[hunterb123]

> Hetzner is a German company, OVH is not.

> That being said, GPortal is also a German company and #3 overall,

Gportal (Ociris GmbH) is #1 in Germany, by far. 8,291 (24.2%) vs 3,380 (9.8%)

> but they're a dedicated provider of game servers, rather than commodity servers.

Why does that matter? The statement is about Minecraft servers and why Germany is popular.

Seems if you were going to name drop one to support that reasoning you'd use the most popular one.

Heztner is neither the leading Germany Minecraft provider, nor the leading overall provider, both by a wide margin.

I appreciate you joining HN to comment and clear that up though.

[der_rod]

Why they chose that example I can only speculate, perhaps it was the first name they recognised and just used as an example because they were familiar with it?

I just really didn't like the assertion that this was supposed to be some sort of advert, rather than an arbitrary pick. It certainly isn't an affiliate link or anything.

[hunterb123]

> I just really didn't like the assertion that this was supposed to be some sort of advert, rather than an arbitrary pick. It certainly isn't an affiliate link or anything.

Feel free to speculate one way or another, I'll do the same based on the data and reasoning provided.

You don't need an affiliate link to advertise btw, referer headers do just fine.

I really wasn't slamming them for advertising, just noting it was and that it didn't fit their reasoning as to why they were plugging them.

If you feel it was an arbitrary selection, that's fine. I was just expanding on the statement as to why it doesn't fit the data. I assume you concede to that right?