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As someone who tries to "buy local", I have been a happy customer of the following recommended services for many months or years: - Hetzner (Cloud, Box, and Ob

As someone who tries to "buy local", I have been a happy customer of the following recommended services for many months or years: - Hetzner (Cloud, Box, and Object Storage) - Brevo (for transactional emails) - Mollie For monitoring I use and recommend UpDown.io, which doesn’t seem to be listed there.

port11 5mo ago
I think you mean Brevo instead of Brave? Previously known by the (much better) name SendInBlue.
- BrunoBernardino 5mo ago
  Yes, thank you! It’s so annoying how frequently that typo gets me, and my brain just skips over it. I’ve updated it above. And I also preferred SendInBlue!
  - port11 5mo ago
    iOS still thinks I really, really mean ‘bexause’ instead of ‘because’, so your typo barely registered. My only gripe with SIB was terribly low deliverability to Outlook, even with full config.
sparkling 5mo ago
After Sendgrid got acquired by Twilio and retired their free plan, i also went with Brevo and am quite happy with it. No deliverability issues on the major email operators (Google, MS365) at all, decent delivery speed.
- chrisweekly 5mo ago
  Fastmail is excellent, FWIW
  - BrunoBernardino 5mo ago
    Indeed, but we're talking about transactional/newsletter email providers here, which isn't what Fastmail is for, and beware it's a violation of their terms to use their product for that [1]: > The Services are not designed for sending automated or transactional emails. It is a violation of these Terms to use the Services to send programmatically generated emails to addresses that are outside your Customer Account. [1]: https://www.fastmail.com/policies/terms-of-service/ https://www.fastmail.com/policies/terms-of-service/
    - chrisweekly 5mo ago
      Thanks - great catch. Too late for me to edit my comment.
- stavros 5mo ago
  Not European, but Zoho Zeptomail is cheap as hell and very good. I can definitely recommend it.
cataflam 5mo ago
> For monitoring I use and recommend UpDown.io, which doesn’t seem to be listed there. It doesn't seem very well known, but I've been a happy user. Most of the others have become over-bloated with a shitty UI.

port11 5mo ago

I think you mean Brevo instead of Brave? Previously known by the (much better) name SendInBlue.

BrunoBernardino 5mo ago
Yes, thank you! It’s so annoying how frequently that typo gets me, and my brain just skips over it. I’ve updated it above. And I also preferred SendInBlue!
- port11 5mo ago
  iOS still thinks I really, really mean ‘bexause’ instead of ‘because’, so your typo barely registered. My only gripe with SIB was terribly low deliverability to Outlook, even with full config.

sparkling 5mo ago

After Sendgrid got acquired by Twilio and retired their free plan, i also went with Brevo and am quite happy with it. No deliverability issues on the major email operators (Google, MS365) at all, decent delivery speed.

chrisweekly 5mo ago
Fastmail is excellent, FWIW
- BrunoBernardino 5mo ago
  Indeed, but we're talking about transactional/newsletter email providers here, which isn't what Fastmail is for, and beware it's a violation of their terms to use their product for that [1]: > The Services are not designed for sending automated or transactional emails. It is a violation of these Terms to use the Services to send programmatically generated emails to addresses that are outside your Customer Account. [1]: https://www.fastmail.com/policies/terms-of-service/ https://www.fastmail.com/policies/terms-of-service/
  - chrisweekly 5mo ago
    Thanks - great catch. Too late for me to edit my comment.
stavros 5mo ago
Not European, but Zoho Zeptomail is cheap as hell and very good. I can definitely recommend it.

cataflam 5mo ago

> For monitoring I use and recommend UpDown.io, which doesn’t seem to be listed there. It doesn't seem very well known, but I've been a happy user. Most of the others have become over-bloated with a shitty UI.