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The right thing to do in this situation is refrain from commenting in the thread at all.

Whoever "cloudscale" is, I'm sure it's a big deal to get on the front page of HN and having a competitor sneak in their promo codes in the comment thread to snipe potential customers probably puts a damper on things.

Classy.

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Whatever the ethics of it, actually I am currently looking for a Swiss based hosting provider that looks a lot like cloudscale/exoscale. However Cloudscale is just "coming soon" and Exoscale isn't, so knowing about it was rather useful. Actually I had no idea that you could get advanced app hosting platforms like this that were regional. I thought Heroku was it.

Exoscale would get more money from me if they had hosted postgres as well as mysql though.

hi mike, we actually do have mysql available and PG is on the roadmap. https://www.exoscale.ch/add-on/mysql/

Why? It's extremely relevant, and it's useful.

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