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I moved my digital stack to Europe

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Re: I moved my digital stack to Europe

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Post by geri4 »

ffritz wrote: post #433
TrackerFF wrote: post #49

For the past days I've been participating(albeit over Teams) in a conference relevant to my industry (intel), basically startups and established companies showcasing their products to a closed audience of EU gov. officials. One thing I noticed right away, is that all companies were asked "Can we fully host this from within EU or our country" from the various people in audience. Every single one. Many of the startups…

I feel this and as a German company, we have our stuff hosted in the EU. But where it becomes pointless to have the host in the EU, is when Cloudflare is a requirement. Since we expose ourselfs through their certificate, we might as well host with a US company. And I’m not aware of a EU Cloudflare competitor with similar WAF offering.

try Gcore as an EU alternative for Cloudflare

Re: I moved my digital stack to Europe

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Post by geri4 »

ffritz wrote: post #436
IAmFledge wrote: post #96

I started the process of this back in January and now, at least in terms of product hosting; fully migrated into European infrastructure ( https://bannermedia.ltd ). It didn't come without a bit of pain, but glad I've done it - and to come with this I've ended up building a whole terraform setup for cross provider / cross region high availability within Europe. So far my key mappings included: - Cloudflare -> Bunny C…

Did you use Cloudflare for it’s WAF too or just CDN? Last I checked Bunny is not a replacement for the CF WAF.

try Gcore as well

Re: I moved my digital stack to Europe

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Post by embedding-shape »

saulapremium wrote: post #492
frumplestlatz wrote: post #392

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you find yourself with a view of reality that massively differs from others, you have two options. (1) Assume they’re irrational, uninformed, and wrong, or (2) Reconsider your priors and attempt to understand why they think the way that they do. Let’s take the “island of garbage”. It was said by a comedian during his set. The Trump campaign stated “this joke does not reflect the views of President Trump or the cam…

I think the viral quote "Dear America: You are waking up, as Germany once did, to the awareness that 1/3 of your people would kill another 1/3, while 1/3 watches." is probably pretty apt. The IRGC also has real support among the Iranian population. Putin clearly has strong support in Russia. Generally, a lot of people are just not good people.

> Generally, a lot of people are just not good people.

Worth remember, no one sees themselves as the "bad people", in each one of those 1/3's point of view, they're the "good people".

Re: I moved my digital stack to Europe

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Post by embedding-shape »

encom wrote: post #439
embedding-shape wrote: post #386

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> We’re two years into his term and democracy does not appear to be dismantled, or even remotely at risk of being dismantled. I also expect the same or similar accusations to be leveled at the next Republican candidate, who if elected, will also not “dismantle democracy”. I'm not American, I dislike Democrats and Republicans in the US, they're both horrible, just to preface this. Secondly, no other president has urge…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7l0Rq9E8MY

Useful, thanks.

Re: I moved my digital stack to Europe

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Post by Alacart »

frumplestlatz wrote: post #382
Alacart wrote: post #368

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Here is a video of him saying it: https://youtube.com/watch?v=bTm0du4kUH0

Thanks for the context. He’s speaking to evangelical Christians that do not regularly vote, and in the context of instituting voter ID to secure future elections. ID is required to vote in most (all?) EU states.

I think you’re being disingenuous and deliberately trying to refocus the conversation on something else now.

He literally said “if you vote for me, you won’t need to vote again”. It’s not an ambiguous statement and doesn’t require extra context. Everything else you said didn’t really have anything to do with it.

Re: I moved my digital stack to Europe

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Post by bborud »

schnitzelstoat wrote: post #13

While I agree with him that the US is becoming more unpredictable, I don't think the EU is much better, especially with regards to digital things where they can be worse in some ways. For example, they are discussing restricting VPN access for 'child protection'[1] [1] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document/EPRS_AT...

As someone pointed out: the risk is not so much spying but the chances of someone pulling the plug and your systems going dark.

First the systems have to be up. Then we can deal with the spying and nonsense.

Re: I moved my digital stack to Europe

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Post by hohithere »

sdoering wrote: post #20
iLoveOncall wrote: post #8

Using OVH for backups is a crazy choice. They had a datacenter burn down (in large part because it was fully built using wood) and lost all customer data and did not take any action for 6 months after the incident. They're just not a serious company.

Any source for this? Would love to read up on this.

This is in baguette but with many pictures: https://lafibre.info/ovh-datacenter/incendie-sur-un-site-ovh...

Re: I moved my digital stack to Europe

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Post by _carbyau_ »

Unfunkyufo wrote: post #498
dsl wrote: post #396

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Which is just wildly backwards. It is the same mindset of the cyberpunk "privacy advocates" of the early 2000s, move your stuff to Sealand or Switzerland. The fundamental flaw with this plan is if your fear is genuinely of the United States, your data is far more protected inside the US. The intelligence community has no restrictions operating on foreign networks and servers. Rather than go to a FISA court for approv…

As an advocate (and practitioner) of European digital sovereignty, let me tell you, at least from my perspective, it has absolutely nothing to do with fear of US intelligence agencies spying on us, and everything to do with the catastrophic consequences of an unreliable and unstable American government pulling the plug on our vital infrastructure, or at least the very least weaponizing our dependency on American comp…

Can you sponsor GrapheneOS or fork Android similarly please? Maybe HMD should be working with GrapheneOS.

Re: I moved my digital stack to Europe

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Post by tick_tock_tick »

throwaway2037 wrote: post #134
hununu wrote: post #106

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Being hosted in Canada is no longer the safety many assumed before. In reality it should not be an American company beholden to the current administration.

And that has never happened to any European company, right? (I'm looking at you ASML.) By your logic, does that mean that most European nations are "no longer the safety many assumed before"?

ASML is not really a good example it's basically an American company because of it's history.

Re: I moved my digital stack to Europe

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Post by protocolture »

JuniperMesos wrote: post #540
TheCapn wrote: post #531

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As a Canadian who has been listening to the "51st state" wordvomit coming out of US administration your comment is very apt. For some reason I can't fully grasp, a LOT of US citizens are ignorant to how the rest of the world is perceiving them at the current moment. There's countless US articles talking about US/Canada relations as if it is a trade dispute and that they think Canadians are eager to re-unite and go ba…

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>the more US citizens have to worry that that foreigners attempting to immigrate here for the long-term have a plan involving exercising influence on US politics from their position inside the country, in order to punish existing US citizens.

I am not aware of any, but I would love to hear any and all plans to punish US citizens.

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