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@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.netAll my domains (20+) are at a EU based registrar (Hosting Concepts B.V. via cloudz.be).
Both my public servers are at EU based hosting companies (netcup and OVH).
My Nextcloud based sharespace (think: dropbox) is at a EU based hosting company (Hetzner).
This is nothing new.. Has been like that since 20+ years. I always wanted to have my digital life close to me, meaning under EU jurisdiction.
(I am not telling you to do as I do, I'm sharing my setup as a FYI)
I am too old school so I never used AWS, S3 or similar stuff. All I need is a virtual private server, put Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) on it and configure as needed. Nowadays with containers and podman. I also backup everything to my server at home (a HP Microserver with 12TB RAID, running, you guessed it, RHEL). For code I have a container running #Forgejo. My websites are static pages I create and update with Jekyll. Sure, I am a nerd. But I am really happy that I can do this all this way.
I have documented big chunks of that setup on my blog at https://jan.wildeboer.net and some more little things as gists at https://codeberg.org/jwildeboer/gists because sharing is caring :) If you have questions, feel free to send me a message here, on Signal or as e-mail.
I avoid the term digital sovereignty, as it is often connotated with some weird nationalist thinking. I prefer to think in terms of owning my digital footprint/identity the best I can.
@jwildeboer This is very helpful. Thanks 
@jwildeboer yeah I’m thinking of setting up services (next cloud specifically) on Australian servers to keep it local and off American kit
@morebento @jwildeboer if you dont need external access i recommend to host it locally. You dont need much power, a raspberry pi is strong enough.
@jwildeboer What's your process to backup docker/podman volumes from server to home computer ?
@jwildeboer I'm so used to bad service that I was shocked at the extreme friendliness of cloudz.be 