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A no-nonsense 2026 comparison of Europe's three most talked-about sovereign clouds. OVHcloud's certifications, Hetzner's raw price-performance, and DanubeData's managed services on Hetzner bare-metal, with pricing tables, honest trade-offs, and a decision framework.
Contabo is cheap, but is it reliable enough for production? A 2026 buyer's guide to European VPS alternatives: DanubeData, Hetzner, Scaleway, OVHcloud, IONOS, Netcup, UpCloud. Compare NVMe vs HDD plans, IOPS throttling, setup fees, and 20TB traffic allowances — with migration steps and real benchmarks.
AWS Lightsail offers simplified VPS hosting starting at $3.50/month, but its 1-3TB traffic caps, CPU credit throttling, CLOUD Act exposure, and $0.09/GB egress overages make European alternatives significantly better value. Compare DanubeData, Hetzner, Scaleway, OVHcloud, UpCloud, Linode EU, and Vultr EU with real cost math for 2026.
PlanetScale retired Hobby, not its business. Compare European MySQL options, current pricing models, recovery and a measured migration plan.
Compare Neon branching and serverless workflows with European PostgreSQL options, then rehearse a direct export, restore and safe cutover.
ElephantSQL has officially sunset its managed PostgreSQL service. If your indie project, Heroku replacement, or production app was still running on it, here is a practical 2026 migration guide: comparison of EU and US alternatives (DanubeData, Neon, Supabase, Aiven, Scaleway, Crunchy Bridge, ElestIO), a tested pg_dump/pg_restore playbook, logical replication for zero-downtime cutover, and GDPR/CLOUD Act considerations.
MongoDB Atlas is the default managed Mongo, but its US ownership (CLOUD Act), steep pricing escalation, and SSPL license raise real concerns for European teams. This 2026 guide compares Atlas against EU-sovereign alternatives — including FerretDB, self-hosted Mongo, and migrating to managed PostgreSQL JSONB on DanubeData — with a full schema and query migration walkthrough.
Upstash pioneered serverless Redis with per-request pricing and a global edge, but a single real-time feature can blow the free tier apart and push bills past €500/mo. Here are the best Upstash alternatives for European teams in 2026, including flat-rate DanubeData Managed Redis, Valkey, and Dragonfly from €4.99/mo.
Looking for a Render.com alternative in Europe? Compare DanubeData, Scaleway, Koyeb, Railway, Fly.io, Dokku, and Platform.sh on price, GDPR compliance, managed Postgres, and production scalability. Complete 2026 guide for EU developers.
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