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by volkadav 617 days ago
I was with linode for a loooong time for my personal VM-in-cloud (like 15 years). But I got an itch to check around to see if there was a cheaper option earlier this year and found that Hetzner would give me literally twice the machine for about two thirds the cost. ($6/mo vs €4~/mo, 1gb nanode vs. CX22 so 1vcpu/1gb to 2vcpu/4gb and 25gb disk to 40gb)

So far I'm happy with the service. Linode wasn't bad per se, Hetzner just offered more for less. Their admin console is a bit more spartan in comparison to Linode's, but that's not a place I spend much time anyway. If Russia glasses Finland and Germany I'd have to find another provider but I'm pretty sure I'd have bigger problems at that point than where to park my wordpress blahg and irc session, lol.

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I think if they glass Finland/Germany, then they know the US will next attempt to glass Russia, so they will launch it all at once, which of course results in all of Russia, nearly all of Europe, and the USA all being glassed and China picking up the pieces. So it’s probably better to learn Mandarin and find an AWS like data center there.