Now that the Norwegian parliament decided to bend over for EU and has put in to effect a law, the so called "data retention directive", that will make it mandatory for ISPs and teleco's to store loads of information about every citizen, me and I am guessing many other fellow europeans are looking for a good VPS provider to funnel our traffic through. My main concerns are privacy (i.e., not have their servers in a country that would bend over for the norwegian justice department), and of course price. It would mostly be used for ssh -D and irc, so the hardware is not much of a concern.

Googling for "cheap secure vps" lists pretty much every VPS-provider out there, so I thought I'd reach out to this knowledgable community!

Also; if anyone wants to discuss the directive and/or ways to circumvent it, my contact info is in my profile.