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Hetzner. You won't get much better support, and you will have to deal with EU legislative nonsense, but it won't be hard to do that if you are actually small.
by AJRF 5mo ago
Hetzner. You won't get much better support, and you will have to deal with EU legislative nonsense, but it won't be hard to do that if you are actually small.
Why do I say Hetzner?
It's very budget friendly and has a very small list of services so its much harder to screw yourself into a situation where its hard to leave.
- stingraycharles 5mo agoFor individuals, probably. For SMBs spending $10k - $100k a month, I would absolutely advise against that.
- VHRanger 5mo agoA lot of those are spending 10-100k a month when they could be spending 1k-10k a month with a more lean infra
- earnesti 5mo agoWhy is that? I've seen couple of small firms using hetzner very successfully and saving a lot of money compared to whatever cloud offering.
- devin-2030 5mo agoBack when we were spending 100k/mo on AWS, I calculated that equivalent infra would be $15k-$20k/mo at Hetzner.
- htx80nerd 5mo agoHetzner has the most unintuitive UI out of any host I've ever used in 20+ yrs of using different web host. Spending hours trying to do basic things, and even AI couldnt help. Switched to one of their competitors after 2(!) days of trouble shooting and got the same basic task done in ~10 mins.
- throwaway2037 5mo ago> Hetzner has the most unintuitive UI out of any host This is the first negative thing about Hetzner I have read on HN. Does anyone else dis/agree? > one of their competitors Can you share which one?
- htx80nerd 5mo agoDigital Ocean. I should add going into the whole situation I had a positive feelings about Hetzner and negative feelings about Digital Ocean. It's why I tried Hetzner first. I didnt like D.O. or want to use them. But in the end their interface was way easier to work with.