Blog post now says: "* This post was updated at 11:15 a.m. Pacific time to clarify that the use case described here is a proof of concept. Some sections have been updated for clarity." But parts of it are still misleading.
They aren't really a multi-billion dollar corporation. A lot of it is them just pumping up their valuation. Stuff like this proves that in a lot of ways.
Cloudflare also works in Europe and has POPs there so I don't see why you couldn't use that. But there are also Hetzner VMs if you can configure sometime a bit less turnkey and don't necessarily need a CDN but just hosting mainly.
The problem is that it is still an American company, which is subject to American laws, which these days are fairly arbitrary and subject to change as often as the direction of the wind.
To a European it is not much different these days from hosting it on Alibaba Cloud or Yandex: you don't want to rely on hostile powers for critical infrastructure.
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