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As usual HN is my go to source for everything. Is there another thread, like "Tell HN: Bluesky is down"?

Status page says: "We are investigating an incident with service in one of our reginos" - regions maybe?


It’s down for me in Switzerland

Got that too. My first reaction: Go to HN to understand what's going on. Where are the comments?

I don't like all the 'us against them' rhetoric going on. All that European alternatives talk is not much better than America first.


It's a geopolitical reality. Not liking the 'us against them' mentality is fair enough, I agree with that, but we can't be blind to what's happening around us.

Also, I do think that there's benefit to opting for EU products, as they are generally more 'consumer-rights' friendly than the US alternatives.


Most of the articles I read about this is about showing that going all-European is possible at all. If that feels like it’s an us vs. them thing, I’m not sure how I could change your mind.


Thanks. You don't need to convince me much. I was curious to post a more controversial comment. It's my specific perspective, we run a small hosting business: German company running on American infrastructure (AWS), serving a global customer base. This is much harder to defend these days. We really don't need 'US against them' or 'EU against them'. I am writing a blog post about it.


Nice. For the records, there are some PHP based systems doing static file (in general, some generated, some rendered): Kirby CMS, Statamic, Jigsaw, Grav …


Chuck Norris counted to infinity. Twice.


Was about to add this too!


I see a lot of young people on that page.


The original Heroku often gets praised here. Rightfully so. It inspired many. We started our PHP PaaS [0] 13 years, ago. Most of the others from that area are long gone. PagodaBox, CloudControl, PhpFog …

[0] https://www.fortrabbit.com


Commission launches market investigations on cloud computing services under the Digital Markets Act https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_...

> Two market investigations will assess whether Amazon and Microsoft should be designated as gatekeepers for their cloud computing services, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, under the DMA, in other words whether they act as important gateways between businesses and consumers, despite not meeting the DMA gatekeeper thresholds for size, user number and market position.


> AWS European Sovereign Cloud is located in the state of Brandenburg, Germany, and is generally available today.

Appears to be in Massen: https://www.lr-online.de/lausitz/finsterwalde/investition-in...


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