I don't want Europe to grow its own hyperscalers.

[liw@toot.liw.fi]

I don't want Europe to grow its own hyperscalers. Companies that become too big are a problem no matter who owns them. Instead, lets bring a healthy and thriving ecosystem of small and medium sized organizations to do hosting and who co-operate.

[andrew_shadura@mastodon.social]

@liw indeed. I love working with small companies. Feels much better, more personal. They usually care about their reputation, often resulting in higher quality.

[felixf@chaos.social]

@liw I don’t believe that scale is the primary issue.
First big hurdle is creating a product that manages infrastructure through an API that is as comprehensive as Amazon‘s et al.

[elricofmelnibone@mastodon.social]

@liw Tell that to European governments. Whenever they send out a public tender for anything, there are requirements on size, capital, headcount that effectively mean SMEs can't compete.

[datenwolf@chaos.social]

@felixf @liw

Not to endorse a specific product/vendor, but this looks pretty comprehensive to me:

Hetzner API overview

Detailed summary of available APIs and quicklinks to key resource endpoints to simplify implementation.

(docs.hetzner.cloud)