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The catch is marketing. Most people don't make decisions based on what is universally better for them, they make decisions based on the very limited information
by ta1234567890 8y ago
The catch is marketing. Most people don't make decisions based on what is universally better for them, they make decisions based on the very limited information they have and rely heavily on the people they know as well. All of this means that usually the companies/products/services that are the most well known will take the biggest share of the market, pretty much regardless of anything else (unless their offering completely sucks, but then they'd probably wouldn't be able to spend as much on marketing). So it's not about price and it's not about features or quality.
Very hard to compete with Amazon.
- coder543 8y agoHowever, Hetzner has apparently been around for 21 years, as I've learned. They actually started doing this before Amazon. It's possible that they're just massively underappreciated, or people had reasons to pick something else over that extended period of time. A lot of discussion here has pointed out that most people would rather have easy access to managed services from AWS (or GCP, Azure, etc.), rather than hiring engineers to manage and operate their own in-house copies of those services, and I tend to agree.
- ta1234567890 8y agoI had never heard of Hetzner before reading this thread on HN. Been using AWS for almost a decade. Most people I know are using either AWS or Google Cloud. A lot use Linode or Digital Ocean for personal projects.