Does such a thing exist? A coop cloud provider? A unonized cloud provider? An ethical cloud provider? A good guy cloud provider?

  • thisfro@slrpnk.net
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    11 months ago

    You can look at infomaniak, they host everything in Switzerland and use 100% green energy. They also build on open source standards in a lot of places.

    But in the end, servers are power hungry and need a lot of rare earths, other minarals and large amounts of energy to be produced.

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    11 months ago

    This really depends on the services you’re interested in. If you want something like aws, then no 🙂

    There are plenty of other service providers that do things more ethically. Bitwarden is good, random example in my opinion. The software is e2ee and their service just syncs data between your devices. It’s not really possible for the bitwarden, the company, to read or mishandle your data in a way that matters. Note that this doesn’t apply to the credit card info for paid accounts. Still, this is what I consider “the good guy”.

    So what services are you looking for?

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      11 months ago

      VMs with external IPs would be enough, so your typical VPS. Updated the title.

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    11 months ago

    I’m a big fan of DigitalOcean, they’re very much geared to developers. Had a chat with them a couple of days ago and they seem good guys. IMHO way more ethical than Amazon.

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    11 months ago

    There are some small co-location data centers like that, but consumer VPS provision at competitive prices needs a scale that is hard to reach for a coop.

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        11 months ago

        Have been customer with hetzner for more than 10 years and they are awesome. First physical server (HDD swaps in 10 minutes!) Now on their cloud environment. It just runs and is cost effective!

        You can even use terraform to describe your resources and have them created automatically, or use the API from any programming language.

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    11 months ago

    So… you’re looking for communism in the form of web hosting? 😜