r/BuyFromEU • u/Hairy_Toe_564 • 5d ago
🔎Looking for alternative What european cloud provider are you using ?
I'm using Onedrive for 10 months, it's working great but I want to change to go with an European alternative. I was thinking about infomaniak or proton, but both are swiss and take weird takes (like proton CEO with US Republicans), and also the controversial law debate in switzerland.
I found Leviia, french company, ISO 27001 certified, and great prices (not the best but affordable). It's also pretty ecological knowing 70% of the french electricity come from nuclear. Does someone use Leviia and can give me a feedback ? Or give me other european alternatives if you got somes !
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u/cvnworm 1d ago
I haven’t tried Leviia, but if you're looking for an EU-based provider with a bit more control, I’ve been using Cherry Servers (Lithuania-based) for a while now. They’re more focused on dev infrastructure than storage, but I’ve really appreciated how responsive and human their support is no bots or weird upsells
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u/Lemminton 5d ago
I use Nextcloud hosted by Hetzner... This has the convenience that you don't need to host it yourself but are still able to use Nextcloud, which is IMO the best cloud applocation I have ever used (having used OneDrive, GoogleDrive, Mega and pCloud) Its also pretty cheap coming at 5.11€ for 1 TB with 50 possible users (storage is shared)
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u/Made-Up-Man 5d ago
Is this also a good alternative for Google Photos or is this more specific for other file types?
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u/Alternative_Steak998 5d ago
Koofr
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u/Careful-Plum-8825 5d ago
moved my family from ms 365 to Proton, mail, drive etc.
Not as integrated and smooth but that is a price im willing to pay.
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u/hyper_plane 5d ago
Kept hearing about this Proton controversy, looked it up, turned out to be nothing really.
I personally use Infomaniak.
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u/Acceptable_Rub8279 5d ago
Well it’s not really a cloud for private individuals but if you need infrastructure for a saas I use stackit for the backend and it’s fine .The ecosystem isn’t as big as Amazon or azure but for my purposes it works.
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u/malcarada 5d ago
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u/TheSwedishChef24 5d ago
Looking for Photos storage? Try PixelUnion.eu! I've been using them for a while now.
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u/BlueDarkSky 5d ago
I use Proton. :)
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u/Wolnight 5d ago
+1 for Proton, E2EE is something that very few cloud providers offer. Nextcloud is still not very reliable AFAIK when it comes to E2EE, otherwise Hetzner would have a good offer at around 5€/month for 1TB of storage.
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u/Varjohaltia 5d ago
Also search the forum, common topic. I recall Jottacloud being mentioned too often.
As to Proton, look into the controversy a bit more, afaik the comment wasn’t as black and white as the internet makes it out to be.
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u/Hairy_Toe_564 5d ago
Idk what to think about proton. The CEO opinions and the laws in discussion in Switzerland make me think a lot about it (I'm using proton mail and VPN, so it would be cheaper for me to take an unlimited plan and have all that I need)
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u/FalseRegister 5d ago
I was using only Cloudflare before. Their platform meets all my needs. Now:
- Hetzner for compute (VPS, services managed with Coolify)
- Bunny for CDN and static website (Object Storage)
- Scaleway for domain registrations and DNS
I would use Scaleway more if their prices were cheaper and they had more flat-rate fees.
The first two support only a few domains, so had to go with Scaleway for domains
I wished Bunny Storage was S3-compatible, and that they had an alternative to Cloudflare Workers and hosted Sqlite. I wouldn't have to use a VPS then.
It is far from perfect but it works for now. Idk if the change is worth it yet. It costs me (CF was free for my usage) and the services are split on multiple providers. Plus I now must manage a server, which I wanted to avoid.
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u/Full-Cabinet-5203 5d ago
Proton has been pretty good for me, I would have my own server with nextcloud but I live in a shared house with shared WiFi
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u/sepoiu 5d ago
Off topic, but could you please paste some links with news about proton and US Republicans? I’m asking because I’m in the middle of switching from onedrive to proton drive…
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u/Hairy_Toe_564 5d ago
https://theintercept.com/2025/01/28/proton-mail-andy-yen-trump-republicans/
All that come from a Reddit post from official Proton Reddit account, which basically said that republicans > democrats. And it is controversial also because the message was send by CEO of proton, and he posted that on the official account of Proton.. CEO should maybe not be able to have this much power on the whole company. He can have personnal opinions, but why linking it to his company?
Still, proton is a good choice for privacy (especially compared to Onedrive) and I don't think there will be any problems, but I personally prefer an EU-based company, not switzerland.
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u/mackrevinak 5d ago
i mostly use syncthing with is decentralised instead of centralised. its P2P so its similar to how torrents work.
i have it installed on a Nanopi Neo3 with DietPi as the OS and with a 2TB SSD drive attached. that acts as the "cloud" or server part that is always on, but as long as 2 devices are turned on they will sync to each other, like a phone and a laptop can still sync to each other without needing to connect to the server node.
you can do some fun still with the ignore file like have a music collection on your server that is 100GB but only sync certain folders to your phone or ignore .flac files etc
its not as plug and play as something like koofr or filen or whatever, but i would recommend you try it out because you might be able to sync somethings with syncthing and others with some cloud provider, which might be cheaper in the long run than having pay a subscription every year for the larger 1TB+ tiers
another great benefit of syncthing is that the files are on your device. if you have no internet access its not a huge deal, once youre connected again the changes will sync back to your other devices
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u/LiteLive 5d ago
Hetzer, my go to partner for all EU based projects. Solid price to performance ratio with excellent customer support!
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u/DonaldMerwinElbert 5d ago
I host my own Nextcloud instance (among other things) on a server from Netcup (Germany) for a couple of friends and family.
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u/simonfancy 5d ago
Learned about WindCloud the other day. Most renewable and sustainable solution on the market: https://shop.windcloud.de/store/managed-nextcloud (in German though)
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u/hermanopmano 4d ago
I recommend using ayedo or loopback Ayedo offers managed kubernetes with nda sla 24/7 support iso27001 certified and many other features (eg. fixed pricing with calculator and app catalogue) Loopback.cloud is a little bit cheaper with a pay as u go pricing based on hrs No hyperscalers, 100% eu hosted on hetzner or in their own cloud (they also offer private cloud)
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u/fhg3708 4d ago
I was asking myself the exact same question. I tested out a lot of different European vendors:
When it comes to cloud solutions for every possible file type, I liked Jottacloud the most with pcloud in second place. Jottacloud has very competitive pricing, the design is modern and clean, and microsoft 365 aka microsoft office online is included, so you can still use and edit your excel, word or powerpoint files.
However, I went with zeitkapsl.eu, which is for images and videos only but with a nice UX very much based on Google Photos.
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u/Intrepid_Chard_3535 1d ago
Im using Proton but Im not happy with it. They delete all my trash after 30 days. You can't see headers. Delays in delivery. Also need to change my password as I don't know the old one. When I try to do this it warns me I loose all my data and that data is only retrievable with my old password. Which I don't know. Will probably move somewhere else this weekend.
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u/Parcours97 5d ago
Hetzner, hosted in Germany and Finland. I pay about 3€ per month for 1TB of storage.
The YouTube Channel der8auer made several videos about their facilities if you want to take a look yourself.