WARNING:
If the hosting company is US based but has servers elsewhere in the world, the US authorities can get your server shipped back to the US. Just ask the terrorists at
www.indymedia.org who's server hosted in a UK datacentre got disconnected and sent to the FBI because the hosting company is a US company (Rackspace).
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10...dymedia_raids/