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.
Putting the “government” on the cloud might be the single dumbest idea I have ever heard. Who thought that was a good idea?
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.
massive step in the right direction. it was dumb all along to trust so much to the most murderous empire in existence.
indeed
it never was…
https://lemmy.world/c/selfhosted for personal use
Hetzner and Akamai for production
Thank goodness I just started moving my stuff to Nextcloud.
As always, Bert is right. This has to stop.
Inertia, cheapness and laziness. Europe needs to develop its own IT infrastructure.
Not even that cheap. It’s lock in, right? Cloud starts off cheap, gets expensive.
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?
