<a href="https://european-alternatives.eu/about" rel="nofollow">https://european-alternatives.eu/about</a><p>---<p>Conditions for a listing<p>All the products and services listed on European Alternatives meet the following criteria:<p>The company is based in an EU, EEA, EFTA, or DCFTA member country.<p>If the company has a parent or holding company, this company is also based in an EU, EEA, EFTA, or DCFTA member state.<p>For hosting providers: It is not allowed that a hosting provider is simply a sub-hosting provider of a company that is not based in an EU or EFTA member country.
Example: Hosting provider that just configures servers on AWS.
I wonder if Rackray <a href="https://www.rackray.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.rackray.com/</a> or Time4VPS <a href="https://www.time4vps.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.time4vps.com/</a> would qualify under the VPS provider category (they're in Lithuania).<p>I've been using Time4VPS for a few years at this point, they've always been pretty decent. That said, they have been gradually rising prices and I think that something like Hetzner is more affordable at this point. Well, either that or Contabo for the cases where I just need a box that has enough RAM and don't do anything super CPU intensive. Scaleway also used to be competitive with them price-wise, but I don't think that's been the case for a while, it'd have to be more of a feature based comparison.<p>I think there's a bunch of smaller companies in the Baltics as well, but maybe that'd make the list quite long and many of them seem to focus on local services mostly (nano.lv for hosting comes to mind).<p>Either way, really cool site, I'm glad that this exists!
I can only speak positively of Hetzner. I particularly like that they have a Terraform provider.<p>I've only used them for personal projects, though, so I can't say anything to the suitability in a corporate environment. In particular their support. That's quite an important factor when working in a corporate setting.<p>I wish they already had that S3-like service they've announced for some time. It would be really handy.
my two cents:<p>Avoid using Tuta, I am talking as a person with more than 4 years experience using their product. Its search extremely bad, UI is so simple and everything is unnecessarily big, not event possibility to add any label.<p>They barely improved their product within my >4 years of usage. I have already migrated most stuff to another mail provider.
A list of search engines I haven't known before:<p><a href="https://european-alternatives.eu/category/search-engines" rel="nofollow">https://european-alternatives.eu/category/search-engines</a>
I have an European alternative, my own iron in my own home, it's European since I'm an EU citizen living in the EU...<p>The alternative to the modern computing is the classic iron ownership instead of living on the shoulder of giants, otherwise there is no difference between a US company and an EU one selling the same services. They are both third party whose job is making money for their shareholders.<p>"But.... HW cost money!", yes, because someone else computers are notoriously free... <a href="https://tech.ahrefs.com/how-ahrefs-gets-a-billion-dollar-worth-infrastructure-with-a-90-discount-5edd473b2399" rel="nofollow">https://tech.ahrefs.com/how-ahrefs-gets-a-billion-dollar-wor...</a> and of course owned hw is not a asset with an eventual resale value and a vast series of possibilities if a startup idea fail...<p>Oh, yes, bandwidth might be tricky but co-location until a company is large enough to pay a personal proper link it's still an option, on their own hw.<p>Dear devs startuppers where the recliner is the most valuable owned asset you have, it's about time to recalculate your economy.......
These all appear to be hosting-type services. Is there a similar list that's more consumer-oriented? Or are there zero alternative social network platforms?
In GitHub alternatives it shows <a href="https://gitlabhost.com/" rel="nofollow">https://gitlabhost.com/</a>. Does anyone knows how copyright works when a different company uses GitLab name and offers competitive hosting to GitLab itself?
The second point, VAT refund, is moot.<p>In Europe you pay VAT, and as a company, you get to as a refund on the VAT.<p>But if, as a European company, you buy a service in the USA, you don't pay VAT. So no refunds to ask.
Avoid to sympathize for companies based on non-competitive parameters, they aren't your friends or do anything for you regardless of where they are, don't choose them for reasons like "Oh they pay taxes where you are so it will come back", chances are, they're not even paying taxes
It seems incredibly petty to me to exclude UK companies from this list. We left, yeah ok. But this says European alternatives and we're in Europe as far as I'm aware.GDPR is enshrined in law and we've a EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement.<p>You're missing out on a massive plethora of services, London's tech industry is one of if not the strongest in Europe.