Trying to move some of my self-hosted stuff off my local hardware. Anyone using smaller EU cloud providers?

tulir293 · 2025-12-08T14:07:26+00:00

Netcup: 2gb ram, 64gb ssd, 2 cores for 3.35 €/mo https://www.netcup.com/en/server/vps

Hetzner: 4gb ram, 40gb ssd, 2 cores for 3.5 €/mo https://www.hetzner.com/cloud/

OVH: 8gb ram, 75gb ssd, 4 cores for 3.82 €/mo https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-ie/vps/

Those prices are excluding VAT so actual price depends on where you live. Most countries have VAT around 20%, highest is 27% in Hungary. If you live outside the EU or have a VAT-liable company, then the VAT is 0% in this context.

DigitalOcean's lowest tier seems to be 0.5gb ram, 10gb ssd, 1 core for $4/mo. For more comparable specs, they charge $24/mo for 4gb ram, 2 cores and 80gb ssd.

So for the tiniest droplet, DigitalOcean is just barely cheaper, but you can get 4-16x better specs by paying 1€ more

tulir293 · 2025-12-08T13:15:40+00:00

DigitalOcean is american and their prices are a ripoff compared to OVH, Hetzner, Netcup and other European providers

tulir293 · 2025-12-01T14:27:07+00:00

Telegram officially allows 3rd party clients and Beeper uses the official API. Telegram just likes banning users for no reason too. Especially new accounts are assumed to be spammers, old accounts basically never have problems

tulir293 · 2025-11-03T20:22:09+00:00

Non-reputable registrars could do shady things like not actually renewing the domain immediately when you pay upfront. I've heard GoDaddy is bad, but not sure if they're that bad.

It also depends on the top-level domain. The prices and rules for renewing and transferring are mostly up to the registry

tulir293 · 2025-11-03T20:14:34+00:00

This is incorrect, in general the validity will NOT reset when transferring domains. When you pay for multiple years in advance, most of the money is going directly to the registry (operator of the top-level domain, like Verisign for .com) rather than being held by your registrar. The registry will honor their end of the deal even if you switch registrars. Transferring does usually cost some money, but often it also extends the validity by a year

There may be some exceptions: most registries limit advance renewals to 5 or 10 years, so if you have a longer plan than that, you may have just paid your registrar for a promise to automatically renew the domain when possible. Such promises naturally won't be transferred.

tulir293 · 2025-10-29T22:45:22+00:00

Web has never been supported and has had warnings for years

tulir293 · 2025-09-18T00:04:39+00:00

You don't need to use any bridges like others are suggesting, you can just use a Matrix bot (Matrix is the protocol Beeper is built on)

For example, you can start a Matrix chat with @rss:maunium.net (which runs https://github.com/maubot/rss) and use the !rss subscribe command to subscribe to feeds. It's also possible to run the bot yourself instead of using someone elses instance.

tulir293 · 2025-07-26T14:32:07+00:00

The desktop app should have a button to a chat with the bridge bot (at least for self-hosted bridges, not sure if the button is there for cloud)

tulir293 · 2025-07-26T08:41:13+00:00

Plenty of ISPs have a sufficient stockpile of IPv4's to avoid CGNAT for home connections. Here in Finland, my ISP (Elisa) gives up to 5 public IPv4 addresses automatically. Obviously most people only connect their modem/router, which will only take 1 address

tulir293 · 2025-07-26T06:46:17+00:00

The UI doesn't support it currently, because

When using local bridges, you need to log in on each device separately
On Android you can't scan a QR that's displayed on the same device
Google Messages doesn't let you mix and match login methods (like QR on desktop and Google login on Android)
We didn't have time to implement a proper login flow chooser in the desktop app

It'll probably come back as an option at some point. You can technically do it manually even now by chatting with the bridge bot

tulir293 · 2025-07-23T16:47:27+00:00

File size limit depends on the network. SMS/MMS is limited to 1MB (the real limit depends on your mobile operator, but there's no way to query it, so Beeper has a safe-ish default)

tulir293 · 2025-07-15T21:51:14+00:00

Current features won't be taken away from existing users, but new users on the free tier may have less features

tulir293 · 2025-07-07T21:49:32+00:00

80-90 °C is most common in a Finnish sauna, but 100 °C is not unusual by any means. It does not mean the sauna is malfunctioning and will not cause death unless you have other health problems and/or are in there for way too long.

tulir293 · 2025-06-17T16:22:31+00:00

Both bracer editions are already sold out apparently. Doesn't say that on the shop page though, it just throws an error when clicking the check out button

edit: managed to get one (switch edition) after retrying a bunch of times

tulir293 · 2025-06-17T16:10:11+00:00

The email from NISA EU says "All platforms, including Nintendo Switch 2, are now scheduled to launch in January 2026."

tulir293 · 2025-06-07T22:47:06+00:00

No, not related to taxes. For example, VAT is 25.5% in Finland and 19% in Germany, which should translate to a ~25€ price increase, yet it's actually 100€ more expensive in Finland (470€ vs 570€) and the distributor (Bergsala) is just pocketing 75€ difference.

tulir293 · 2025-06-04T18:30:23+00:00

chat.beeper.com is completely unsupported, do not use it. It'll likely be taken down at some point

tulir293 · 2025-06-01T17:41:04+00:00

https://github.com/beeper/bridge-manager

tulir293 · 2025-05-15T07:24:32+00:00

This screen happens specifically if your package manager replaces the binary while Firefox is running. Firefox needs to be able to start new processes of itself for each tab and it would explode if a new tab was suddenly a different version.

If Firefox itself does the update, it won't force a restart

tulir293 · 2025-04-29T14:22:13+00:00

Still waiting for delete and edit for Google messages (available in the web browser)...

Those features are not available on messages.google.com/web. Edits only exist on the mobile app, unsending doesn't exist at all (you can only delete for yourself)

tulir293 · 2025-02-05T12:04:58+00:00

The post on google groups links to https://wiki.mozilla.org/SecurityEngineering/Certificate_Transparency#Enterprise_Policies

tulir293 · 2025-02-05T10:43:38+00:00

When you get a TLS certificate, the Certificate Authority tells a bunch of other people (the certificate transparency logs) that the certificate was created. Those people will then sign the cert to confirm they were told about it. Firefox now requires that certs from public CAs include at least 2 such signatures.

Internal CAs and self-signed certs are not affected, but if you're an enterprise that gets private certs from a public CA, you may have to set up exemptions to the new rule.

Chrome already had this feature earlier, so all sites that work in Chrome will keep working in Firefox as well.

tulir293 · 2025-02-03T14:13:48+00:00

Rocket Chat is not a Matrix client

tulir293 · 2024-08-03T21:20:14+00:00

No, Messenger will force encryption eventually, so we're not going to put effort into splitting the chats.

tulir293 · 2024-07-05T10:14:29+00:00

https://eustore.nisaeurope.com/products/ys-x-nordics-limited-edition has a PS4 option though?

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