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I can recommend:

* Hetzner.de for servers (I've been using their physical servers for many years now, incredible performance per € spent)

* Fernand as your CRM, it's smooth and nice and so much better and faster than all the zendesks and freshdesks it's not even funny. (https://getfernand.com/)

* AISLER if you design electronics and need to make PCBs (https://aisler.net/)

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Thanks, just a note that by "CRM" people typically think of Sales (Salesforce, Hubspot etc), not Support (zendesks and freshdesks).

Ehm sorry but no. CRM stands for Customer Relationship Management so … a support ticket is, by definition, a customer relationship event.

Salesforce spending millions to conflate “CRM” with “sales pipeline” was just marketing.

Also, Zendesk calls itself a CRM. Freshdesk’s parent is literally named Freshworks CRM. Gartner and Forrester have always put support under the CRM umbrella.

I just noted how people typically think, based on my experience in the area. :shrug:

PS: By the way, "Can Zendesk be used as a CRM?": https://www.zendesk.co.uk/blog/can-zendesk-be-used-as-a-crm/

Hmm… In my mind "CRM" is "Customer Relationship Management", and I use Fernand to manage relationships with my customers :-)

I like that German company offers Blitz service. Tempted to order something from the UK.

You do pay import tax, plus admin fee to the carrier - or did last time I ordered. But factoring it in its still a great deal.

That's fine. Same from China etc.

AISLER are AMAZING at printing boards, but sadly are very very expensive for assembly.

Love them though.

Scaleway for cloud: great UI, CLI, Terraform. Like you’ve never left Azure.

>great

>like you’ve never left Azure

hmmmmmm

Ok, so this shows how bad I am at marketing. I forgot to mention my own service, if you are building electronics: PartsBox, https://partsbox.com/ (insert facepalm emoji here)

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