Comment by huijzer
3 years ago
Since everyone is all of a sudden voting for managed databases, maybe there is a reason why Hetzner is so cheap and the reason is that they focus on the core and not on satisfying all kinds of feature requests?
3 years ago
Since everyone is all of a sudden voting for managed databases, maybe there is a reason why Hetzner is so cheap and the reason is that they focus on the core and not on satisfying all kinds of feature requests?
It's not "all kinds of feature requests", if you think about it.
IT is basically 2 things, at its core:
* compute
* storage
Hetzner offers cheap compute, which is great because modern applications can have stateless web/app servers.
Now, the missing part is storage, and that's much harder and riskier since it's state, inherently. A server dies, you lose stuff if you misconfigure it.
So people want a fully managed IT solution.
It's simple and it's obvious conceptually, just hard.
And I guess Hetzner won't do it because it's hard thus expensive to do.
There already are full managed solutions. They’re 5x more expensive. It sounds to me like people expect the whole managed experience but 5x cheaper, which is never going to happen.