I agree that recent events have made it unsafe to host anything on a US company’s cloud server.
But I disagree that recent events are the biggest reason not to host anything on Google, AWS, or Microsoft servers. You should have gotten away from them long ago.
You should have gotten away from them long ago.
While I agree, open source technology hadn’t yet fully matured when the NSA leaks first dropped. Something like Owncloud had only recently launched back then.
It never was. Really. Never.
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https://lemmy.world/c/selfhosted for personal use
Hetzner and Akamai for production
The time to develop sovereign digital infrastructure was like a decade ago. Better late than never I guess. Good news is that the only way Europe can do this is by leveraging open source, so maybe we’ll see more support for that going forward.
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indeed
Thank goodness I just started moving my stuff to Nextcloud.
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it never was…
Inertia, cheapness and laziness. Europe needs to develop its own IT infrastructure.
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Cheap on the initial outlay for IT staff and systems. Pay for cloud instead and get locked in like you said.
Say someone uses a Droplet on Digital Ocean. What’s the best EU alternative?
