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Someone asked me why I didn't put my personal web server on AWS instead of on Hetzner. Because on AWS it would be 10x more expensive for the same specs. The cloud makes *no* sense for personal 24x7 "it just does its thing" long-term workloads.
The cheapest dedicated servers go for €15-€25/mo. €25 on Hetzner gets you a 4C8T Xeon, 16GB RAM, 2x3TB HDD, unlimited traffic €25 on AWS gets you 1C2T, 2GB RAM, 200GB storage, 1GB out/mo before they start charging extra
The cloud's great if you're a company with money to burn, or need hourly/minutely pricing, or dynamic scaling, or just want to use all those managed services they offer and not have to deal with admining them.
But if you just want "a Linux box for a pile of personal projects/sites that just sits there and works"? You're throwing money away if you spin up a cloud instance, unless your resource usage is small enough that you get into a pricing tier below the cheapest dedicated servers.
And if you're doing more than one thing you're better off with a single large server rather than multiple small instances, plus unless you're all-in on containers/"let other people configure my stuff" (which only works for a subset of things) it means more boxes to admin.
If you need better reliability in case of hardware failure, and you know what you're doing, you're still better off just renting two servers and doing DRBD and floating an IP or something like that, depending on what services you run.
Heck even at three servers and a Pacemaker cluster (so you can do quorum) you're still doing it cheaper, and then you get some experience with HA platforms :-) (of course, that also takes more time to set up and admin)
Also, with unlimited bandwidth, you don't need to worry about "oops, my backups failed and ran in a loop / someone DoSed me / I got redditted / someone pointed their Docker at an image I host for their entire cluster" and suddenly you have a $1k bill.
One gigabyte out per month? That's like nothing :D Hetzner is sort of critical when it comes to privacy. As long as you don't do some illegal sh!t on it they won't care about you, but if you do, they'll cooperate with the local Police department in Falkenstein / Nuremberg
Not like cloud providers are going to stand up for you in that case either. The dodgiest stuff I do on this server is of the "well if someone *really* cares (unlikely) they might send a takedown" level, in which case I'd just take it down, so I'm not too concerned.
You're right, but bear in mind if you're really running it 24-7 that's what reserved instances are designed for; it's not efficient to run 24-7 servers on on-demand ec2 hardware. You could get something more like 2C 8GB RAM w/ 5GB out with an RI https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/t3/ …
Still not ideal if you don't need all the AWS bells and whistles of course, and you have the whole RI thing too, but the price difference doesn't have to be that stark for everyone
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