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European Container Registry: A GDPR-Compliant Alternative to GHCR, Docker Hub, and Quay
GitHub Container Registry, Docker Hub, and Quay all store your private container images on US-based infrastructure. For European businesses subject to Schrems II, that's a problem. Here's a registry that isn't.
Tired of Docker Hub Rate Limits? Run Your Own Container Registry for €3.99/month
Docker Hub caps anonymous pulls at 100 per six hours per IP. If your CI is rate-limited, your deploys stall. DanubeData Container Registry has no pull limits, lives in the EU, and costs less than a coffee.
Introducing DanubeData Container Registry — Private Docker Images, Hosted in the EU
Push and pull private container images at cr.danubedata.ro. Per-tenant isolation, auto-wired Rapids credentials, Ceph-backed European storage, OCI v2 compatible. Free Starter tier included with every account.
Price adjustment effective July 1, 2026
An unfortunate, but necessary price change. Effective 1 July 2026, we are adjusting prices across most of the DanubeData catalog. The change applies to both new orders and to the resources you already have. Sustained cost pressure across components, power, and leased infrastructure has reached the point where we can no longer hold our current prices. The complete list of changes is below.
Incident review — S3 object storage instability, April 30 2026
On April 30 2026, our S3 object storage service experienced intermittent disruptions over a six-hour window. A faulty 10 Gigabit network card on a newly added storage server triggered repeated kernel watchdog reboots. Here is what happened, what our diagnosis got wrong on multiple occasions, and what we are changing as a result.
Self-Hosted GitHub Actions Runners on VPS: Cost-Savings & Setup Guide (2026)
Cut your GitHub Actions bill to almost nothing, remove the 6-hour job timeout, and get 4x the CPU power by running self-hosted runners on a DanubeData VPS. Full 2026 setup guide with security hardening, autoscaling, and actions-runner-controller (ARC) on Kubernetes.
OVHcloud vs Hetzner vs DanubeData: Which European Cloud in 2026?
A no-nonsense 2026 comparison of Europe's three most talked-about sovereign clouds. OVHcloud's certifications, Hetzner's raw price-performance, and DanubeData's managed services on Hetzner bare-metal, with pricing tables, honest trade-offs, and a decision framework.
Contabo Alternatives: Better-Value European VPS with Actual Reliability (2026)
Contabo is cheap, but is it reliable enough for production? A 2026 buyer's guide to European VPS alternatives: DanubeData, Hetzner, Scaleway, OVHcloud, IONOS, Netcup, UpCloud. Compare NVMe vs HDD plans, IOPS throttling, setup fees, and 20TB traffic allowances — with migration steps and real benchmarks.
AWS Lightsail Alternatives in Europe: Better Value Simple VPS Hosting (2026)
AWS Lightsail offers simplified VPS hosting starting at $3.50/month, but its 1-3TB traffic caps, CPU credit throttling, CLOUD Act exposure, and $0.09/GB egress overages make European alternatives significantly better value. Compare DanubeData, Hetzner, Scaleway, OVHcloud, UpCloud, Linode EU, and Vultr EU with real cost math for 2026.
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