Ask HN: European alternative to Vercel/Cloudflare for hosting

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?

11 points | by vldszn 1 day ago

5 comments

  • winstonwinston 1 day ago
    If you are looking for serverless compute (aws lambda, cf workers), I know of Scaleway in europe.
    • vldszn 1 day ago
      Never heard about Scaleway tbh. Thank you. Will take a look
  • corvad 1 day 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.
    • 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.

      • rschachte 19 hours 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
        • vldszn 17 hours 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.
    • vldszn 1 day ago
      Yeah, agree. Thanks for your answer
  • pojntfx 1 day ago
    "statichost" is neat: https://www.statichost.eu/

    No functions though!

    • vldszn 20 hours ago
      Looking good!
  • ChrisArchitect 1 day ago
  • peterspath 1 day ago
    also take a look at https://bunny.net
    • vldszn 1 day ago
      Awesome, thank you