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This is basically the same line of reasoning used by people that say you could replace your corporate slack with IRC. Of course you could, but there's a good re
by AmericanChopper 6y ago
This is basically the same line of reasoning used by people that say you could replace your corporate slack with IRC. Of course you could, but there's a good reason that people don't. If you just want to compare one VPS to another, the only thing you're comparing is cost and availability. But really there's many more factors that people are interested in considering beyond just that. Even if the only service you're interested in using is a VPS, using an AWS EC2 would have so many benefits over a Hetzner VPS that I'd struggle to list them.
Amazon, and Google, and Microsoft... don't win cloud business because people are dumb, they win it because they offer a better product.
- baq 6y agowell, the thing is, if you literally only need one server, AWS is ridiculously expensive. the value proposition is just not there. you have to design for the cloud from the start to come out on top.
- AmericanChopper 6y agoWell literally only needing one server is already a contrived use case. But if I was only in charge of one server, I'd still prefer to be in charge of one server on a platform that had AMI, CloudTrail, IAM, Amazon Inspector, GuardDuty, AWS Certificate Manager, CloudFront, AWS CLI, EBS, CloudWatch, AWS Config, ALB, Route 53, Secrets Manager, AWS WAF, and plenty of the other features that I might find perfectly useful in a one server environment. The value proposition of vanilla VPS providers is just "figure it out yourself". Deciding that a feature rich platform is worth the expense over a single product service provider is often a perfectly rational and cost effective decision.
- C1sc0cat 6y agoAnd have wild swings in load - if its steady sate load then owning the kit outright and renting space in a DC is much more cost efficient than AWS. And bonus you can write of the depreciation cost of hardware in your accounts.
- f1refly 6y agoI have a vps at hetzner. I use it as irc bouncer and as a git remote for pass. Sell me on why I should use amazon instead.
- AmericanChopper 6y agoI wouldn’t imagine personal IRC servers are what Germany and France are talking about when they discuss alternatives to AWS.