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We are decommissioning all our dedicated servers at Hetzner. This is not because we didn't like that service but because we are concentrating our efforts in AWS.

It's been a wonderful ride. It's cheap and reliable.

I wish our team was big enough to afford having to deal with dedicated hardware.

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Hetzner also has cloud servers and an API to provision them. There is even a terraform module for hetzner cloud. It works very well. But they don’t provide any managed services, like databases or blob storage.

Yup, reason why we stay in AWS

Scaleway and OVH are two other European companies who provide things like managed databases and blob storage, in addition to very competitively priced dedicated hardware and services.

One thing I personally like with OVH is that they have fixed prices for things like bandwidth, not pay-per-GB like most others.

If that’s the only reason, we offer managed databases of many flavors on hetzner. https://www.ayedo.de

That’s awesome, good to know. Do you provide a self service portal and an API for your services, or is it a manual process? Because on the website it always refers me to get in contact with sales. And you know how much developers hate human interaction :D

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