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Comment by quickthrower2 | Hacker News Reader

Is there an arb opportunity? Something as simple as someone in the US runs Kubernetes on Hetzner, then rents out the pods for anyone in the world to run their workloads on. They could restrict the workloads, e.g. firewall the outbound requests to a pre agreed list.

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Yes I used to do this for US customers when Hetzner and OVH would only take EU customers.

The problem is that the customers interested in that price point are trash customers that only wan't to do all the dodgey stuff hetzner doesn't want them to do. Hetzner will detected it and will firewall the whole server all sites will go down the bad and the good and all of your customers will want refunds even if they where the cause of the problems.

Bad business not worth it.

There are hosting providers offering webhosting and virtual servers that just run their operations on Hetzner dedicated servers. The virtual servers are just KVM to split the dedicated server into multiple, with a bit of management interface and some firewall rules.

That...just sounds like a VPS? Or Amazon EC2, but a lot more clunky

Or I guess if it's just random servers running random workloads, AWS Fargate

I think there is room for a clunky but cheaper VPS. There is room for competitors. For side projects I used Digital Ocean over AWS because of the DX, abstraction level (close enough to the metal but not too close) and not going to worry about getting a $1m bill. This arb would probably make something cheaper that digital ocean, maybe with the UX of vast.ai (very basic web interface and SSH for the rest of what you need)

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