With the current political turmoil I’ve really soured on using American services and want to move as much as I can to European alternatives.

There are a few sites already that lists alternatives both to products and digital services. The best ones I’ve found are Go European and European Alternatives.

I’ve already moved over to Proton from Google a few years back and will likely never go back. Proton also has several different products which makes their subscription a pretty good deal.

I plan on moving my domains from Porkbun, which is a fantastic service and has worked great for years, to the Swedish provider Oderland. I don’t really have that many domains and the ones I’ve bought over the years usually expire since it’s just small projects that don’t need custom domains. I usually run them as a subdomains to my main site anyway now.

Hosting is the trickier part since Vercel, Netlify, Cloudflare Pages etc. work great with generous free plans. Right now I keep most site on either Sevalla (where this site is hosted) and Cloudflare Pages. The simplest alternative right now is statichost.eu which is hosted in Sweden. But there is also FastFront.io which is currently under a waitlist so will keep an eye on that.

Of course, I can’t completely escape US services, but I can at least do my best to support companies that benefit Europe. Hopefully, this will gain momentum, and we can encourage more innovation from Europe.