[BrunoBernardino]

As someone who tries to "buy local", I have been a happy customer of the following recommended services for many months or years:

- Hetzner (Cloud, Box, and Object Storage)

- Brevo (for transactional emails)

- Mollie

For monitoring I use and recommend UpDown.io, which doesn’t seem to be listed there.

[port11]

I think you mean Brevo instead of Brave? Previously known by the (much better) name SendInBlue.

[BrunoBernardino]

Yes, thank you! It’s so annoying how frequently that typo gets me, and my brain just skips over it. I’ve updated it above. And I also preferred SendInBlue!

[port11]

iOS still thinks I really, really mean ‘bexause’ instead of ‘because’, so your typo barely registered.

My only gripe with SIB was terribly low deliverability to Outlook, even with full config.

[sparkling]

After Sendgrid got acquired by Twilio and retired their free plan, i also went with Brevo and am quite happy with it. No deliverability issues on the major email operators (Google, MS365) at all, decent delivery speed.

[chrisweekly]

Fastmail is excellent, FWIW

[BrunoBernardino]

Indeed, but we're talking about transactional/newsletter email providers here, which isn't what Fastmail is for, and beware it's a violation of their terms to use their product for that [1]:

> The Services are not designed for sending automated or transactional emails. It is a violation of these Terms to use the Services to send programmatically generated emails to addresses that are outside your Customer Account.

[1]: https://www.fastmail.com/policies/terms-of-service/

[chrisweekly]

Thanks - great catch. Too late for me to edit my comment.

[stavros]

Not European, but Zoho Zeptomail is cheap as hell and very good. I can definitely recommend it.

[cataflam]

> For monitoring I use and recommend UpDown.io, which doesn’t seem to be listed there.

It doesn't seem very well known, but I've been a happy user. Most of the others have become over-bloated with a shitty UI.