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Cloud hosting in EU

Posted by Bwerf (edited )

Hi!

I've decided to move some of my selfhosted things from on-prem (at home ;)) to the cloud, and at the same time I'd like to try and run this in EU, or at least europe. I'd like to get started fairly quickly as this was prompted by one of my home servers halfway dying on me.

The features I'm most interested in are approximately:

  • Virtual machines.
  • Storage. Cheap long term for backups (similar to S3 Glacier).
  • Managed DB, most likely postgresql.
  • Serverless jobs (similar to AWS lambda).
  • IaaS (I've got a bit of experience with terraform, but it doesn't have to be that).
  • Builtin monitoring.
  • Git hosting, it's likely that I'll just go with github/gitlab here, but if there's a nice alternative I'm up for it.
  • Automated sending of email. I'm using AWS SES atm, and I'm very happy with it.

Some other things:

  • I intend to run a combination of services written by others, e.g. nextcloud and software I've written myself.
  • I'll most likely be running linux only, but I prefer to select my own flavour where it makes sense.
  • I much prefer managing permissions and users in gcp than in aws as I find aws way too complicated for my needs while gcp mostly just makes sense.
  • I'd prefer a platform that's being developed and improving over time with big potential for the future.
  • This is a hobby project, and some of these requirements may seem a bit contradictory or non-optimal, but that's ok.
  • I have some experience running kubernetes (self-hosted), and I'm not a huge fan of the complexity and yaml files, at the same time OpenStack is getting kinda old, and I don't know if I think it's a platform for the future. But from what I see most of the options seems to be built on top of one of those.
  • Cheaper is of course better, I don't have a company-sized budget, this is all coming out of my "hobby pocket".
  • I live in Sweden, so datacenters geographically close is a plus.

Right now I'm looking at European alternatives to Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Scaleway is looking the most promising, but I'm really skimming the top when it comes to info atm.

Hope that makes sense =) I'm interested in all kinds of feedback.

2 comments

  1. Protected
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    For what it's worth, I had a dedibox server for several years and while I was with them the bandwidth slowly morphed into the most oversold unusable piece of garbage, especially for users...

    For what it's worth, I had a dedibox server for several years and while I was with them the bandwidth slowly morphed into the most oversold unusable piece of garbage, especially for users connecting from central europe. They weren't providing anywhere near the bandwidth I contracted, and I eventually noticed there was absolutely no mention of said contracted limit anywhere in their user area, messages, etc.

    Hetzner also had poor connectivity when I used them but I believe they have improved since. I'm not sure about the nitty gritty of cloud offering comparisons though.

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  2. tomf
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    if you haven't already, you might as well claim your free service from Oracle [guide] -- you get 200gb storage, 24gb ram, and 4 cores, I think. I run two -- a small one and a big one. If you give...

    if you haven't already, you might as well claim your free service from Oracle [guide] -- you get 200gb storage, 24gb ram, and 4 cores, I think. I run two -- a small one and a big one. If you give them a credit card, its still free, but you dont have to worry about regional availability.

    One note: once you pick your region, you're locked in for life and they're really good about preventing people from having multiple accounts.

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