Comment by jacquesm
2 months ago
There is another factor at play here: EU hosting providers that are not owned lock, stock & barrel are few and far between and Hetzner has a very nice sales representative in the White House.
2 months ago
There is another factor at play here: EU hosting providers that are not owned lock, stock & barrel are few and far between and Hetzner has a very nice sales representative in the White House.
Can you expound on that? I'm not sure I get what you're implying.
Pretty sure they are implying that the actions of the current president/administration are causing people to re-evaluate US dependencies. I don't really understand the first half
I think in the first part they are implying that there are very few independent companies to turn to.
(I also prefer comments that are clear without insinuations).
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Ahh, the sales rep is Trump, that makes sense, thank you. I thought Jacques meant they had lobbyists somehow.
1. There's no meaningful European competition.
2. Trump is making everyone scared to use US hosting.
So they're leveraging for extra profits.
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That Trump makes us very motivated to stop relying on American tech.
This doesn't solve the issue that globalism caused. Europe doesn't make DRAM nor has the know-how to quickly bring factories online which usually take 10+ years.
We are tied to American economy and if AI companies start driving prices up not only DRAM but basically everything will become more expensive.
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You waited far too long.
That the USA is no longer seen as a stable partner for the long term and that Trump with his idiotic policies and tariffs is driving sales for the few EU hosting scale-ups that are not somehow owned by America.
Yeah, also Hetzner is smart enough to realize that a lot of people are moving to them who are "Buy EU"-driven and are less price sensitive (certainly the most valuable ones are). Hopefully they can take these higher prices and further invest into the platform.
The strongest reaction of EU would be to subsidize RIPE small LIR fees to 0€ and embrace decentralization.
What would that achieve? Here, have 1.5% discount on your subnet purchase
Maybe that could help a little, but on the other hand, there are just no more IPv4 addresses at RIPE. And European businesses seem to be very hesitant at adopting IPv6.
It's about decentralization, and IPv6 adoption is very high in Europe. Resilience means to know how to network. A large enthusiastic community of amateurs leads to skilled professionals.
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