At Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:34:14 +0100, Thomas Krichel wrote: > > Roy Tennant writes > > > I'd also be interested in getting some real world cost information. I > > installed an app on EC2 that went mostly unused for a couple months but > > meanwhile racked up over $300 in charges. Color me surprised. > > I am not impressed by Amazon either. I have an instance given to me > by a sponsor, and there I have been taken aback by the old Debian > kernel version this puts me in. > > I rent three root servers with Hetzner.de. That's for large-scale work. > To run a blog, a 3TB disk 16 Gig ram box from Hetzner is overkill. > With Hetzner you have the exchange rate risk but the cost structure > is much simpler. Another satisfied customer. best, Erik Hetzner PS: But seriously, no relation.