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The bootstrapper's EU stack for under €10 per month

eualternative.eu
226 points·by sparkling·2 tháng trước·84 comments

EU Cloud Comparison Matrix

eualternative.eu
32 points·by sparkling·2 tháng trước·2 comments

Building a SaaS in 2026 Using Only EU Infrastructure

eualternative.eu
194 points·by sparkling·3 tháng trước·62 comments

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sparkling
·9 ngày trước·discuss
Thank you, this is the type of hands-on experience report i was looking for.
sparkling
·10 ngày trước·discuss
How has your experience been so far? Did you previously use Opus? Im curious how the overall "feel" of it is.
sparkling
·10 ngày trước·discuss
What is your motivation? Privacy and/or data protection?

I currently don't see a world where it makes sense to run a local model that will eats up 60% of my RAM, 20-30% of my disk space while providing worse quality output than a $20/month subscription.
sparkling
·10 ngày trước·discuss
>Our testing confirmed that many less capable models—including Claude Opus 4.8, GPT-5.5, and Kimi K2.7—could identify the same vulnerabilities as Fable 5 did in the report.

That is nice advertising for Kimi, huh?
sparkling
·11 ngày trước·discuss
DNS4EU have also blocked archive.today in the past. I i remember correctly, they claimed it was part of some automated malware-protection system. So i would give them the benefit of the doubt on this one.

In any case, plenty of other free EU DNS services available: https://eualternative.eu/categories/public-dns/
sparkling
·16 ngày trước·discuss
Harley Benton is "extremly popular"? I don't think so and the upper price ceiling for HB seems to be at ~400-500 USD right now. Decent hardware for anyone just starting out with their first instrument, sure, but i never heard of anyone buying a HB as a second or third guitar.
sparkling
·16 ngày trước·discuss
502 Bad Gateway, the HN kiss of death

Archive.org link: https://web.archive.org/web/20260624025836/https://www.thoma...
sparkling
·16 ngày trước·discuss
Both parties having a VAT ID is actually a requirement to be able to use reverse charge: https://vatdb.com/reverse-charge/
sparkling
·17 ngày trước·discuss
The Hetzner price increase was brutal, but the reality is: Hetzner VPS prices are still a fraction of comparable AWS EC2 instances.

>many European companies aren't as competitive as their US counterpart.

I don't think any serious Enterprise account would go with Hetzner today, the service range and depth is simply not comparable to the 3 big clouds. Saving $20 on a VPS is not going to be a deciding factor for Enterprise accounts, they want mature, manage services.

The few EU clouds that do have a comparable range of managed services also have AWS-like pricing: https://eualternative.eu/eu-cloud-comparison/
sparkling
·17 ngày trước·discuss
They have a $1 minimum spend across all services. You can effectively host unlimited static sites for $1.
sparkling
·18 ngày trước·discuss
Dual-booting SteamOS for gaming and some regular Distro for daily work would be neat.
sparkling
·23 ngày trước·discuss
Post once, read never
sparkling
·23 ngày trước·discuss
Super shady.

The german public broadcaster gave them a 5 minute feature on yesterdays evening news, that felt more like a paid ad than journalism. The report made it sound like it is some kind of semi-official EU-endorsed project, but its just... a closed source, for-profit social network? I guess the folks behind it are just well connected in Brussels.

Thank you but no thank you.
sparkling
·24 ngày trước·discuss
Even if i had such a machine, im not sure i would be willing to sacrifice 80% of my RAM and 50% of my disk to run a semi-okay model locally.
sparkling
·tháng trước·discuss
That may be true, but the Irish corporate entity (Stripe Payments International Holdings Ltd.) is ultimately owned by Stripe, Inc. in the U.S.

If you are looking for payment processors that are ultimately owned and incorporated in the EU: https://eualternative.eu/categories/payments/
sparkling
·tháng trước·discuss
>llms.txt is supported by 0 of the relevant ai providers

True, but it serves a other purpose, especially when the website is offering developer-oriented services. It's a single link you can give your AI agent and ask to "read this, understand it does, implement it".

Sure, you could just point it at docs.<service>.com but there might be bot protection, authentication, JS-heavy content etc.

So i feel llms.txt still has a purpose.
sparkling
·2 tháng trước·discuss
Its unfortunate you didn't go for a EU-native stack right away. Bunny.net offers similar compute/serverless on the edge, close to Cloudflares offerings.
sparkling
·2 tháng trước·discuss
My first impression was "oh no, not another generic, vibe-coded service clone". But this is actually really good stuff under hood, and it's clearly coming from someone who has a deep understanding of networking.

Nice work, good luck.
sparkling
·2 tháng trước·discuss
As someone who has never owned a iPhone... what is the appeal of using iMessage? What can iMessage do that SMS/RCS can not do? Apart from the fancy iPhone-to-Mac handoff features i've seen folks use ;)
sparkling
·2 tháng trước·discuss
Regardless of the ToS violation... isn't this trivial to detect?

Even if they keep the message volume low, detecting a swarm of accounts that are sending duplicate/similar messages seems rather trivial? The entire business model depends on Apple turning a blind eye, i'm quite amazed they got any VC money at all.