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Ask HN: European alternative to Vercel/Cloudflare for hosting

13 points by vldszn 9mo ago

Hi, I’m looking for a hosting/CDN solution that’s similar to Vercel or Cloudflare Pages/Workers, but based in Europe. Any recommendations or experiences with European providers?

corvad 9mo ago
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.
- vldszn 9mo ago
  Yeah, agree. Thanks for your answer
- crote 9mo ago
  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.
  - rschachte 9mo ago
    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
    - vldszn 9mo ago
      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.
    - glaucon 9mo ago
      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.
      - mcsniff 9mo ago
        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.
ChrisArchitect 9mo ago
European Alternatives https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46731976 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46731976
- vldszn 9mo ago
  thank you
  - gethly 9mo ago
    that website is quite dead though.
winstonwinston 9mo ago
If you are looking for serverless compute (aws lambda, cf workers), I know of Scaleway in europe.
- vldszn 9mo ago
  Never heard about Scaleway tbh. Thank you. Will take a look
peterspath 9mo ago
also take a look at https://bunny.net https://bunny.net
- vldszn 9mo ago
  Awesome, thank you
- Stoo 9mo ago
  I'm hosting some static sites on Bunny and I've found their service to be superb.
pojntfx 9mo ago
"statichost" is neat: https://www.statichost.eu/ https://www.statichost.eu/ No functions though!
- vldszn 9mo ago
  Looking good!
gethly 9mo ago
CDN - Bunny CDN is from Slovenia Hosting - literally gazzilion of choices. CF pages/workers - i don't know what that is.
- gethly 9mo ago
  Also CDN77 from CZ.
mcb_software 9mo ago
Hetzner has a very good reputation and a long history, but nothing like Serverless Runtime.

13 points by vldszn 9mo ago

Hi, I’m looking for a hosting/CDN solution that’s similar to Vercel or Cloudflare Pages/Workers, but based in Europe. Any recommendations or experiences with European providers?

corvad 9mo ago

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.

vldszn 9mo ago
Yeah, agree. Thanks for your answer
crote 9mo ago
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.
- rschachte 9mo ago
  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
  - vldszn 9mo ago
    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.
  - glaucon 9mo ago
    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.
    - mcsniff 9mo ago
      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.

ChrisArchitect 9mo ago

European Alternatives https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46731976 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46731976

vldszn 9mo ago
thank you
- gethly 9mo ago
  that website is quite dead though.

winstonwinston 9mo ago

If you are looking for serverless compute (aws lambda, cf workers), I know of Scaleway in europe.

vldszn 9mo ago
Never heard about Scaleway tbh. Thank you. Will take a look

peterspath 9mo ago

also take a look at https://bunny.net https://bunny.net

vldszn 9mo ago
Awesome, thank you
Stoo 9mo ago
I'm hosting some static sites on Bunny and I've found their service to be superb.

pojntfx 9mo ago

"statichost" is neat: https://www.statichost.eu/ https://www.statichost.eu/ No functions though!

vldszn 9mo ago
Looking good!

gethly 9mo ago

CDN - Bunny CDN is from Slovenia Hosting - literally gazzilion of choices. CF pages/workers - i don't know what that is.

gethly 9mo ago
Also CDN77 from CZ.

mcb_software 9mo ago

Hetzner has a very good reputation and a long history, but nothing like Serverless Runtime.