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		somebodythere on Feb 19, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tell HN: I got 10x Hetzner storage at the same pri... I think it's just about latency. If most of your users/employees are located in NA, it doesn't make much sense to give them degraded network experience to save few Euros on hosting costs.

sshine on Feb 19, 2022 [–]

It’s not a few euros. It’s easily a factor 10-20 in costs.

somebodythere on Feb 21, 2022 | [–]

Compared to AWS et al, sure. But there are plenty cloud services with datacenters in USA that are similarly cost-effective.

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