Ask HN: European alternative to Vercel/Cloudflare for hosting

13 pointsby vldszn11 days ago7 comments

ChrisArchitect11 days ago
European Alternatives https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46731976
- vldszn11 days ago
  thank you
  - gethly8 days ago
    that website is quite dead though.
peterspath11 days ago
also take a look at https://bunny.net
- Stoo9 days ago
  I'm hosting some static sites on Bunny and I've found their service to be superb.
- vldszn11 days ago
  Awesome, thank you
winstonwinston11 days ago
If you are looking for serverless compute (aws lambda, cf workers), I know of Scaleway in europe.
- vldszn11 days ago
  Never heard about Scaleway tbh. Thank you. Will take a look
corvad11 days ago
Cloudflare also works in Europe and has POPs there so I don't see why you couldn't use that. But there are also Hetzner VMs if you can configure sometime a bit less turnkey and don't necessarily need a CDN but just hosting mainly.
- crote11 days ago
  The problem is that it is still an American company, which is subject to American laws, which these days are fairly arbitrary and subject to change as often as the direction of the wind.
  To a European it is not much different these days from hosting it on Alibaba Cloud or Yandex: you don't want to rely on hostile powers for critical infrastructure.
  - rschachte10 days ago
    Care to share an example of cloudflare impacting you from this to date? CEO is a lawyer and feel like they adhere to their principles pretty firmly. Just check the latest in Italy
    glaucon8 days ago
    The problem isn't "to date" the problem is what might be.
    Sure, maybe the CloudFlare CEO seems like they "do the right thing" and then the administration gets pissed off at something CF related, they lean on the CF board and you've got a new CEO and maybe CF is sold off to "a friend of the show".
    Nothing specific to CF here it's just how all US companies need to be viewed.
    mcsniff8 days ago
    And what exactly stops this from happening to any company or organization, regardless of being US-based?
    If 90% of customers are in the US, they're probably going to comply.
    vldszn10 days ago
    I think these days people are generally more suspicious and nervous, and are looking around for potential alternatives. But price, quality, and UX/DX will win eventually, imo.
- vldszn11 days ago
  Yeah, agree. Thanks for your answer
pojntfx11 days ago
"statichost" is neat: https://www.statichost.eu/
No functions though!
- vldszn10 days ago
  Looking good!
mcb_software8 days ago
Hetzner has a very good reputation and a long history, but nothing like Serverless Runtime.
gethly9 days ago
CDN - Bunny CDN is from Slovenia
Hosting - literally gazzilion of choices.
CF pages/workers - i don't know what that is.
- gethly6 days ago
  Also CDN77 from CZ.