> The lead time for new servers deployed in a data center is weeks compared to seconds in the cloud. The lead time for Hetzner or OVH is measured in minutes an

> The lead time for new servers deployed in a data center is weeks compared to seconds in the cloud. The lead time for Hetzner or OVH is measured in minutes and is appropriate for the majority of use cases. Old-school providers like these used to run the entire internet before the cloud craze started. Colocation & own datacenter is not a good choice for most startups. Seems like a lot of people here miss a step and only go from one extreme to the other. There's a middle-ground of renting bare-metal that gives you amazing price/performance with none of the drawbacks of colocation or running your own DC.