Cloudflare also works in Europe and has POPs there so I don't see why you couldn't use that. But there are also Hetzner VMs if you can configure sometime a bit less turnkey and don't necessarily need a CDN but just hosting mainly.
The problem is that it is still an American company, which is subject to American laws, which these days are fairly arbitrary and subject to change as often as the direction of the wind.
To a European it is not much different these days from hosting it on Alibaba Cloud or Yandex: you don't want to rely on hostile powers for critical infrastructure.
Care to share an example of cloudflare impacting you from this to date? CEO is a lawyer and feel like they adhere to their principles pretty firmly. Just check the latest in Italy
The problem isn't "to date" the problem is what might be.
Sure, maybe the CloudFlare CEO seems like they "do the right thing" and then the administration gets pissed off at something CF related, they lean on the CF board and you've got a new CEO and maybe CF is sold off to "a friend of the show".
Nothing specific to CF here it's just how all US companies need to be viewed.
I think these days people are generally more suspicious and nervous, and are looking around for potential alternatives. But price, quality, and UX/DX will win eventually, imo.
European Alternatives https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46731976
thank you
that website is quite dead though.
If you are looking for serverless compute (aws lambda, cf workers), I know of Scaleway in europe.
Never heard about Scaleway tbh. Thank you. Will take a look
Cloudflare also works in Europe and has POPs there so I don't see why you couldn't use that. But there are also Hetzner VMs if you can configure sometime a bit less turnkey and don't necessarily need a CDN but just hosting mainly.
The problem is that it is still an American company, which is subject to American laws, which these days are fairly arbitrary and subject to change as often as the direction of the wind.
To a European it is not much different these days from hosting it on Alibaba Cloud or Yandex: you don't want to rely on hostile powers for critical infrastructure.
Care to share an example of cloudflare impacting you from this to date? CEO is a lawyer and feel like they adhere to their principles pretty firmly. Just check the latest in Italy
The problem isn't "to date" the problem is what might be.
Sure, maybe the CloudFlare CEO seems like they "do the right thing" and then the administration gets pissed off at something CF related, they lean on the CF board and you've got a new CEO and maybe CF is sold off to "a friend of the show".
Nothing specific to CF here it's just how all US companies need to be viewed.
And what exactly stops this from happening to any company or organization, regardless of being US-based?
If 90% of customers are in the US, they're probably going to comply.
I think these days people are generally more suspicious and nervous, and are looking around for potential alternatives. But price, quality, and UX/DX will win eventually, imo.
Yeah, agree. Thanks for your answer
"statichost" is neat: https://www.statichost.eu/
No functions though!
Looking good!
also take a look at https://bunny.net
I'm hosting some static sites on Bunny and I've found their service to be superb.
Awesome, thank you
CDN - Bunny CDN is from Slovenia
Hosting - literally gazzilion of choices.
CF pages/workers - i don't know what that is.