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| ▲ | tormeh 2 days ago | parent [-] | | I hesitate to call Hetzner "cloud". Hetzner is an EC2+S3 competitor, not an AWS one. IMO the minimum for being a real cloud is you need hosted Postgres, hosted Kafka, hosted Kubernetes, and S3-compatible object storage. Without the first three Hetzner is just not in the same product category. Nobody sensible buys AWS for the comically overpriced EC2. | | |
| ▲ | everfrustrated 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Another missed component is a real autoscaling load balancer. This often gets missed and taken for granted. Possibly due to if you haven't seen a good one (AWS) you might not realise what you're missing. Most aspiring "cloud" companies have fixed capacity single tennant load balancers which is not cloud in any definition. | | |
| ▲ | keepamovin 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Is it so hard to wire up some health/load checks and hook the provider API to spin up more VPS? |
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| ▲ | keepamovin 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Is it really so much cheaper to pay for "hosted" apps rather than just plumbing your own on VPS/metal? | | |
| ▲ | tormeh 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | It's far cheaper to do it yourself, but the entire point is that you outsource the management of the service. Lots of people don't want to deal with database failovers, or - god forbid - deal with Kubernetes control plane issues. | |
| ▲ | pyrale 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | On the opposite, it is more expensive, and any large enough company should probably at least consider renting metal rather than services. For a small org, though, it lets you avoid a lot of infrastructure/ops work. |
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