I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure
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Re: I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure
#2I’ve found Scaleway really good, I’m surprised it doesn’t come up more often here.
If it matters, I didn’t go to them because they were specifically an EU org either - when Packet became Equinix Metal and then that got shut down, SCW were the most equivalent in terms of cost / hardware specifications and I often used them in parallel when Packet was still around so as to not have all my eggs in one basket.
Re: I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure
#3Codeberg would make a better choice if we speak about EU source code forges. And Forgejo instead of Gitea, which is nowadays controversial project.
Re: I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure
#4Codeberg would make a better choice if we speak about EU source code forges. And Forgejo instead of Gitea, which is nowadays controversial project.
I was roughly familiar with Github Action/Gitea Action compatibility and had a self hosted Gitea already... I found codeberg interesting though!
Re: I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure
#5Codeberg would make a better choice if we speak about EU source code forges. And Forgejo instead of Gitea, which is nowadays controversial project.
I was roughly familiar with Github Action/Gitea Action compatibility and had a self hosted Gitea already... I found codeberg interesting though!
Forgejo is more or less a drop in replacement for gitea
Re: I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure
#6I’ve found Scaleway really good, I’m surprised it doesn’t come up more often here. If it matters, I didn’t go to them because they were specifically an EU org either - when Packet became Equinix Metal and then that got shut down, SCW were the most equivalent in terms of cost / hardware specifications and I often used them in parallel when Packet was still around so as to not have all my eggs in one basket.
I really like Scaleway too ! I went with them because Linode got bought and I thought, since I was moving my things anyway, let's go to a French provider. And I got a bad experience with OVH, so Scaleway it was.
But really, I wonder why it's not used more ? Price are maybe a bit high for some things ?
Re: I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure
#7Surprisingly sober take. I enjoyed the honesty. Thanks!
Re: I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure
#8Codeberg would make a better choice if we speak about EU source code forges. And Forgejo instead of Gitea, which is nowadays controversial project.
Isn't Codeberg only for Open Source ?
Re: I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure
#9My European stack:
- OVH for object storage, domain names and simple Wordpress websites
- Scalingo/3DS Outscale for PaaS (looking for alternatives here!)
- Mailjet used to be EU but they've been acquired by Mailgun - don't know if that's an issue. Brevo is okay as an email service provider but they could be way better.
Re: I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure
#10It's also difficult to find providers for competetive large-scale non-transactional emails, i.e. marketing and newsletter mails.
None comes close to AWS, closest comes are messageflow (PL), elasticemail (PL), brevo (FR). Other players like Scaleway TEM (FR) and Lettermint (NL) don't offer non-transactional.