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Show HN: Why we moved our servers to Iceland
- tristanho 8y agoThis is great. The one thing I don't see mentioned is the cost. How much more does it cost (say compared to DigitalOcean) for a VPS in Iceland? Not implying an extra cost wouldn't be worthwhile, but curious if it's a marginal difference or something like double the price.
- harianus 8y agoGood point which I forgot to mention in the article. There are not a Linodes or Digital Oceans in Iceland so it’s definitely more expensive. I think it’s safe to say it’s almost double the price if you buy a VPS with similar specs. Check out 1984hosting.com or orangewebsite.com to figure out for yourself.
- ypkuby 8y agoAs someone who now exclusively hosts in Iceland + Finland for two very freedom of speech and arguably good privacy countries, Iceland costs me twice as much as Finland. Put into perspective, I pay the equivalent of 100eur in Iceland for a decent sized server (64GB memory, 4TB storage, and my own subnet announced), and in Finland I pay 34eur for the exact same specifications.
- harianus 8y agoHi Hacker News, I'm the writer of this blog post. I am pretty sure that HN readers will find incorrect assumptions or know how to tackle the described problems better. I can handle HN feedback, so please help this guy out ;-)
- TicklishTiger 8y agoFrom the rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html "Blog posts, sign-up pages, and fundraisers can't be tried out, so they can't be Show HNs."
- charliebrownau 8y agoYou know something is wrong with "Demorcy" when we have to move servers away from CA + NZ + UK + AU + USA This is the world we live in , which the Global SOCIALIST LEFT has taken over almost all of western society and our rights are getting removed each week , leading to Global Socialist LEFT changing the WEST into an Socialist dictatorship by 2025-2030