Run Ordinary Rails Apps Globally (2021)

Re:Run Ordinary Rails Apps Globally (2021) by jiripospisil on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @09:32AM (#30085827)

Increase their prices? Their prices are already completely insane. A dedicated 8-core CPU with 64GB RAM for $558.16/mo? And that's not even bare metal, you're sharing all of the other resources of the server. How is it possible that netcup can give you two more cores for under 50€ [0]? Or Hetzner a dedicated server, not just CPUs, for a similar price [1]? Housing servers is expensive without your own datacenter? No, it's not, it's cheaper than ever [2]. What is Fly doing with their servers? Or is that all just markup? It seems their customer is somebody who doesn't care at all about money or somebody who is completely unaware of how much servers actually cost.

[0] https://www.netcup.eu/bestellen/produkt.php?produkt=2632

[1] https://www.hetzner.com/sb?ram_from=5&ram_to=8&cpu_from=9000...

[2] https://dc6-cz.translate.goog/cenik-server-housingu/?_x_tr_s...

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Re:Run Ordinary Rails Apps Globally (2021) by mrkurt on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @09:41AM (#30085951)

A few things here:

1. We pay basically the same prices for dedicated hardware you would. Hetzner is cheap, in part, because they run in a single facility and optimize for price. We run in 22 locations and optimize for "cheap enough for most app devs".

2. All our servers are AMD Epyc CPUs – meaning more expensive than consumer CPUs. Our margin on hardware is almost exactly 70%, if that helps.

We're not competing with Hetzner, Hetzner is a great f'n company. If they do what you need we'd rather you use Hetzner. I could give you some TCO nonsense but I won't. I do think we're a pretty good value though!

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Re:Run Ordinary Rails Apps Globally (2021) by notyourday on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @09:40AM (#30085944)

The money is in the head, not in the tail. If you cannot afford $200 on a distributed application, go rent a server at hetzner

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