Comment by jwr
3 days ago
I can recommend:
* Hetzner.de for servers (I've been using their physical servers for many years now, incredible performance per € spent)
* Fernand as your CRM, it's smooth and nice and so much better and faster than all the zendesks and freshdesks it's not even funny. (https://getfernand.com/)
* AISLER if you design electronics and need to make PCBs (https://aisler.net/)
Thanks, just a note that by "CRM" people typically think of Sales (Salesforce, Hubspot etc), not Support (zendesks and freshdesks).
Hmm… In my mind "CRM" is "Customer Relationship Management", and I use Fernand to manage relationships with my customers :-)
Ehm sorry but no. CRM stands for Customer Relationship Management so … a support ticket is, by definition, a customer relationship event.
Salesforce spending millions to conflate “CRM” with “sales pipeline” was just marketing.
Also, Zendesk calls itself a CRM. Freshdesk’s parent is literally named Freshworks CRM. Gartner and Forrester have always put support under the CRM umbrella.
I just noted how people typically think, based on my experience in the area. :shrug:
PS: By the way, "Can Zendesk be used as a CRM?": https://www.zendesk.co.uk/blog/can-zendesk-be-used-as-a-crm/
I like that German company offers Blitz service. Tempted to order something from the UK.
You do pay import tax, plus admin fee to the carrier - or did last time I ordered. But factoring it in its still a great deal.
That's fine. Same from China etc.
AISLER are AMAZING at printing boards, but sadly are very very expensive for assembly.
Love them though.
Scaleway for cloud: great UI, CLI, Terraform. Like you’ve never left Azure.
>great
>like you’ve never left Azure
hmmmmmm
Ok, so this shows how bad I am at marketing. I forgot to mention my own service, if you are building electronics: PartsBox, https://partsbox.com/ (insert facepalm emoji here)