Re:How we got our AWS bill to around 2% of revenue
by mmahemoff on Sunday June 28, 2020 @06:47AM
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You can't learn everything by just trying the service though. Particularly on issues like downtime, support, and how they handle spikes. Also some providers have been known to artificially elevate resources for new users until they're locked in.
Re:How we got our AWS bill to around 2% of revenue
by sumedh on Sunday June 28, 2020 @06:00AM
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I think hetzner has servers in Germany and Finland only, not the right choice for most people here.
Re:How we got our AWS bill to around 2% of revenue
by unixhero on Sunday June 28, 2020 @06:48AM
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Hosting in Finland and Germany is a great choice for a lot of the right reasons.
Re:How we got our AWS bill to around 2% of revenue
by smerdyakov on Sunday June 28, 2020 @08:19AM
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Additionally, because it is hosted in Germany, you need to send them a copy of your ID and I found that their support was quite amateurish. So for me the process was:
Go to hetzner.de, create an account, it gets instantly closed because you have a UK driving licence but were born elsewhere (perhaps too complicated for them?).
Never had that from AWS or OVH.
Go to hetzner.de, create an account, fire up one of their 5€/month VPS and see if it runs your application well. If it doesn't, upgrade the VPS (or whatever) till the max or until you decide that AWS or whatnot might be better suited (or cheaper).
It's nothing personal against you, but those comparisons aren't worth anything. They are highly specific to the test case, which might very likely not be like the stuff you are trying to run.
And I've just so often seen people on StackOverflow ask how to fix their AWS setup to run a simple WordPress site, it's unbelievable.
There's this old saying: "If the only tool you've got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail."
That pretty much works for GC/AWS/Azure, too.