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A curated awesome-list of EEA and UK-hosted alternatives to common US SaaS (analytics, email, database, auth, error-tracking, hosting, payments), each with concrete region-pinning and verification notes. For engineers and operators proving where personal data actually lives.

Plain-English UK GDPR Data Processing Agreement (Article 28) and sub-processor disclosure templates for small SaaS and lean agencies. Real, ready-to-adapt text with worked examples and a 30-day change-notice discipline. Not legal advice.

Drop-in Lighthouse CI performance budget and GitHub Actions workflow for fast Astro marketing sites. Real lighthouserc.json with Core Web Vitals and resource-size budgets, desktop and mobile configs, and a ready-to-use lighthouse.yml. Fail the PR before a regression reaches a visitor.

The monthly managed-website care checklist: uptime, backups, SSL and domain-expiry, dependency and accessibility sweeps, security patching, and reporting. Real, runnable checks with scripts, Lighthouse and Pa11y configs, a report template, and a scheduled workflow.

A checklist and verification script for keeping a UK/EU service on EEA-sovereign infrastructure: the methodology TicketWave HQ runs quarterly on its own production stacks. CC BY 4.0.

Perfect Prep, 100% halal meal prep & catering, Yorkshire & Teesside. Astro static site built by VerySEOly (formerly UK Web Marketing). The site is no longer live; the case study is linked.