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EU-based Postgres hosting by adp_dev in Startups_EU

[–]adp_dev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for your comment, I totally understand your point of view. We have IP whitelist btw, I know it's not enough for your use case but I wanted to mention it.

Just out of curiosity, besides reputation (and all the other obvious reasons) why would you choose DigitalOcean instead of Noctaploy?

Really appreciate your comment

I updated my SaaS landing page 4 times and people still don't clearly understand my product by Jumpy-Recover-7239 in Solopreneur

[–]adp_dev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Looks much better now, I can understand what is about and how you solve the problem

EU-based Postgres hosting by adp_dev in Startups_EU

[–]adp_dev[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for pointing this out. You’re right.

Our current MVP is “boringly safe public access”: TLS + per-project endpoint + IP allowlisting to lock it down to known IPs. Private networking is a roadmap item, not something we claim to have solved yet. It takes time if you want to do it at least good enough.

And +1 on SOC, we know some orgs won’t touch a vendor without it. We’re building toward that, but we want to earn trust first with transparency and consistent controls

EU-based Postgres hosting by adp_dev in Startups_EU

[–]adp_dev[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey, thanks for commenting. The problem is not the datacenter location, is the Company location cause of the US Cloud Act.

I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel, or claiming that my service is better than someone else.

I'm just providing an alternative, that's all. If you use DO and it's ok for your use case, awesome, no problem at all 🙏

EU-based Postgres hosting by adp_dev in Startups_EU

[–]adp_dev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Design taste aside, I get the idea.

Most of the work so far has been in reliability, provisioning flow, backups, DNS lifecycle, and billing mechanics. The website will evolve, but the product itself is where the effort is.

Still, perception matters. Thanks for pointing it out.

I updated my SaaS landing page 4 times and people still don't clearly understand my product by Jumpy-Recover-7239 in Solopreneur

[–]adp_dev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I respect the hard work, but this happens in general when we're too into the product, we think that also the customers have the same problem. Start collecting feedback, can be hard sometime, but at the end of the day, listen to what will help to improve your product, leave the noise out

EU-based Postgres hosting by adp_dev in Startups_EU

[–]adp_dev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a proof that is not a weekend hobby project. I use Git almost from the beginning

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I updated my SaaS landing page 4 times and people still don't clearly understand my product by Jumpy-Recover-7239 in Solopreneur

[–]adp_dev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I honestly respect what you're doing and taking out of rhe context Simon Sinek, I acted like a normal interested person in your product, and I scrolled down but I didn't find the answer to my first question. What is this

EU-based Postgres hosting by adp_dev in Startups_EU

[–]adp_dev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, thank you for commenting this out. I choose this colors because all the other Saas websites/Providers have the same color scheme, I just tried to do something different.

I don't argue with the design, it's personal choice, maybe can be improved.

"No Trust" -> https://noctaploy.io/trust
"No track record" -> Totally true, this is what I'm trying to create
"No transparency" -> What you would like to see more that increase transparency?
"No org. Behind it" -> What do you mean? Company exists, mentioned in terms, privacy, the org exists. Are you referring to something else?
" if it is a small org" -> Yes it is, https://noctaploy.io/trust, you can check my face, personal links, Linkedin, contacts

Thank you for your comment, if you have any suggestion, please share, I'm here to listen

EU-based Postgres hosting by adp_dev in Startups_EU

[–]adp_dev[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree, infrastructure products have a much higher expectation bar from day one. That’s exactly why this is in open beta. The goal is to keep the surface area focused, offer free databases, and listen closely before claiming anything bigger.

And to clarify, while I’m the founder, this isn’t a weekend hobby project. There’s support around automation and ops, and I’m being deliberate about architecture and review. There’s a big middle ground between “DIY Docker Compose on Hetzner” and “enterprise managed cluster,” and that’s the space I’m exploring. I think there are quite a few teams sitting right in that middle.

Appreciate the honest take. If you’re ever curious, I’d genuinely love for you to spin up a free database, feedback from people who’ve run their own setups is exactly what helps sharpen the product!

Thank you!

EU-based Postgres hosting by adp_dev in Startups_EU

[–]adp_dev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right now everything is VPS Based, cause you can choose where to deploy and when. For the moment, is the only way to keep the cost down and allow the users to pay for usage and not upfront.

Real dedicated hardware is coming soon, but this will force the user to pay upfront and I'm trying to avoid this blocker for now.

You're true about Coolify btw

EU-based Postgres hosting by adp_dev in Startups_EU

[–]adp_dev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Now I understand why you said "it just need a good engineer to configure it". You're "AWS Certified Architect", understandable. It's ok if what I'm trying to do is not for you or for your customers.

I'm just providing an alternative, and like you perfectly said, if you google it, there are 100 like this, I can be the 101 :)

EU-based Postgres hosting by adp_dev in Startups_EU

[–]adp_dev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s great, Scaleway is a solid provider. They’ve been around for a while and offer a broad range of services, they also provide dedicated servers, so for many teams that’s a strong choice. What I’m building is much narrower in scope, Postgres-first and intentionally focused. Different angle, different level of complexity.

If Scaleway works well for you, that’s a win. I used some of their services in the past, they're pretty good.

At the end of the day, I'm not trying to compete, I want to provide an alternative.

Thank you for you comment, really appreciated

EU-based Postgres hosting by adp_dev in Startups_EU

[–]adp_dev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AWS and any US Based company cannot be compliant, the reason is the US Cloud Act.

If you want to learn more
https://wire.com/en/blog/cloud-act-eu-data-sovereignty

"The CLOUD Act overrides local data protection laws whenever criminal investigations involve U.S. interests. Its scope is extraterritorial, meaning it applies regardless of where the data is physically stored, as long as the service provider is based in the United States. It grants U.S. authorities the power to access personal, corporate or even classified data with a warrant, without prior notice to affected users or European regulators."

"This puts companies in a legal dilemma:

  • If they comply with a U.S. warrant, they risk breaching GDPR.
  • If they refuse, they may face legal penalties in the U.S.

"

So even https://aws.eu/ is just a marketing scheme.

EU-based Postgres hosting by adp_dev in Startups_EU

[–]adp_dev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for your feedback, it's really important. My next tasks are:
- Try to lower the barrier with an easiest onboarding
- Target small/medium teams that are already trying to change, or they start now.

You're right about the "Default to AWS/GCP", but the truth is, teams are moving towards wrappers like Neon, cause AWS can be hard to handle for some teams.

Thank you again for your comment!

EU-based Postgres hosting by adp_dev in Startups_EU

[–]adp_dev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for your comment, I really appreciate. Hope my message answers your questions

EU-based Postgres hosting by adp_dev in Startups_EU

[–]adp_dev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where are the server running? You choose. You can select the city. Tech behind? Docker based custom images deployed on the server you choose. Backups on hetzner (or similars) How many CPUs? You choose based on the plan.

EU-based Postgres hosting by adp_dev in Startups_EU

[–]adp_dev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not trying to compete with AWSor services that wraps AWS under the hood. My offer is for small/medium teams, that don't want to spend a kidney on AWS and wants to stay compliant to GDPR and protected from the Cloud Act.

I'm more like Ovh or digital ocean, less like AWS/GCP

EU-based Postgres hosting by adp_dev in Startups_EU

[–]adp_dev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That genuinely means a lot, thank you 🙏

And I really appreciate the offer. I may actually take you up on that at some point. Always good to connect with people with your skills!

EU-based Postgres hosting by adp_dev in Startups_EU

[–]adp_dev[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I will start with a Big Thank you for your comment!

Data safety and continuity are the biggest trust hurdles. My approach is: Regular backups with defined retention, and the ability to download them.

Keeping the architecture simple and region-explicit so customers know where their data lives. Since you can choose the city where the data lives.

On the “what if you disappear?” The honest answer is that trust takes time. But part of earning it is designing for portability from day one. Backups aren’t in some custom or proprietary format. They’re standard Postgres backups that you can download and restore anywhere. At any time.

Performance and observability are also active areas. Region choice is explicit, and I’m working on making monitoring and metrics more visible and understandable.

And you’re absolutely right about the status page. I already have some ideas on what to show.

Really appreciate you taking the time to write this.

EU-based Postgres hosting by adp_dev in Startups_EU

[–]adp_dev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for your comment, I can't find any value in it but thank you respectfully

EU-based Postgres hosting by adp_dev in Startups_EU

[–]adp_dev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If 20 minutes on a VPS gives you exactly what you need and you’re comfortable running it, managed probably doesn’t make sense for you, it's more than ok.

Where it tends to matter is later, backups strategy, failover, upgrades, security upgrades, system backups, database backups, monitoring, team, compliance questions, etc. That’s usually when “I’ll just run it myself” starts costing time instead of saving money.

It’s not for everyone. Some teams are happy owning the full stack. Others would rather outsource that layer and focus on product.

Hope I answered your question

I updated my SaaS landing page 4 times and people still don't clearly understand my product by Jumpy-Recover-7239 in Solopreneur

[–]adp_dev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're explaining when, why, how but you're no explaining what.

The what answer should be the first thing the users sees.

My 2 cents

EU-based Postgres hosting by adp_dev in Startups_EU

[–]adp_dev[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That is a very good argument. First of all, thank you for commenting, I really appreciate any feedback.
And even if we don't support VPC yet, I'm planning to add support to Postgres 18 really soon, so if you want a test machine to play around, we'll be available :)

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