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PlanetScale Shutdown Aftermath: European MySQL Options in 2026
Business
April 20, 202614 min

PlanetScale Shutdown Aftermath: European MySQL Options in 2026

Two years after PlanetScale killed the Hobby tier and dropped Vitess open-source maintenance, the dust has settled. Here is the honest post-mortem: where everyone went, what the pricing shock actually cost teams, and the EU-specific managed MySQL and MariaDB options that make sense in 2026 — including why 99% of PlanetScale customers never needed Vitess in the first place.

Adrian Silaghi
Adrian Silaghi
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Neon Alternatives in Europe: GDPR-Compliant Serverless Postgres (2026)
Business
April 20, 202614 min

Neon Alternatives in Europe: GDPR-Compliant Serverless Postgres (2026)

Neon is a brilliant serverless Postgres product, but a US-headquartered one now owned by Databricks. Here are the serious 2026 alternatives for EU teams: DanubeData, Aiven, Scaleway, Crunchy Bridge, and self-hosted options, with real cost math and a migration playbook.

Adrian Silaghi
Adrian Silaghi
1,779
ElephantSQL Shutdown: Where to Migrate Your Managed PostgreSQL in 2026
Business
April 20, 202614 min

ElephantSQL Shutdown: Where to Migrate Your Managed PostgreSQL in 2026

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.

Adrian Silaghi
Adrian Silaghi
875
MongoDB Atlas Alternatives in Europe: GDPR-Compliant Options (2026)
Business
April 20, 202614 min

MongoDB Atlas Alternatives in Europe: GDPR-Compliant Options (2026)

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.

Adrian Silaghi
Adrian Silaghi
1,544
Upstash Redis Alternatives: Serverless Redis Compared to Managed Redis in Europe (2026)
Business
April 20, 202614 min

Upstash Redis Alternatives: Serverless Redis Compared to Managed Redis in Europe (2026)

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.

Adrian Silaghi
Adrian Silaghi
1,858
Render.com Alternatives in Europe: GDPR-Compliant PaaS Options (2026)
Business
April 20, 202614 min

Render.com Alternatives in Europe: GDPR-Compliant PaaS Options (2026)

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.

Adrian Silaghi
Adrian Silaghi
2,335
Fly.io Alternatives in Europe: GDPR-Compliant Edge Deployment Platforms (2026)
DevOps
April 20, 202614 min

Fly.io Alternatives in Europe: GDPR-Compliant Edge Deployment Platforms (2026)

Looking for a Fly.io alternative in Europe? This 2026 guide compares DanubeData, Scaleway, Koyeb, Railway, Render, Porter and self-hosted options across Docker deploy, scale-to-zero, managed Postgres, pricing and GDPR/Schrems II compliance — with a full Fly-to-EU migration playbook.

Adrian Silaghi
Adrian Silaghi
1,572
DigitalOcean Spaces Alternatives: European S3-Compatible Storage (2026)
Business
April 20, 202614 min

DigitalOcean Spaces Alternatives: European S3-Compatible Storage (2026)

Looking for a European alternative to DigitalOcean Spaces? We compare DanubeData, Hetzner, Scaleway, OVH, Exoscale, Cloudflare R2 and Backblaze B2 on price, egress, GDPR posture, and features — with a step-by-step rclone migration playbook.

Adrian Silaghi
Adrian Silaghi
2,104
Wasabi Alternatives: Cheap European Object Storage Compared (2026)
Business
April 20, 202614 min

Wasabi Alternatives: Cheap European Object Storage Compared (2026)

Looking for a Wasabi alternative? Compare seven cheap European S3-compatible object storage providers side-by-side: pricing per TB, egress policies, minimum storage duration, GDPR compliance, and real-world costs at 1TB, 10TB, and 100TB. Plus a drop-in migration guide with rclone.

Adrian Silaghi
Adrian Silaghi
2,124
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