I nearly started moving the wikis I host to #Hetzner, but at the last minute realised that there's no object storage in their Singapore datacentre. So I guess I'm sticking with #DigitalOcean (in Sydney) for now.
Multiple Digital Ocean services down
https://status.digitalocean.com/incidents/lgt5xs2843rx
#HackerNews #DigitalOcean #Outage #ServicesDown #StatusUpdate #CloudServices
Thinking about moving off Vercel? 🚀
I wrote a deep-dive guide on the best hosting alternatives for web devs in 2025 — costs, trade-offs, and my real migration lessons.
👉 https://dropletdrift.com/the-best-vercel-hosting-alternatives-for-web-developers/
#webdev #developer #coding #programming #javascript #nextjs #react #frontend #backend #fullstack #hosting #cloud #serverless #opensource #startup #software #tech #devlife #digitalocean #netlify #vercel #render #flyio #aws #gcp #azure #paas #saas #infrastructure #deployment #docker
What would it cost to run the #fediverse at scale? With billions instead of millions of users?
What does it cost to run a social network anyway? According to the annual reports of two companies that should know, the comparable seems to be about $1-$2 per user per month. And that's after stripping out a bunch of costs, like us not building ad tech in the fediverse.
Have better numbers? I'd love to see them!
From a recent talk of mine: https://spectra.video/w/k1rVULikPRfavCZ3WhXMgg
@j12t I’m paying $9/month for my #DigitalOcean droplet and extra disk space. (One user - me)
But I could scale to many more users without additional costs…
But I could scale to many more users without additional costs…
All Europeans 🇪🇺
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Hey tech friends. I'm wondering about alternatives to stripe, specifically to stripe connect for split payouts. Anybody have any opinions about these European alternatives? https://european-alternatives.eu/alternative-to/stripe
I see others like these but many of them have U.S. headquarters. https://tipalti.com/resources/learn/stripe-competitors-and-alternatives/
edit/added couple more tags for visibility.
#stripe #payments#eu#europe #europeanalternatives #tech#saas #startup #software#cloud #aws #gcp #digitalocean
Hey tech friends. I'm wondering about alternatives to stripe, specifically to stripe connect for split payouts. Anybody have any opinions about these European alternatives? https://european-alternatives.eu/alternative-to/stripe
I see others like these but many of them have U.S. headquarters. https://tipalti.com/resources/learn/stripe-competitors-and-alternatives/
edit/added couple more tags for visibility.
#stripe #payments#eu#europe #europeanalternatives #tech#saas #startup #software#cloud #aws #gcp #digitalocean