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Re:We reduced our server costs by moving away from AWS by fabian2k on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @10:31AM (#33008404)
You can easily rent space in a data center and put your own servers in there or just rent dedicated servers. The cheapest provider there is probably Hetzner, but then your servers are in Germany. This gets you a real, full server for something between 30-200 EUR per month. There are many other hosting providers that offer dedicated servers also in the US, e.g. OVH. This works the same way, they are usually more expensive than Hetzner.

Renting a dedicated server is very similar to renting a VM. It has a much higher provisioning time, usually hours to 1-2 days. And it takes some upfront cost or a time commitment. But it also has a lot more raw power. So if you don't require the flexibility VMs and the cloud provide they can be a very effective alternative.

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Re:We reduced our server costs by moving away from AWS by systemvoltage on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @01:27PM (#33010637)
If you want rocksolid dedicated servers of utmost HA and reliability, look no further than Equinix Metal: https://metal.equinix.com/product/servers/

They run datacenters for other datacenter companies. Most people have never heard of them because they're a $6B/year revenue beast that runs behind the scenes; but they also offer direct metal servers.

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Re:We reduced our server costs by moving away from AWS by unity1001 on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @01:07PM (#33010385)
> The cheapest provider there is probably Hetzner, but then your servers are in Germany

They have a US DC now. Though it only gives cloud servers. However even those are still way cheaper than any alternative.

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