@michael @bartknubben @bjoernsta @sturmsucht

It's too bad I was shown european.social only the morning of your launch; I would have loved the opportunity to offer advice about the best ways to host it, making sure all the resources were based in Europe.

Good thing is, a move would be easy and swift. For domain name registrars, I recommend IONOS (Germany) or Hostinger (Lithuania). For managed Ghost hosting there's Magic Pages (Austria); they use Bunny as CDN (Slovenia): https://www.magicpages.co/

@michael I've used all these tools for years and I can really vouch for them - from first hand experience ❤️

@bartknubben @bjoernsta @sturmsucht

@michael I absolutely LOVE this website and I've been using it as a guide; you'd really appreciate it Michael:

https://european-alternatives.eu/categories

(that's what made me discover Bunny.net as an alternative to Cloudflare) 🤗

@bartknubben @bjoernsta @sturmsucht

@michael besides the tips from @_elena there are lots of people & organizations that are able to offer assistance. Please reach out next time so mistakes like hosting on AWS can be prevented. Happy to hear that you're working on fixing it. Thanks!

@bartknubben @bjoernsta @sturmsucht

@BjornW @michael @_elena @bartknubben @bjoernsta @sturmsucht @michael Thanks all for your advice. The site has been rebuilt from the ground up and moved to European infrastructure: hosting went from AWS to Ossrox, a German provider. It now runs on Kirby, a German CMS. Fonts are self-hosted instead of loaded from Google. The site makes no third-party requests at all. The domain will soon be transferred from GoDaddy.

In the process, we also made lots of improvements for accessibility: proper focus outlines for keyboard navigation, an improved HTML structure, and alt texts for images and graphics. There's more to do, of course. If you notice any issues, please let us know.