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0xbadcafebeeyesterday at 5:38 AM1 replyview on HN

"one third the cost of AWS" is just AWS with savings plans enabled

> if you're [...] a researcher who just needs a beefy VM without surprise egress fees, we're 1/3 the price

The AWS egress fee is $0.08/GB, whereas Hetzner has $0.00/GB. So, why pay $0.0225/GB?

These companies are the worst kind of scam. If you could really provide a product on par with the big boys but somehow lower than commodity prices, you'd corner the entire hosting/cloud market. But you can't, because they already made things hyper-efficient.

It's like trying to sell someone a $5 hamburger by advertising that some other restaurant sells a $15 hamburger. It turns out that other restaurant also sells a $5 hamburger, it's just not at the top of the menu, because cheap isn't always a sales leader.


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solaticyesterday at 6:15 AM

The argument I'm hearing you make is that Hetzner needs to license a white-labelled version to distributors. If the servers are really commoditized then why aren't the data scientists in this "AWS is too expensive for data science" market going to Hetzner?