Alternatives in UK

Governments everywhere are waking up to the fact that "cloud" usually means "someone else's computer in someone else's country under someone else's laws."

This week we added 8 more UK-owned alternatives to #alternativesInUK - welcome to the club... 🧵

Mar 9 at 10:14amWeb
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StatusCake -- Uptime monitoring (alternative to Uptime Robot) - Monitors your websites every 30 seconds from 30 locations worldwide. 120,000 customers and a free tier
https://alternatives-in.uk/directory/statuscake
StatusCake | Alternatives in UK

StatusCake - Uptime monitoring, Page speed monitoring, and more

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Wonderful Payments -- Pay by Bank (alternative to Stripe)
FCA-authorised. Open Banking payments with instant settlement. No card networks, no terminal hardware, no Stripe's 2.9% cut. Been doing it since 2016.
https://alternatives-in.uk/directory/wonderful-payments
Wonderful Payments | Alternatives in UK

Instant Open Banking payments, no cards, no intermediaries Take payments directly from your customer's bank account using Open Banking. Payments are auth...

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ProWritingAid -- Writing assistant (alternative to Grammarly)
Orpheus Technology Limited, founded 2010. Proudly and explicitly independent -- no VC money, no acquisition. Goes deeper than Grammarly on style, pacing, and structure. Over a million writers use it. Your grammar checker doesn't need to phone home to San Francisco.
https://alternatives-in.uk/directory/prowritingaid
ProWritingAid | Alternatives in UK

ProWritingAid is a UK-based writing assistant that goes beyond basic grammar and spell checking. It offers in-depth style suggestions, readability analysis, ...

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PeaSoup Cloud - Object storage (alternative to Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage)
S3-compatible storage at 4.99 per terabyte. No egress charges. (Read that again if you've ever seen an AWS bill.) Three UK data centres, liquid immersion cooling, renewable energy. Won "Cloud Vendor of the Year" for their immersion-cooled S3 platform.
https://alternatives-in.uk/directory/peasoup-cloud
PeaSoup Cloud | Alternatives in UK

PeaSoup Cloud is a UK-based cloud provider offering S3-compatible object storage from their own data centres in the UK. Their storage uses liquid immersion c...

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Show threadLunar 🛸 ♾Mar 9
@alt_in_uk Ooh, I was looking for something like this!
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Cloud Next - DNS hosting (alternative to Route 53, Cloudflare DNS)
Derby, founded 2008. Trusted by over 1,000 councils, government departments, and schools. Managed DNS with DDoS protection. Cyber Essentials certified. If a thousand local authorities trust them with DNS, you probably can too.
https://alternatives-in.uk/directory/cloud-next
Cloud Next | Alternatives in UK

UK-based DNS and web hosting provider since 2008. Offers managed DNS hosting, web hosting, WordPress hosting, VPS and domain registration. 100% UK sales, sup...

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Krystal Hosting - Cloud and VPS (alternative to DigitalOcean, AWS, Azure, GCP)
The UK's largest independently owned hosting company. Green energy powered. They also built Katapult, their own public cloud platform. If you're paying Amazon to host a WordPress site in Virginia, we need to talk.
https://alternatives-in.uk/directory/krystal
Krystal | Alternatives in UK

Premium web hosting that’s fair to you and the planet Get ultra-fast, secure green web hosting powered by 100% renewable energy and backed by award-winnin...

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Show threadDavid - Forking MadMar 9
@alt_in_uk all of the links you've quoted in this post give me an error....Page not found.
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@daj facepalm emoji - looks like my redirects have died! Thanks for the headsup!
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@daj all fixed now - thanks again :)