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Being a European, I’d love to try this. Many businesses operate completely local. I think there is a market for a Europe-only cloud provider. How do I try this

Being a European, I’d love to try this. Many businesses operate completely local. I think there is a market for a Europe-only cloud provider. How do I try this? Do they have a free tier?

liotier 2y ago
Hetzner and OVH are top of mind, Gandi is nice too. Not Amazon-scale, by far, but European companies hosting in Europe with decent service.
- JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B 2y ago
  OVH is a joke (their data center burned because they had wooden roofs), Gandi is no more, and Scaleway gave up. There is no French host anymore. Only Hetzner is left in this business.
  - quentindemetz 2y ago
    Dassault has a cloud offering with 3DS Outscale
  - pestaa 2y ago
    How exactly did Scaleway give up? They keep releasing new cloud and serverless products. There's also IONOS.
  - jononor 2y ago
    OVH is still in business, even if they had a fire 3 years ago. Both AWS and Google have had rather large fires.
  - jamesblonde 2y ago
    OVH is quite good, actually. We are using their K8S offering and S3 to build a service. It works well.
  - liotier 2y ago
    The fire occurred in their old datacenter, built in an era when OVH was aggressively cheap and experimental. It is in no way representative of today's OVH.
monospaced 2y ago
You can sign up on their website: https://www.stackit.de/en/ https://www.stackit.de/en/ While there are no free credits the services are priced pay per use to the minute with a much simpler pricing model than the large hyperscalers like AWS. See prices for EC2 here: https://www.stackit.de/en/pricing/cloud-services/iaas/stackit-compute-engine/ https://www.stackit.de/en/pricing/cloud-services/iaas/stacki... You can find the docs here: https://docs.stackit.cloud/stackit/en/knowledge-base-85301704.html https://docs.stackit.cloud/stackit/en/knowledge-base-8530170...
- Aeolun 2y ago
  Their pricing page is funny. Can I have 2 RAMs please? My physics teacher would get spitting mad at them for not specifying the unit. Of course their billing is also 'hours'. Instead of 'hourly'.
- arianvanp 2y ago
  Note that you need to be Incorporated in Germany, Austria or Switzerland to use it. And they dont allow individuals to open accounts. Only companies. "The European cloud" that doesn't allow sign ups from Europe is extremely ironic. I don't know how they keep getting all this press without actually delivering anything
  - mvanbaak 2y ago
    I came here to state exactly this. As a dutch individual that has 'cloud' high on his CV, I would like to create an account and test this to see if it is something I should invest my time in to make it part of my cv. But ... they won't allow that. Ah well, next!
  - isbvhodnvemrwvn 2y ago
    Lidl got SAP's award for best customer a few years before admitting they have wasted half a billion on SAP implementation. It's the same thing again.
    - sva_ 2y ago
jeffrallen 2y ago
Exoscale has a simple sign up, with a credit of EUR 20 to get you started. (I work there, and my job tomorrow is to get my 2 apprentices new accounts so they can start following the self-paced training in the Exoscale Academy.)
ncruces 2y ago
See also: https://www.scaleway.com/ https://www.scaleway.com/ They have three zones, Paris, Amsterdam and Warsaw. Not sure if they have a free tier, but I still pay about 1€/month for two (really) small instances that I used for testing their service (and kept around for personal stuff).

Being a European, I’d love to try this. Many businesses operate completely local. I think there is a market for a Europe-only cloud provider. How do I try this? Do they have a free tier?

liotier 2y ago

Hetzner and OVH are top of mind, Gandi is nice too. Not Amazon-scale, by far, but European companies hosting in Europe with decent service.

JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B 2y ago
OVH is a joke (their data center burned because they had wooden roofs), Gandi is no more, and Scaleway gave up. There is no French host anymore. Only Hetzner is left in this business.
- quentindemetz 2y ago
  Dassault has a cloud offering with 3DS Outscale
- pestaa 2y ago
  How exactly did Scaleway give up? They keep releasing new cloud and serverless products. There's also IONOS.
- jononor 2y ago
  OVH is still in business, even if they had a fire 3 years ago. Both AWS and Google have had rather large fires.
- jamesblonde 2y ago
  OVH is quite good, actually. We are using their K8S offering and S3 to build a service. It works well.
- liotier 2y ago
  The fire occurred in their old datacenter, built in an era when OVH was aggressively cheap and experimental. It is in no way representative of today's OVH.

monospaced 2y ago

You can sign up on their website: https://www.stackit.de/en/ https://www.stackit.de/en/ While there are no free credits the services are priced pay per use to the minute with a much simpler pricing model than the large hyperscalers like AWS. See prices for EC2 here: https://www.stackit.de/en/pricing/cloud-services/iaas/stackit-compute-engine/ https://www.stackit.de/en/pricing/cloud-services/iaas/stacki... You can find the docs here: https://docs.stackit.cloud/stackit/en/knowledge-base-85301704.html https://docs.stackit.cloud/stackit/en/knowledge-base-8530170...

Aeolun 2y ago
Their pricing page is funny. Can I have 2 RAMs please? My physics teacher would get spitting mad at them for not specifying the unit. Of course their billing is also 'hours'. Instead of 'hourly'.
arianvanp 2y ago
Note that you need to be Incorporated in Germany, Austria or Switzerland to use it. And they dont allow individuals to open accounts. Only companies. "The European cloud" that doesn't allow sign ups from Europe is extremely ironic. I don't know how they keep getting all this press without actually delivering anything
- mvanbaak 2y ago
  I came here to state exactly this. As a dutch individual that has 'cloud' high on his CV, I would like to create an account and test this to see if it is something I should invest my time in to make it part of my cv. But ... they won't allow that. Ah well, next!
- isbvhodnvemrwvn 2y ago
  Lidl got SAP's award for best customer a few years before admitting they have wasted half a billion on SAP implementation. It's the same thing again.
  - sva_ 2y ago

jeffrallen 2y ago

Exoscale has a simple sign up, with a credit of EUR 20 to get you started. (I work there, and my job tomorrow is to get my 2 apprentices new accounts so they can start following the self-paced training in the Exoscale Academy.)

ncruces 2y ago

See also: https://www.scaleway.com/ https://www.scaleway.com/ They have three zones, Paris, Amsterdam and Warsaw. Not sure if they have a free tier, but I still pay about 1€/month for two (really) small instances that I used for testing their service (and kept around for personal stuff).