Revised FADP (in force since 2023)
Stricter than GDPR on profiling, automated decision-making and cross-border transfers. Non-Swiss authorities need a Swiss court order to obtain data — no streamlined MLAT shortcut.
Zurich is Europe's strongest federal data-protection and privacy-law regime, combined with a Tier IV 2N+1 seismic-rated bunker on 100 % hydroelectric power. Neither EU nor NATO.
CH-ZRH
The four numbers that actually matter when picking a datacenter: how redundant is the facility, how thick are the pipes, where does the power come from, and what legal framework protects what you host.
Highest Uptime Institute classification. 2N+1 on every critical subsystem.
Multi-carrier Tier-1 stack + SwissIX and DE-CIX peering.
Revised Federal Act on Data Protection in force since Sep 2023 — stricter than GDPR on profiling.
Any disclosure needs a Swiss court order under Swiss law. No safe-harbour treaty workarounds.
How your packets actually get in and out of Zurich — the carriers that carry transit, the IXs that carry peering, and the round-trip time to the rest of the world.
Carrier-diverse Tier-1 transit aggregated with direct peering at the relevant Internet Exchange.
AS2914AS1299AS1299AS13030ZurichFrankfurtMeasured round-trip times from our CH-ZRH edge to key European and North-American locations.
The specific statutes, court rulings and international positions that make Switzerland meaningful as a hosting jurisdiction — not just a marketing checkbox.
Switzerland is not in the EU and not in NATO. Its Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP), revised and strengthened in 2023, is among the strictest privacy frameworks in the world — and unlike GDPR, it does not defer to a pan-continental regulator: enforcement is entirely Swiss, under Swiss court supervision.
Stricter than GDPR on profiling, automated decision-making and cross-border transfers. Non-Swiss authorities need a Swiss court order to obtain data — no streamlined MLAT shortcut.
The same confidentiality principles that underpin Swiss banking extend by analogy to data custody — breaches are a criminal offence under Art. 47 BankA / Art. 35 FADP.
Not in the EU (no automatic adoption of EU-wide surveillance directives), not in NATO (no obligation to participate in Five/Nine-Eyes intelligence sharing).
Swiss telecoms law requires targeted, warrant-based retention — not the bulk/blanket logging that characterises many EU jurisdictions.
Cooling, power, physical access, fire suppression — the parts that don't show up on a marketing page but determine whether your server comes back after a local incident.
Both product lines run in CH-ZRH. Select this location at the plan's checkout.
If Switzerland isn't the right fit, here's the rest of our fleet.
Pick a VPS or dedicated plan, choose CH-ZRH at checkout, pay the invoice in crypto — SSH credentials in your inbox within 60 seconds (VPS) or 2 – 4 hours (dedicated).