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A lot of “US vs Europe” in the comments. The focus ought to be to provide great services rather than just “it’s built here and not there”. I use Hetzner over o
by mr90210 3y ago
A lot of “US vs Europe” in the comments. The focus ought to be to provide great services rather than just “it’s built here and not there”.
I use Hetzner over other providers because it’s dead simple to create and delete VMs and the prices are competitive … and yes it’s a European company.
The EU flag alone is not enough - Stable services, great UX and second to none support is the alternative that the market has been longing.
- Johnny555 3y agoA lot of “US vs Europe” in the comments I think the previous administration spooked Europe and made it clear that the USA is an unreliable partner.
- f6v 3y agoThe French president got treated to a proper American meal by a proper American president and looked very happy. It’s all forgotten now.
- mrweasel 3y agoThe EU has made a big pot of money available to try to get an EU cloud provider, a lot of people are interested in that money. I just don't think most of these people grasp how complex it's going to be. None of the existing EU hosting providers have succeeded in providing even a small subset of the services AWS provides. You also just can start out with an S3, SQS and EC2 clone anymore, customers expect more features from day one. Bootstrapping an new cloud provider is going to cost and insane amount of money and billions of Euros, all of which may be wasted if the EU and US can reach an agreement on data processing. As an example, look at Google, they have the money, the people and the technology, and they are having a hard time competing with AWS and Azure.