| ▲ | _pdp_ 8 hours ago |
| You can extract a lot of value from bare-metal servers from Hetzner but you need to put some effort initially to get them going. That being said, it is not really that difficult. And, frankly, it a lot more fun. |
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| ▲ | navigate8310 6 hours ago | parent [-] |
| Could you explain the "some effort initially" part? |
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| ▲ | jurgenburgen 16 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | You take care of disaster recovery, failing machines, the works. Getting a new (or replacement) machine from Hetzner takes longer than spinning one up on a cloud provider so you need to be able to survive some machines failing. | |
| ▲ | esafak 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | The usual bare metal lack of amenities, that's all. |
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