UK/Europe ColdFusion Hosting?

[Guest]

Hi all,

A different slant on the common "can you recommend a CF hosting company" question.

I'm looking for a good hosting company offering CF8 (MX7 at a pinch) shared hosting and reseller accounts, preferably offering white label support on the reseller account. I don't mind paying for reliability and good service. Here's the rub: european data protection laws require that all personal data must be held on servers based in the EU or in a country with comparable data protection (currently approved countries are Switzerland (surprise, surprise), Canada, Guernsey and Argentina).

US companies are only OK if they are current members of the Safe Harbor scheme and I've heard there are issues with UK sites operating under a .com domain being hosted in the states, they rank really badly in UK Google searches.

So far I have the following list of hosting providers to check out, in no particular order:

Openmind Hosting (UK)
FlintHosts (UK)
CFMX Hosting (UK)
Yeti Host (UK or Canada)
Crystaltech (US)

HostmySite are not members of Safe Harbor so they're out. I've also been *all* through Ben Fortas list wihtout luck, the list is very out of date where Europe is concerned - no reflection on Ben whatsoever because hosting companies are responsible for maintaining their own entries.

Can anyone please recommend others which I should check out? Thanks in advance.

[Hydrowizard]

What about Australia? Cheaper than the pound. The only ones I have used in the UK are hostway.cvo.uk but they will rip you off badly they cost a fortune but as they kept on telling me you pay for the service and uptime. Good luck with your search

[Guest]

Hi Hydrowizard

Thank for the reply. I'd love to be able to look at Australia - the home of FarCry - , there seems to be much more choice than in the UK and the rest of Europe. Unfortunately I can't consider Oz based hosting for any sites which store personal data - no client mailing lists, project management, ecommerce (with user accounts), etc. This is because the EU does not recognize Australia as having sufficiently strong personal data protection and privacy laws.

I'm one of the (rare) Brits who are generally pro Europe but for this situation I suspect it's a case of nightmare bureaucracy from the EU rather than any inherent weakness in Oz law...

[gayanb]

try

http://www.bluegecko.net/

[Guest]

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Originally posted by: gayanb
try

http://www.bluegecko.net/

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Thanks for the advice. Checked them out and unfortunately they are US based but not on the Safe Harbor list...