Hetzner continues its growth in the US with a new location

Re:Hetzner continues its growth in the US with a new location by huijzer on Monday December 05, 2022 @07:09AM (#33864515)

Since everyone is all of a sudden voting for managed databases, maybe there is a reason why Hetzner is so cheap and the reason is that they focus on the core and not on satisfying all kinds of feature requests?

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Re:Hetzner continues its growth in the US with a new location by oblio on Monday December 05, 2022 @07:25AM (#33864691)

It's not "all kinds of feature requests", if you think about it.

IT is basically 2 things, at its core:

* compute

* storage

Hetzner offers cheap compute, which is great because modern applications can have stateless web/app servers.

Now, the missing part is storage, and that's much harder and riskier since it's state, inherently. A server dies, you lose stuff if you misconfigure it.

So people want a fully managed IT solution.

It's simple and it's obvious conceptually, just hard.

And I guess Hetzner won't do it because it's hard thus expensive to do.

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Re:Hetzner continues its growth in the US with a new location by Aeolun on Monday December 05, 2022 @09:48AM (#33866318)

There already are full managed solutions. They’re 5x more expensive. It sounds to me like people expect the whole managed experience but 5x cheaper, which is never going to happen.

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