[bittermandel]

I didn't expect the comments in here to be so negative.

It's a decent service in itself and a good alternative to many other traditional VM-based hosting companies, which Europe is absolutely full of. They are not really competing with the hyperscalers, nor even Digital Ocean in my opinion, but rather providers that likely sell pre-committed OpenStack clusters and such.

I don't believe they are fully clear of American-owned companies in their entire dependency chain, nor do I believe that it's possible to do that today. Companies like Equinix provide a damn good solution for homogenized infrastructure that is invaluable for cloud providers.

[diggan]

> I didn't expect the comments in here to be so negative.

Wait until the US properly wakes up and you'll see what negative can be on HN :)

> nor do I believe that it's possible to do that today.

Why not? Granted, a lot of the internet infrastructure is maintained by US entities, but it doesn't have to be that way, afaik. I'm fairly sure there are companies doing worse/better in this regard, but at least it's moving in the right direction.

[bittermandel]

We're definitely heading in the right direction!

Our company's biggest remaining problem is finding a reliable IdP that isn't primarily for individuals, self-hosted or based on Active Directory. There are some alternatives, but they are mainly country-specific (like Freja) or not well integrated enough with e.g. OAuth. We've considered at some point to pivot our company to focus on a fully European IdP, as we feel it's a fundamental missing puzzle piece!