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Re:Hetzner Private Cloud by kuschku on Sunday May 21, 2017 @02:00PM (#14388303)
Definitely. But if hardware is the only expense that scales per user – as is with most B2C apps, and even many B2B products – the difference between GCP and bare metal can make you last a lot longer on the same seed round.

(The show Silicon Valley actually showed that part quite well)

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Re:Hetzner Private Cloud by brianwawok on Sunday May 21, 2017 @05:09PM (#14389273)
Except as I told you not always.

If we optimized and saved $100 per month on hardware at the cost of even 1 engineer hour, it would be a net loss.

I think a LOT of startups are very simple from the hardware level. You can go real far on just a few servers. And at that level, who care who manages them? Do what is easier.

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