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I’m starting to worry about this Hetzner trend. It can end up to get the price skyrocketing.

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There's other providers (OVH, etc) so I'm sure the price will remain competitive

Hopefully not. Their console is pretty bad so I reckon that will put a lot of people off.

The new console is completely fine.

The cloud console is pretty good though? Even does live sync!

The old one for dedicated servers (robot) is horribly outdated though.

Ah right, we're on robot so I've not seen the cloud one. Robot is old! :)

EC2 is sort of a ceiling price.

prices just dropped. :)

We’re just going to end up with everyone moving from Amazon to Hetzner and the same issue will remain. High prices, lockin, etc will appear.

We need an American “get off American big tech” movement.

Differentiate people! Reading “we moved from X to Y” does not mean everyone move from X to Y, it means start considering the Y values and research other Y’s around you.

We also use OVH, Contabo, Hostwinds... Architect so you can be multi-provider and reduce internet centralisation!

Nice, if you write an article about it, try to leave the focus off of a single hosting provider. Encouraging the differentiation is important too (next time! I’m not dogging the movement or your efforts in this article, I love to see reduced reliance of Amazon in general).

Hetzner is German?

> Hetzner is German?

Yes. Hetzner is a German company from Gunzenhausen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hetzner

Pretty sure hetzner is still a lot less in terms of provided features. There are reasons people get "amazon certified". So, aws alternatives are few and require a lot more resources to create and maintain, while alternatives to hetzner would be a lot easier to create, keeping original Hetzner prices in-check with the market.

> We need an American “get off American big tech” movement.

As a non-American, I use Hetzner precisely to have my projects not hosted anywhere near the US.

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