Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS?

Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS? by bachback on Sunday October 02, 2016 @10:47AM (#12622557)

thanks, but I don't think hetzner is cloud based. most hosters still speak about servers as physical machines as in 2005.

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Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS? by toomuchtodo on Sunday October 02, 2016 @01:25PM (#12623325)

Because servers are physical machines. Virtual machines, instances, etc are not servers per se. Servers traditionally == physical node.

Source: 15 years in ops

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Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS? by dx034 on Monday October 03, 2016 @12:10PM (#12628649)

With 2005-style physical machines you know at least that you can rely on performance. Storage is local and CPUs are used by no-one but you.

If you know that you have a rather steady load, dedicated servers can be far cheaper than any "cloud" offer.

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Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS? by easychris on Sunday October 02, 2016 @04:08PM (#12623980)

Slightly OT but rumors are Hetzner is working on a cloud offer: http://www.hetzner-cloud.de/ [german].

Although I doubt that they can compete with AWS, Azure, GCE & Co.

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