Interesting. Wonder if they have competitive pricing on GPU instances.
The bootstrapper's EU stack for under €10 per month
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Re: The bootstrapper's EU stack for under €10 per month
#52For a bootstrapper's computeless log search solution using Duckdb and s3 compatible store, use Blobsearch (https://github.com/amr8t/blobsearch)
Re: The bootstrapper's EU stack for under €10 per month
#53As someone who tries to "buy local", I have been a happy customer of the following recommended services for many months or years: - Hetzner (Cloud, Box, and Object Storage) - Brevo (for transactional emails) - Mollie For monitoring I use and recommend UpDown.io, which doesn’t seem to be listed there.
After Sendgrid got acquired by Twilio and retired their free plan, i also went with Brevo and am quite happy with it. No deliverability issues on the major email operators (Google, MS365) at all, decent delivery speed.
Fastmail is excellent, FWIW
Re: The bootstrapper's EU stack for under €10 per month
#54any good reason to serve the EU? I am observing through various SaaS and support tickets and EU seem no average way more finicky and stingy than North American customers not to mention the absurd level of EU regulations you have to follow just to serve the same product at a much higher cost. It's like a bad mix of culture (bordering on arrogance and pathological in some bad cases) and over regulation. I always advise…
Out of curiosity, what EU laws does your 'same product' break?
Re: The bootstrapper's EU stack for under €10 per month
#55I know it's boring to comment and say that something sounds like it was written by an AI, but this sounds like it was written by an AI. I am often especially suspicious of these listicle recommendation sites because it's pretty cheap and easy to have dozens of sites doing some list which just so happens to mention a specific service that 'quietly' does a 'surprisingly good job' of some doodad. This kind of submarine…
The use of the word genuinely is always a dead giveaway
But someone can genuinely like using the word!
Re: The bootstrapper's EU stack for under €10 per month
#56I don't think that's an alternative to US hyperscalers. Scaleway is the closest thing there is. Replacing a single service with 10 others is not really an alternative in my opinion.
I would argue that with AI, this becomes less of an issue. Connect N services, deploy to bare metal. Granted, AI is an additional cost now local or remote. But so is the MacBook people use to develop their software.
Now you've got N potential points of failure.
Re: The bootstrapper's EU stack for under €10 per month
#57any good reason to serve the EU? I am observing through various SaaS and support tickets and EU seem no average way more finicky and stingy than North American customers not to mention the absurd level of EU regulations you have to follow just to serve the same product at a much higher cost. It's like a bad mix of culture (bordering on arrogance and pathological in some bad cases) and over regulation. I always advise…
Maybe we have a more refined taste :)
Re: The bootstrapper's EU stack for under €10 per month
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Xenophobic from whose perspective...? For Europeans, every EU alternative should be strongly considered to help reduce dependency risks wherever possible.
Re: The bootstrapper's EU stack for under €10 per month
#59I know it's boring to comment and say that something sounds like it was written by an AI, but this sounds like it was written by an AI. I am often especially suspicious of these listicle recommendation sites because it's pretty cheap and easy to have dozens of sites doing some list which just so happens to mention a specific service that 'quietly' does a 'surprisingly good job' of some doodad. This kind of submarine…
The use of the word genuinely is always a dead giveaway
And “honestly” in the way it is used in this piece
Re: The bootstrapper's EU stack for under €10 per month
#60Creem is just a MoR layer on top of Stripe. Not really an EU alternative.