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Re:Tell HN: I got 10x Hetzner storage at the same price by systemvoltage on Saturday February 19, 2022 @01:21PM (#30399206)
It is interesting to see comments expressing extreme concerns about US employees being able to access Hetzner servers, but then I'd wager: 1) they're probably using Google/US services at their companies with almost a gaurantee 2) Germany has ties with US for surveillance 3) Hetzner uses US servers (Intel, AMD, Micron) and a whole bunch of other components in their servers. Or worse, Chinese components.

I guess I fail to see the logic in all of this, appears to be uninformed security theatrics.

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Re:Tell HN: I got 10x Hetzner storage at the same price by somebodythere on Saturday February 19, 2022 @04:26PM (#30400677)
I think it's just about latency. If most of your users/employees are located in NA, it doesn't make much sense to give them degraded network experience to save few Euros on hosting costs.
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Re:Tell HN: I got 10x Hetzner storage at the same price by sshine on Saturday February 19, 2022 @04:51PM (#30400866)
It’s not a few euros. It’s easily a factor 10-20 in costs.
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Re:Tell HN: I got 10x Hetzner storage at the same price by somebodythere on Sunday February 20, 2022 @07:31PM (#30410649)
Compared to AWS et al, sure. But there are plenty cloud services with datacenters in USA that are similarly cost-effective.
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