The bootstrapper's EU stack for under €10 per month

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Post by sparkling » Mon, May 25, 2026, 6:37 PM UTC

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

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Post by embedding-shape » Mon, May 25, 2026, 7:23 PM UTC

What about DNS buying/hosting? Seems it's not mentioned (neither is emailing besides transactional/marketing). I'm currently on DNSimple but been trying to replace it with some closer to home (Europe) alternative that still offers the same level of possible automation as DNSimple does, anyone know of any that fits the bill?

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Post by satvikpendem » Mon, May 25, 2026, 7:28 PM UTC

On Herzner add Dokploy (Honduras, I prefer this even if it's not European) or Coolify (Hungary) to get a Vercel-like PaaS experience for free. Any others that are good?

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Post by mnahkies » Mon, May 25, 2026, 7:29 PM UTC

embedding-shape wrote: post #2

What about DNS buying/hosting? Seems it's not mentioned (neither is emailing besides transactional/marketing). I'm currently on DNSimple but been trying to replace it with some closer to home (Europe) alternative that still offers the same level of possible automation as DNSimple does, anyone know of any that fits the bill?

It's not European, rather a New Zealand company but I find https://zonomi.com/ pretty good. There's a Lego resolver that works fine https://github.com/go-acme/lego - although my only complaint is the DNS propagation takes a while though I suspect that's a my config problem (dig will show the txt record long before Lego sees it)

Re: The bootstrapper's EU stack for under €10 per month

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Post by byyll » Mon, May 25, 2026, 7:30 PM UTC

embedding-shape wrote: post #2

What about DNS buying/hosting? Seems it's not mentioned (neither is emailing besides transactional/marketing). I'm currently on DNSimple but been trying to replace it with some closer to home (Europe) alternative that still offers the same level of possible automation as DNSimple does, anyone know of any that fits the bill?

ClouDNS is probably the most popular one.

Re: The bootstrapper's EU stack for under €10 per month

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Post by byyll » Mon, May 25, 2026, 7:35 PM UTC

I 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.

Re: The bootstrapper's EU stack for under €10 per month

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Post by thinkindie » Mon, May 25, 2026, 7:36 PM UTC

this website seems a clone of https://european-alternatives.eu/

Either way, one of the most critical parts is that many are still hosting on Google Cloud, AWS or Microsoft, therefore you are not 100% insulated from Cloud Act.

Re: The bootstrapper's EU stack for under €10 per month

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Post by gitowiec » Mon, May 25, 2026, 7:38 PM UTC

I thought I will find GetResponse there, but they are fucking greedy!

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Post by pickleballcourt » Mon, May 25, 2026, 7:40 PM UTC

Haven’t used herzner but heard good things

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Post by veselin » Mon, May 25, 2026, 7:42 PM UTC

byyll wrote: post #6

I 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.