For alternatives we can recommend Hetzner US Cloud [1] which was the best US Cloud provider we've found that works out to be an order of magnitude less expensive than equivalent specs on Azure/AWS and also includes 20TB free bandwidth that would cost a fortune in AWS/Azure's artificially inflated egress costs [2].
The UX behind managing instances is delightfully pleasant where new instances are available faster than any other cloud provider we've used, within seconds of creating an instance you can immediately login with your configured SSH keys. Another nice feature is being able to "rescale" your instance to higher specs after a restart [3], so you can confidentially start with a small instance that just meets your current workload knowing that you can easily scale up your instances as your workload increases.
AWS RDS was the only critical service keeping us on AWS, a service we no longer need in our new Apps which we're building with SQLite thanks to the effortless replication in Litestream [4] that we're using to replicate to Cloudflare R2 - another great value alternative S3 alternative with $0 egress fees [5] where you can get even greater value & performance when hosting behind their free CDN.
If you're considering using Hetzner I'd also like to humbly recommend you try/sign up for Nimbus[0] -- I'm building a managed service provider for people running on Hetzner, and basic cache support will be out within the week.
If you want services like Redis on a semi-managed provider like Hetzner but don't want to write the bash scripts/Terraform/etc or hook up networking/TLS and run it yourself, Nimbus is for you.
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For alternatives we can recommend Hetzner US Cloud [1] which was the best US Cloud provider we've found that works out to be an order of magnitude less expensive than equivalent specs on Azure/AWS and also includes 20TB free bandwidth that would cost a fortune in AWS/Azure's artificially inflated egress costs [2].
The UX behind managing instances is delightfully pleasant where new instances are available faster than any other cloud provider we've used, within seconds of creating an instance you can immediately login with your configured SSH keys. Another nice feature is being able to "rescale" your instance to higher specs after a restart [3], so you can confidentially start with a small instance that just meets your current workload knowing that you can easily scale up your instances as your workload increases.
AWS RDS was the only critical service keeping us on AWS, a service we no longer need in our new Apps which we're building with SQLite thanks to the effortless replication in Litestream [4] that we're using to replicate to Cloudflare R2 - another great value alternative S3 alternative with $0 egress fees [5] where you can get even greater value & performance when hosting behind their free CDN.
[1] https://www.hetzner.com/cloud
[2] https://servicestack.net/blog/finding-best-us-value-cloud-pr...
[3] https://bizanosa.com/how-to-upgrade-resize-hetzner-cloud-ser...
[4] https://docs.servicestack.net/ormlite/litestream
[5] https://www.cloudflare.com/products/r2/
If you're considering using Hetzner I'd also like to humbly recommend you try/sign up for Nimbus[0] -- I'm building a managed service provider for people running on Hetzner, and basic cache support will be out within the week.
If you want services like Redis on a semi-managed provider like Hetzner but don't want to write the bash scripts/Terraform/etc or hook up networking/TLS and run it yourself, Nimbus is for you.
[0]: https://nimbusws.com