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Re:Moving away from US cloud services by Skinney on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @05:19AM (#43397207)
> Git repos (it's too difficult)

Sourcehut

> Startpage uses Google's index.

If they have enough users/make enough money, they'll make their own. Ecosia and Qwant (both european search engines) are working together to make their own index.

In any case, even if a european is a proxy for an american service, you need to prove that there is a market for an european equivalent for change to happen.

Re:Moving away from US cloud services by arthurmorgan on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @05:25AM (#43397244)
TIL that Sourcehut is or has been moving to the EU/Netherlands, thanks!
Re:Moving away from US cloud services by bayindirh on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @05:35AM (#43397312)
They have moved to Netherlands. They were planning, but Murphy knocked (kicked?) on the door as a massive DDOS, so they expedited the move, a lot.
Re:Moving away from US cloud services by palotasb on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @06:08AM (#43397568)
> Sourcehut

Is it there yet?

> Notice: sr.ht is currently in alpha, and the quality of the service may reflect that. As such, payment is currently optional for most features, and only encouraged for users who want to support the ongoing development of the site. For a summary of the guarantees and limitations that the alpha entails, see this reference.

– https://sourcehut.org/pricing

Re:Moving away from US cloud services by myaccountonhn on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @06:35AM (#43397764)
I've used it for a few years and it's been stable and without issue. builds.sr.ht is the best CI that I've ever used. I think the only time it has been down has been due to DDOS.

Would I run the git server of a multi-national bank on it? Probably not. A standard SAAS? Yeah if my team felt it was important to use EU companies.

Otherwise you could also self-host with a VM, then you can use gitea or gitolite with systemd oneshot services.

Re:Moving away from US cloud services by Sebb767 on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @06:34AM (#43397759)
> If they have enough users/make enough money, they'll make their own. Ecosia and Qwant (both european search engines) are working together to make their own index.

"There might be an option in the future if there are sufficient users" is a quite different milestone compared to fully switching away from US-based services.

Re:Moving away from US cloud services by benhurmarcel on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @10:50AM (#43400150)
For git there's also Codeberg

https://codeberg.org/

Re:Moving away from US cloud services by xcircle on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @01:04PM (#43401821)
+1 for Codeberg. I switched also to them. Theo habe also an alternative for GitHub Pages