Ask HN: European alternative to Vercel/Cloudflare for hosting

Posted by vldszn 2 days ago

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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?

Comments

Comment by ChrisArchitect 2 days ago

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

Comment by vldszn 2 days ago

thank you

Comment by gethly 4 hours ago

CDN - Bunny CDN is from Slovenia

Hosting - literally gazzilion of choices.

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

Comment by winstonwinston 2 days ago

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

Comment by vldszn 2 days ago

Never heard about Scaleway tbh. Thank you. Will take a look

Comment by corvad 2 days 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.

Comment by crote 1 day 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.

Comment by rschachte 1 day 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

Comment by vldszn 1 day 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.

Comment by vldszn 2 days ago

Yeah, agree. Thanks for your answer

Comment by pojntfx 1 day ago

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

No functions though!

Comment by vldszn 1 day ago

Looking good!

Comment by peterspath 2 days ago

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

Comment by Stoo 10 hours ago

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

Comment by vldszn 2 days ago

Awesome, thank you