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I think probably the best reason (other than service robustness): support. CloudFlare is great until it's not, and you aren't paying $$$ for enterprise support. This is probably one of the most underrated reasons to switch to any lesser known (but still rock solid) infra services. 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Wish I was sponsored by them lmaoo) and their block storage is around 20 Euros per month", "context": "", "use_case": "cheap servers with unlimited egress", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Dock \u2013 Slack minus the bloat, tax, and 90-day memory loss"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["cloud hosting", "cheap servers with unlimited egress"], "compared": [{"slug": "digitalocean", "name": "DigitalOcean", "co": 1, "switched_from": 1, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "cloudflare", "name": "Cloudflare", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "ovh", "name": "OVH", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "bunny-net", "name": "Bunny.net", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48120629", "title": "I Moved My Digital Stack to Europe", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47675013", "title": "Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46671952", "title": "Show HN: Dock \u2013 Slack minus the bloat, tax, and 90-day memory loss", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-05": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {}}, "quotes": [{"id": 769941200, "item_id": 48121325, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48121325", "by": "cipher-108", "date": "2026-05-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I also switched from DigitalOcean and have found UpCloud very good for my purposes.", "excerpt": "See also the Finnish alternative https://upcloud.com/ I also switched from DigitalOcean and have found UpCloud very good for my purposes.", "context": "", "use_case": "cloud hosting", "switched_from": "DigitalOcean", "story": "I Moved My Digital Stack to Europe"}, {"id": 762806193, "item_id": 47675387, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47675387", "by": "ben8bit", "date": "2026-04-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "UpCloud too - great support!", "excerpt": "We use them for a couple of things - very happy. 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