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I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure

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Re: I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure

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Post by willy__ »

deaux wrote: post #120
willy__ wrote: post #115

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Google Ads does "kind of" work in the niche I am in, usually with low competition key words.... but I did stop throwing money at it. I am never going to return the investment per conversion... but if you want a search engine to throw your money at.. it is still pretty much without alternative to me.

If you want to throw your money into a pit, there's a lot of alternative pits available out there. Happy to share my bank account, then at least one of us gets use out of it. > You can add email/password and passkeys, but removing social logins entirely is a conversion killer. Every one of those auth flows hits American servers. The silver lining: Hanko, a German identity provider, handles the auth layer itself, so a…

Interesting! I will think about the Spotify thing. I will pass on your bank account for now, thank you.

Re: I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure

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Post by Aldipower »

AJRF wrote: post #148

I just signed up up Hetzner Their menu has: - Console - konsoleH - Robot - DNS When I click into Console I get an additional option called "Website" I have no idea what Robot and konsoleH are. Is it a prerequisite if you make a cloud platform to make your offering as confusing as possible?

Just try AWS! :-P

Re: I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure

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Post by fauigerzigerk »

znnajdla wrote: post #138
fauigerzigerk wrote: post #132

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>However, I've realized you can stay sovereign and independent in any jurisdiction (not just Europe) just by simplifying your stack and running a few baremetal servers in-house. Only if you have physical offices and staff in every jurisdiction you're serving.

Presumably you have a home where you live? That's your physical office. And no you don't need a presence in every jurisdiction you serve. Visa payment network serves the world from the US.

>Presumably you have a home where you live?

Yes, but not where my customers live. The whole point of "sovereignty" is to serve customers from a location that is bound by the laws of _their_ jurisdiction, not mine.

Re: I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure

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Post by willy__ »

AJRF wrote: post #148

I just signed up up Hetzner Their menu has: - Console - konsoleH - Robot - DNS When I click into Console I get an additional option called "Website" I have no idea what Robot and konsoleH are. Is it a prerequisite if you make a cloud platform to make your offering as confusing as possible?

Hetzner is juggling quite a bit of legacy systems (konesoleH, Robot) around at the same time.. bare metal (root) is still on Robot, a system from the early 2000s I believe.. konsoleH is for classic website hosting and console is what oyu need for cloud. They are progressively moving over stuff to console now, DNS and Storage Boxes have recently moved.

Re: I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure

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Post by Aldipower »

anilakar wrote: post #123

Running microservices on Hetzner is a risky move. Their direct internet connections rarely go down, but links between servers in their internal network suffer from intermittent failures. if you make your service reliable enough to be able to run on a single node, you could have built a monolith in the first place.

If you build microservices you should always assume that links go down! So what is the deal here? Think about it as a feature to make your application more error prone. :-)

Re: I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure

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Post by piokoch »

All of those considerations are driven by politics, not technical matters. What if in Germany next election will be won by AfD, in France by Lepenists (Jordan Bardella is going for the win in 2027 election). And next US election will be won by Democrats. What's then? Moving back to the USA?

Re: I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure

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Post by Aldipower »

mkzet wrote: post #98

A lot of people are over romanticizing on Hetzner. The hard truth is that Hetzner is a great provider for bare metal machines and extremely competitive pricing, but it's extremely demanding to run production workloads there without a dedicated infra guy. Claude won't wake up in the middle of the night solving the things helped you provision in an acceptable timeframe. If you are serious about your product SLOs, hyper…

You know, Hetzner is around since 1997, the term cloud didn't even exists then. Or AWS... The only hard truth is something when I see my wife.

Re: I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure

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Post by willy__ »

reddalo wrote: post #83
willy__ wrote: post #30

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Interesting. I actually had a human translator do the french translation because I didn't trust deepl/LLMs on certain languages. He was Belgian though. Thanks for the feedback, I will certainly consider it - I don't speak french myself.

Speaking of translations, the Italian translation seems fine but it uses English Capitalization of Titles, but that doesn't work in Italian. It should be "Pronto a trovare il tuo ricambio?", not "Pronto a Trovare il Tuo Ricambio?".

Thank you!

Re: I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure

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Post by Sharparam »

bjourne wrote: post #118
zelphirkalt wrote: post #104

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You mean when using "sign in with" and then using a shitty password for your social media account? If you use e-mail and password with a good password manager, that runs locally on your device and generate good random passwords, it is unlikely you will end up on haveibeenpwned, and even if one website does shit, the blast radius is only one account on one website.

You'll still have your e-mail address exposed, which you may not want if it is to some random porn site. Moreover, password managers do not work if you use multiple devices for log in, which most people actually do.

I use my password manager across multiple devices daily.

Apparently it has not been working without me noticing it?

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