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Re:Searching the web for under $1000/month by heipei on Friday May 07, 2021 @09:46AM (#27075791)
Huge fan of Hetzner, but dedicated servers do not invalidate the value proposition of the cloud.

Ordering a server at Hetzner can take anywhere between a few minutes and a few days. Each server has a fixed setup cost of around the monthly rent. They only have two datacenters in Europe. They don't have any auxillary services (databases, queues, scalable object storage, etc.). They are unbeatable for certain use-cases, but the cloud is still valuable for lots of other scenarios.

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Re:Searching the web for under $1000/month by kuschku on Monday May 10, 2021 @01:01PM (#27108181)
> Ordering a server at Hetzner can take anywhere between a few minutes and a few days

At the start of the pandemic, ordering bare metal servers anywhere was faster than getting a new EC2 VM up and running...

The cloud doesn't even fulfil the value proposition of the cloud. It's significantly more expensive, and when you actually need the flexibility, none of it is available.

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Re:Searching the web for under $1000/month by ryanlol on Friday May 07, 2021 @11:43AM (#27077106)
> They only have two datacenters in Europe

Nonsense, Hetzner operates like 25 datacenters.

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Re:Searching the web for under $1000/month by heipei on Friday May 07, 2021 @12:27PM (#27077673)
Sorry, let's call it "regions" then, they have multiple DCs in different cities in Germany, but for latency purposes I would consider these part of one region.
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