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?

	▲	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.