> Even GCP VMs and EC2 instances are reasonably priced. Really? EC2 instances are waaay overpriced. If you need a specific machibe for a relatively short time,

> Even GCP VMs and EC2 instances are reasonably priced. Really? EC2 instances are waaay overpriced. If you need a specific machibe for a relatively short time, sure, you can pick up one from the vast choice of available configurations, but if you need on for long-running workloads, you'll be much better of picking up one from Hetzner, by an order of magnitude. For one of the many examples, see this 5-year old summary (even more true today) by a CEO of a hardware startup: https://jan.rychter.com/enblog/cloud-server-cpu-performance-comparison-2019-12-12 https://jan.rychter.com/enblog/cloud-server-cpu-performance-...