I thought I heard that hetzner was pretty cheap, haven't looked myself though...

mark_l_watson 18 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I have used Hetzner off and on for years, nice products and services.

I don’t care what provider you use, if your business or app use case needs any sort of reliability have a plan for reinstalling code and data on alternate providers quickly as possible.

There are horror stories of people and companies being cut off because of pressure from the US government, or having one of the Google/Microsoft/Amazon tech giants cancelling accounts.

Really, in today’s world, why totally rely on anyone?

EDIT: it seems prudent to maintain a cloud account in Europe, US, and Asia and have a plan for moving application code and data around if required. Outside the US I have mostly only used Hetzner, but Alibaba has impressive looking services.

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adrianN 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Price is probably not the only factor in competitiveness.

	▲	matt-p 26 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		They are OK but I would not have them as my /only/ cloud.
	▲	Imustaskforhelp an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Well Hetzner's support's phenomenal too. Sure they might not have all the same offerings but they are really easy to abstract upon and personally I feel like hetzner is seriously one of the best cloud providers. Hetzner is absolutely 10x more competitive than AWS. It's actually hard to match the competitiveness of hetzner with their scale actually. I seriously can't understate this enough but AWS being competitive is really somewhat of a mass delusion or maybe the fact that Companies don't know other alternatives exist but I genuinely find it absolutely strange. Also, just go ahead and try hetzner and see their competitiveness out for yourself. Seriously, one of the best (netcup another german hosting is really great too and they can be even cheaper at times and its something I personally use and can vouch for both netcup/hetzner)