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Aral Balkan
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I mainly post on my blog at https://ar.al  (RSS: https://ar.al/index.xml ) and interact on my Mastodon https://mastodon.ar.al . Please follow me there.

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    Aral Balkan‏ @aral 28 Sep 2015

    Need suggestions: DigitalOcean alternative that’s privacy-respecting (non-US/UK…) & green. Pipe dream or… thoughts? :)

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      2. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 28 Sep 2015
        Replying to @aral

        To add an answer to my own question, just stumbled on @orangewebsite again — looking good :) https://www.orangewebsite.com 

        1 reply 1 retweet 5 likes
      3. Fabrice Desré‏ @fabricedesre 28 Sep 2015
        Replying to @aral

        @aral maybe https://www.netcup.de/  but I could not find any info about their "greenness"

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      4. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 28 Sep 2015
        Replying to @fabricedesre

        @fabricedesre Thanks, Fabrice :)

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      2. Patrick in  🇮🇳‏ @PatrickHeneise 28 Sep 2015
        Replying to @aral

        @aral https://www.cloudscale.ch  privacy made in Switzerland.

        2 replies 1 retweet 2 likes
      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 28 Sep 2015
        Replying to @PatrickHeneise

        @PatrickHeneise Ooh, that looks interesting; thank you, Patrick :)

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      4. Patrick in  🇮🇳‏ @PatrickHeneise 28 Sep 2015
        Replying to @aral

        @aral Of course. It's a little more expensive than DO, but definitely safe, private and green.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      5. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 28 Sep 2015
        Replying to @PatrickHeneise

        @PatrickHeneise TBH, much more concerned about ease of use as one-person dev/sys-admin at the moment w quite a few droplets to nurture :)

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      6. Patrick in  🇮🇳‏ @PatrickHeneise 28 Sep 2015
        Replying to @aral

        @aral I briefly tested it and it seems as simple as DO. Says for "IT enthusiasts" so you should be good to go. ;)

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      7. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 28 Sep 2015
        Replying to @PatrickHeneise

        @PatrickHeneise *crosses fingers* Thanks again, man; appreciate it :)

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      8. Patrick in  🇮🇳‏ @PatrickHeneise 28 Sep 2015
        Replying to @aral

        @aral you're welcome

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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      2. Richard Fox‏ @ahref1 28 Sep 2015
        Replying to @aral

        @aral What's wrong with DigitalOcean D:

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 28 Sep 2015
        Replying to @ahref1

        @ahref1 Nothing wrong in terms of the service/convenience—I don’t know anything that matches it in those. But issues I mentioned matter.

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      4. Richard Fox‏ @ahref1 28 Sep 2015
        Replying to @aral

        @aral Thanks, good luck on your hunt

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      5. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 28 Sep 2015
        Replying to @ahref1

        @ahref1 Thanks :)

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      2. Ricardo Mendes‏ @rMdes_ 28 Sep 2015
        Replying to @aral

        @aral I like @Vultr geolocation options & overall features for small self-hosted sites but might be expensive for high traffic sites

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 28 Sep 2015
        Replying to @rMdes_

        @RikMende Thanks, Rick, I’ll check ’em out :) +@Vultr

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      2. wesley hill‏ @hakobyte 28 Sep 2015
        Replying to @aral

        @aral Have you looked into https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net  ?

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 28 Sep 2015
        Replying to @hakobyte

        @hakobyte Hey Wesley, thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, it has to be at least a VPS. Looks great for smaller sites/apps though :)

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      2. Wolfgang Maehr‏ @njyo 29 Sep 2015
        Replying to @aral

        Keen to hear if you find anything, @aral. I wanted to shift to http://www.edis.at/en/server/kvm-vps/iceland/ … but never got around to… +@edisat

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      3. Esteban Manchado‏ @estebanm 29 Sep 2015
        Replying to @njyo

        @njyo @aral had problems with Edis in Iceland, myself (mostly lots of downtime). I switched to https://1984.is/ . Much pricier but...

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