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Hetzner and OVH do cloud offerings, though they are more experienced in real hardware and shared hosting than actual cloud. The prices are competitive with AWS
by zaarn 8y ago
Hetzner and OVH do cloud offerings, though they are more experienced in real hardware and shared hosting than actual cloud. The prices are competitive with AWS IMO.
- arendtio 8y agoFor Hetzner: https://www.hetzner.com/cloud https://www.hetzner.com/cloud What I like most about their service is the intuitive user interface and API. However, the downside is probably that they offer little more than virtual machines and storage. But for my projects, those things are completely sufficient and I am very happy with their service. I worked with AWS too but always hated it, because it takes so long to learn how they are doing things. Not because I am unfamiliar with the concepts, but because they seem to do things unnecessarily complicate (UX wise). Sometimes I ended up using CLI tools for AWS because they were more accessible and haunted by fewer bugs than their GUI.
- zaarn 8y agoPersonally, I prefer to build my stuff on top of baremetal. It costs more in personal/sysadmin time but you own the end result and it's less easily shut down by an overzealous AI at AWS HQ deciding you're a risk or competitor. That plus OVH and Hetzner aren't US corporations, my money and trust stay in Europe where they belong.