You are missing https://unikraft.com/pricing . Amazing compute, 2 instances free. A German company. Offers EU hosting too. Just a happy paying user myself
How do they compare to the likes of fly.io, Railway, Render, Northflank ?
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
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think you mean Brevo instead of Brave? Previously known by the (much better) name SendInBlue.
Yes, thank you! It’s so annoying how frequently that typo gets me, and my brain just skips over it. I’ve updated it above. And I also preferred SendInBlue!
iOS still thinks I really, really mean ‘bexause’ instead of ‘because’, so your typo barely registered.
My only gripe with SIB was terribly low deliverability to Outlook, even with full config.
Re: The bootstrapper's EU stack for under €10 per month
#43You are missing https://unikraft.com/pricing . Amazing compute, 2 instances free. A German company. Offers EU hosting too. Just a happy paying user myself
How do they compare to the likes of fly.io, Railway, Render, Northflank ?
They focus on compute only. Otherwise roughly the same thing, but you get amazing performance with their own technology (from research, part of the Linux Foundation) to boot, sleep, and wake instances up in bare milliseconds.
You deploy using a Dockerfile, or Docker Compose.
Definitely suggest you give it a shot. The free plan is a no-brainer for the performance you get. We are on the team plan at https://www.sourcemeta.com
Re: The bootstrapper's EU stack for under €10 per month
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
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)
Wow, I'd never heard of Zonomi, or RimuHosting (which appears to be the parent company). Data centers in NZ & Oz & UK & Germany, and the website gives me the vibe of those customer focused companies of the late 90s / early 2000s, probably because they started in 2002. Pricing is a little more than I'd like, but I'm just pleased to see alternatives like this in Oceania. Thanks for sharing! Bookmarked immediately.
I've used their (same family of company) email hosting services lightly in the past and found that to work well also. For the DNS I'm paying like $1 a month which is probably more than it needs to be, but sufficiently low that I'm happy to support small/local business. I'm also reasonably confident I could get a response if anything ever goes wrong, untested as nothing has so far.
Re: The bootstrapper's EU stack for under €10 per month
#45> passkeys, the modern way to handle login that gets rid of password resets entirely Doesn't that just trade password resets for passkey resets? Or do they permanently lock out users who lose their passkey?
Yeah you just allow setting a new passkey by sending an email link, just like password resets. Passkeys don't have to be remembered, can't be phished, and don't need 2FA.
That's highly misleading to outright misinformation.
> Passkeys don't have to be remembered
Because you need an app for the login flow. You also don't have to remember passwords if you use a password manager app.
> don't need 2FA
Not true, a second factor in the form of eg a biometric ID or PIN is mandatory.
Phishing resistance exists, but only truly so if you completely surrender control over your device and access to your credentials. Something that the same organizations who you'll depend on for Passkeys are actively pushing for through various initiatives.
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Re: The bootstrapper's EU stack for under €10 per month
#47You are missing https://unikraft.com/pricing . Amazing compute, 2 instances free. A German company. Offers EU hosting too. Just a happy paying user myself
Hm, interesting. But the pricing page is quite confusing to me: the $39 "pro plan" says "Up to 8 instances running". And above that, "Pricing that scales to zero". But if I'm always paying $39, what's the point of scaling to zero vs just keeping the 8 instances running? I guess the point is that you can scale down one workload and scale up another, but that seems a bit niche compared to the much more common use case of "scale up with increased user activity, and pay less when users are sleeping".
It's missing some sort of per-minute / per-GB RAM "pay as you go" pricing model. It seems like Fly.io, but missing the pay-as-you-go pricing & rapid scaling model that makes Fly worth using.
Re: The bootstrapper's EU stack for under €10 per month
#48I 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…
as long as the text is not slop (no hallucinations / factual) and useful to me, I do not care about the author of it
Re: The bootstrapper's EU stack for under €10 per month
#49I 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
You're absolutely wrong.
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