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Ask HN: European alternative to Vercel/Cloudflare for hosting

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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?

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

thank you

that website is quite dead though.

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

Awesome, thank you

I'm hosting some static sites on Bunny and I've found their service to be superb.

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.

Yeah, agree. Thanks for your answer

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

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.

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.

"statichost" is neat: https://www.statichost.eu/

No functions though!

Looking good!

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

CDN - Bunny CDN is from Slovenia

Hosting - literally gazzilion of choices.

CF pages/workers - i don't know what that is.

Also CDN77 from CZ.

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