"Building a startup entirely on European infrastructure sounds like a nice sovereignty flex right up until you actually try it and realize the real price gets paid in time, tinkering, and slowly unlearning a decade of GitHub muscle memory. That's the takeaway from a blog post published on Friday in which one founder lays out what happened when they decided to ditch the US hyperscalers and piece together a "Made in EU" stack instead."
"Compute ended up running on Hetzner, with Scaleway filling in gaps like email and container registries. Bunny.net handled CDN and edge duties, Nebius provided GPU capacity for AI inference, and German identity outfit Hanko took care of authentication. A long tail of tools - analytics, secrets management, CRM, error tracking - was self-hosted on Kubernetes, with Rancher acting as the control tower."
A startup built a cross-border car parts marketplace using only European infrastructure to keep data in Europe and avoid US hyperscalers. Compute ran on Hetzner while Scaleway covered email and container registries, Bunny.net provided CDN and edge services, Nebius supplied GPU capacity for AI inference, and Hanko handled authentication. Many ancillary services—analytics, secrets management, CRM, error tracking—were self-hosted on Kubernetes with Rancher for control. Self-hosting demanded more time, tinkering, maintenance, and documentation hunting, and required abandoning GitHub-centered habits, while delivering tighter data control and protection from provider pricing or acquisition risks.
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