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The bootstrapper's EU stack for under €10 per month

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Why This Matters

This article highlights affordable EU-based cloud hosting options that provide powerful compute resources for under €10 per month. These cost-effective solutions enable startups and developers to deploy and scale applications without significant upfront investment, fostering innovation and accessibility in the tech industry. For consumers, it means more affordable and reliable hosting options for their projects and services.

Key Takeaways

No serious EU cloud provider gives away permanent free compute. What you get instead is very cheap compute.

Hetzner Cloud's CX33 server configuration is the sweet spot at around €7 a month for 4 vCPUs, 8 GB of RAM, and 80 GB of disk. That is enough to run a Django or Rails app with a Postgres database, Redis for caching, background workers - with plenty of headroom. If your idea finds traction, you scale up vertically for a long time before you have to think harder about it. For your average boring CRUD-style app, this server configuration could even be considered overkill.

Netcup is the runner-up with similarly cheap VPS plans starting under €5 a month. Slightly less polished console, but the price-performance is excellent and they have been around since 2003.