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Re: Europe's company websites are mostly served by US vendors

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Post by input_sh »

tonyhart7 wrote: post #107
throwaway894345 wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> IMHO this mutual interdependence is actually a good thing. It stimulates maintaining peaceful relations and engaging in trade. We could use a little more of that. Isolationism didn't lead to anything good last century either. I think interdependence is a good thing, but I think the EU is _reliant_ on the US militarily and economically and that's ... not great particularly when the US leadership is openly hostile to…

what Europe option anyway ???? other than US another power that can fill up the space is China or are european saying china is better than US ????

Well for one thing, China wasn't adamant about annexing territory belonging to a European nation like half a year ago.

Re: Europe's company websites are mostly served by US vendors

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Post by betorabinovich »

tonyhart7 wrote: post #107
throwaway894345 wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> IMHO this mutual interdependence is actually a good thing. It stimulates maintaining peaceful relations and engaging in trade. We could use a little more of that. Isolationism didn't lead to anything good last century either. I think interdependence is a good thing, but I think the EU is _reliant_ on the US militarily and economically and that's ... not great particularly when the US leadership is openly hostile to…

what Europe option anyway ???? other than US another power that can fill up the space is China or are european saying china is better than US ????

It's certainly easier to do business with countries that aren't governed by a psychotic moron that likes to threaten your cost equation on a weekly basis to enrich its cronies

Re: Europe's company websites are mostly served by US vendors

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Post by 650REDHAIR »

tonyhart7 wrote: post #107
throwaway894345 wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> IMHO this mutual interdependence is actually a good thing. It stimulates maintaining peaceful relations and engaging in trade. We could use a little more of that. Isolationism didn't lead to anything good last century either. I think interdependence is a good thing, but I think the EU is _reliant_ on the US militarily and economically and that's ... not great particularly when the US leadership is openly hostile to…

what Europe option anyway ???? other than US another power that can fill up the space is China or are european saying china is better than US ????

I don’t remember the last time China threatened to invade Denmark?

I do remember the last time the USA did. It was hours ago at a NATO summit.

Re: Europe's company websites are mostly served by US vendors

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Post by orbifold »

"What it means and what it does not": article is clearly written by claude, which for me at this point means that I pay as much attention to it as I do to Claudes output: I skim it and then move on. It actually requires far more effort of me to read it than it was to generate the content. Before it would have always been the other way around. Whoever wrote the article would have had to spend way more time writing it than me reading it.

Re: Europe's company websites are mostly served by US vendors

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Post by cuu508 »

econ wrote: post #87
cuu508 wrote: post #71

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Do you know of any EU payment processor that supports recurring payments like a SaaS would need (subscriptions, subscription state tracking, automatic retries of failed payments)? I looked but couldn't find any. Adyen does not do this on its own AFAICT, only with 3rd party addons that implement recurring payments on top of it. Mollie claims it does this but is woefully incomplete (no failed payment retries for exampl…

Fake news? > Mollie will retry the failed payment up to 5 times. https://docs.mollie.com/docs/recurring-payments

Oh, interesting, I stand corrected!

I was investigating this 5 months ago and the answer their slop machine gave was:

> Does Mollie retry failed payments (dunning) and track subscription states? Mollie does not currently provide automatic dunning or retry logic for failed subscription payments. Subscription states like active or past due are tracked, but you need to implement retry and notification logic in your system. This is a common feature request and may be on the roadmap, but no official release date is available.

From your link, note though:

> If your subscription payment does not succeed, Mollie may attempt it again up to 5 times (once a day), depending on the failure reason. After all retries have been exhausted, the subscription will be cancelled.

If there's a payment issue, I would not consider cancelling the subscription 5 days after the first failure as reasonable. I would expect the subscription to go into "past due" state, and to keep retrying.

Re: Europe's company websites are mostly served by US vendors

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Post by embedding-shape »

khurs wrote: post #102
embedding-shape wrote: post #46

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Right, because you're looking for a Stripe alternative, none of them will be. Did you actually try searching what I told you you could use as a search term? Have you looked into Mollie, Adyen, Klarna, Mangopay, Quickpay, etc? The list is quite large, there are options available but again, it requires you to proactively review and compare them, not just throw your hands in the air proclaiming "It's not Stripe".

Seems you need to use multiple providers and route payments depending on card type if you want lowest rates. For example, mollie is 2.5% for Amex but Stripe is 1.5% for Amex but or others it swings other way. > Mollie for UK - 1.2% + 20p for standard cards - 2.90% + £0.20 for corporate and European - 2.50% + £0.20 for Amex - 3.25% + £0.20 for international > Stripe for UK - 1.5% + £0.20 for standards cards inc Amex -…

Almost only Americans use Amex though, unless you exclusively target the US market, you can skip it and basically not miss out on a single customer.

Re: Europe's company websites are mostly served by US vendors

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Post by itsamario »

Bender wrote: post #104
itsamario wrote: post #91

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Most of the 13 root dns servers are American. They're distributed geographically but still owned by American entities

Adding for somewhat completeness sake those are 13 anycast IP addresses with upwards of 2000 servers responding to them. The US has about 500 to 700 of those servers. The EU about 600 servers and the rest of the world 600 to 900 but I do not have exact numbers. One of the root DNS server admins would have to chime in for more accurate numbers. I am fairly certain that the EU servers belong to companies in the EU not…

The anycast is for the /24 those IP addresses share (first.three.octects.0/24) But if you look those /24 are Arin.

Dig +trace shows the recursive lookup (forwarders) used for your NS.

They almost always end up Arin and arpa. I've troubleshot some connection issues between different data centers and transit providers and found root hint oddities I just escalate to my supervisor

Re: Europe's company websites are mostly served by US vendors

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Post by dijit »

input_sh wrote: post #111
tonyhart7 wrote: post #107

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what Europe option anyway ???? other than US another power that can fill up the space is China or are european saying china is better than US ????

Well for one thing, China wasn't adamant about annexing territory belonging to a European nation like half a year ago.

their eyes are firmly on Africa.

Not being able to stand on our own feet is going to be a major problem because of the implied soft power. It nerfs our ability to ever have a spine on any issue.

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