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Thank you for including the UK, we are still part of Europe! Added my company (https://mailpace.com https://mailpace.com) - I’m looking forward to a resurgence
by albertgoeswoof 2y ago
Thank you for including the UK, we are still part of Europe!
Added my company (https://mailpace.com https://mailpace.com) - I’m looking forward to a resurgence of innovation in European tech companies, the talent and education here is amazing, we just need to improve our investment and start treating tech with as much respect as we give to law, finance and other “prestigious” career paths here
- Separo 2y ago> Thank you for including the UK, we are still part of Europe! Always. hug
- microtonal 2y agoI know that it's not in the cards (yet), but I hope the UK and the EU can be a single market again (even if the UK does not rejoin the EU). Let's make our market as large and attractive as possible! We love the UK and you are part of the European family :hugs:.
- ChocolateGod 2y agoWhilst a good idea, no politician is going to try and do it under the fear of reigniting the Brexit argument which ends up dominating politics in the country.
- microtonal 2y agoYeah, that's why I don't think it's in the cards yet. On the other hand, things are very fluid now. Things that were unthinkable two months ago (e.g. Germany ending the 'debt brake') are happening now.
- FirmwareBurner 2y ago>Germany ending the 'debt brake') are happening now. Now what exactly they're goanna do with the extra debt is the question. More debt to fund innovation, infrastructure, defense, education and healthcare is welcome, but if it's just more debt to fund welfare and pensions, like Southern Europe, then nothing will improve.
- Tarsul 2y agoThey will change the paragraphs only wrt infrastructure, defense (and possibly climate things to get the votes of the greens). Meaning that the debt brake will still exist for all other things, basically. (but yes: creative bookkeeping will become easier ;))
- pjc50 2y agoIt's to fund re-armament.
- FirmwareBurner 2y agoThe other question is why did Germany/EU disarm in the first place when the US didn't, despite not living next-dorr to Russia?
- pjc50 2y agoThe US did disarm somewhat after the Cold War, but kept a lot in place for pork-barrel reasons and then the absolutely huge waste of money that was the War On Terror. People believed the "end of history" narratives about Russia, and even that it would become like the rest of the ex-communist states, a normal part of liberal Europe. That should have changed after 2014, but by then the grip of the financial crisis was preventing any increases in state spending.
- kergonath 2y ago> Let's make our market as large and attractive as possible! That would be the rational and sensible solution. This may be why it’s unlikely to happen. I would be happy to be wrong.
- wouldbecouldbe 2y agoIf only it was so simple, there are of course many conflicting interests in Europe, with certain countries who are more export oriented for instance benefiting from a weak Euro and others from a stronger Euro etc.
- actionfromafar 2y agoBut the EU is a single market.
- FirmwareBurner 2y agoA single one on paper but a heavily divided one in practice where every country wants to be king or at least backstab everyone else to get what it wants.
- ffsm8 2y agoI sometimes wish we could abolish our nations and replace the current treaties with a voluntary merge of all participating countries, making everyone simply citizens, throwing out all national law books and replacing it with a single Continental one. Won't happen without a war - so hopefully not within my lifetime, but playing make believe is fun sometimes.
- FirmwareBurner 2y agoHow would a war in Europe unite people under one leadership? See the regions that have been ceded and annexed post WW1 and post WW2, they still have beef with the new host countries bickering about regional autonomy. You can conquer land, but conquering people is a lot more difficult.
- Keyframe 2y agoThank you for including the UK, we are still part of Europe! We're all living in Only fools and horses anyways.
- ethan_smith 2y agoTotally agree! The UK will always be part of Europe culturally, no matter what political changes happen. Only Fools and Horses is such a classic - I think every European country has their own version of Del Boy trying to make it big with crazy schemes! Those cultural connections don't just disappear because of politics.
- matt-p 2y agoI'd love to use this, but notice it's hosted in the EU, is there any way of ensuring we go through UK servers only?
- albertgoeswoof 2y agoOur infra is split across France (our API, database, inbound servers etc.), Germany (backups) and UK (outbound SMTP servers). Unfortunately we haven't seen enough demand in the UK to set up a UK only infra (nor are there any UK cloud providers that would work for us?)
- matt-p 2y agoThat's a shame. There are many UK cloud providers, who would work - what do you need, I'd be happy to make suggestions?
- albertgoeswoof 2y agoContainers IaaS, plus managed Postgres. So far I’ve only found UK hosts that do VPS, VMs, or bare metal- the abstraction above this is (heroku, fly.io etc.) makes Ops 10x easier for smaller companies
- matt-p 2y agoCivo.io have had both for many years and for Katapult.io these are coming in April. Both are british companies, if you need referring feel free to shout.
- drcongo 2y agoThanks for these recommendations - both of these look like the sort of thing I've been looking for and failing to find for several weeks. And @albertgoeswoof - pretty sure we'll be gradually moving a lot of clients over to you soon too.
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- noneeeed 2y agoPerfect timing. I've been working on a little side project which is getting close to actually being done. Being able to use at least one non-US company for it will be great.
- noneeeed 2y agoWho do you host with btw? I'd love to avoid the big US SaaS providers if I can but would like something a level above a VPS, especially for database.
- albertgoeswoof 2y agoClever cloud for containers and database (French)
- noneeeed 2y agoGreat, thanks I will have to check them out. A UK firm would be perfect as a brit, but just not-US is great.
- tuco86 2y agohetzner has been working great the last 10 years for me. they opened datacenters in the us too.