[deeddy]

The main reason is that they are based locally, they charge in EUR, you can get the VAT back, and they are much more affordable than AWS.

[earthnail]

AWS / GCP can invoice with EU reverse charge so I don’t even pay VAT. With Hetzner I have to claim it back at the end of the year.

Hetzner is just way cheaper and pricing is more predictable. I don’t need any advanced cloud offerings. And yes, being outside the US is another advantage rn.

[Hetzner_OL]

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[mike97]

> AWS / GCP can invoice with EU reverse charge so I don’t even pay VAT. With Hetzner I have to claim it back at the end of the year.

Hetzner can do the same as long as you have a valid VAT code.

[cromka]

You mean EU-Vat. And if don't have your business registered in Germany.

[andy_ppp]

I'm still amazed my company is paying £10k per month for AWS when they could have one or two servers on Hetzner do the whole thing.

[em500]

It's not "the company" that makes such decisions, but some senior managers or directors who do. They don't see a penny extra in their paycheck for savings money, but they are on the hook if anything goes wrong with less mainstream tech choices.

[inigyou]

I'm amazed any company pays AWS for servers. I can get if you're paying for a service like media transcoding, but to put it in perspective, AWS normal prices are now about on par with Hetzner's 5x-increased-due-to-the-crisis new price for new servers

[speedgoose]

Hetzner increased their prices a lot last month. It makes having hardware on premise worth thinking about again.

[kingstnap]

Given current prices I doubt anyone is itching at the bone to spec out hardware.

Idk where you would even buy registered DDR5 dims right now. Newegg shows $Request a quote money and that its built to order ... for a 64 GB stick lol.

[khurs]

I think primary reasons are that:

-data is kept in EU,

-lower latency for SSH if nearer

-most companies's are not global, and so most of their customers are going to be in the same country or nearby so makes sense to keep near the serves close.