"We will need you to send us a high quality scan of a government ID or passport in order to verify your account. Please send the picture, or a link of the picture, to:"<p>No thanks.
Softlayer also introduced a London region a few hours ago.
<a href="http://blog.softlayer.com/2014/london-just-got-cloudier%E2%80%94lon02-live" rel="nofollow">http://blog.softlayer.com/2014/london-just-got-cloudier%E2%8...</a>
The biggest thing that should be celebrated about this announcement is the availability of IPv6 addresses. Hopefully the rest of the regions will be enabled soon too!
Just did a quick test from London, comparing lon1 to ams2. Pleasant increase in speeds (25 MB/s up, 20 MB/s down vs. 15 MB/s each way for ams2, though these fluctuate) and a nice decrease in ping (3.5 ms vs 8 ms). Nice to see.<p>Not sure what the legal/regulatory differences are for hosting in London compared to elsewhere?