few years ago, but with how quickly things are devolving south of the border it's now much more of a risk. If I were operating a company in Canada, I would want to be able to assure my customers that their data won't get expropriated to the US without first going through Canadian courts.

OVH Canada now has two Canadian locations, by the way - the original location in Beauharnois and a new location in Cambridge, so you even can have two zones for redundancy.

[rapind]

Yes I was also looking at OVH. I heard some horror stories about a fire several years ago and a lack of backups though...

[CaptainOfCoit]

I'd go for Hetzner any day of the week, but if a client really screams "Servers MUST be in North America" I'd use Vultr before anything else, unless the client is bandwidth-sensitive.