Ask HN: Which cloud provider do you like best and why?
Which ones have you tried? Which one do you find is the best and for what purposes? What tools and features make it better than the alternatives?
Which ones have you tried? Which one do you find is the best and for what purposes? What tools and features make it better than the alternatives?
I've been using Hetzner for my business and have been quite happy with it so far. I recently migrated to a slightly larger bare metal server with 64GB RAM, 16 cores, 4 SSDs (6.5TB in total), and unlimited bandwidth for $96 bucks.
I've been a customer of Big Cloud and Small Cloud (DO, Linode).
I'm getting disillusioned with the big clouds, all of the reports about account hacking, 20m to find how much you have to pay for a thing in a thing you didn't know that needs to be paid for...
Co-location or a VPS seems like a best choice in all cases except when you're an enterprise.
We've quite enjoyed Linode (Akamai) for some custom servers (not http) over the last few years because they include DDOS scrubbing; it's not clear to what extent they'll defend us but our last partner would routinely null-route our servers when attacked and we haven't had any problems since we switched.
No love for DigitalOcean yet? Managed Kubernetes at around $60/month. Terraform with GitHub Actions works out perfectly.
Yep, I've a number of apps on their App Platform and it works great.
Digital ocean! They make those awesome blog posts about how to do easy tech stuff I should really have memorized and really don’t want to admit I have to look up.
Here’s my rundown:
AWS because I know how it breaks, Google Cloud if you’re starting from scratch due to great DX, Oracle Cloud if you trust them to not go all Oracle with it someday since it’s solid tech, Azure if you spent Thanksgiving dinner eating crayons at the kids’ table, IBM “Cloud” if you hate your company and yourself.
Guess it does not count as cloud but I like BunnyCDN for CDN and Hetzner for VPS.
Google Cloud
1. Best DX
2. faster, cheaper, most secure
3. Google is a thought leader in the cloud space (among many)
That being said, I also like Cloudflare a lot
Heroku when you just want your app to work forever without having to think about it.
Azure web gui is really nice.
Which cloud provider do you like best and why?
BenderCloud: just a bunch of VPS and physical server providers
I like my cloud best because I can shift financial resources to the provider behaving the best and dial down those that are misbehaving. I do not utilize any vendor-specific services for my hobby junk. It also means if a vendor tries to passive-aggressively cancel me I can just flip DNS and stop rewarding them with money.
I like AWS because they charge too much.
I like GCP because they overcomplicate everything. (That api is not available because 1. You have to activate it 2. Your permissions don’t allow it 3. Your quota is exceeded 4. It is deprecated 5. It is in alpha 6. All of the above)
I like azure because it’s just like AWS but with a bunch of unwanted windows support that will actively make everything worse.
Hetzner was cool, but they do some insane routing things.
OVH seems like they came to the party a decade late even though they were here day one.
That’s all I know.
Personal projects - Render and Railway.
Serious uncomplicated work shit - AWS
Serious complicated work shit - GCP
Because they pay for my dinner dates - Azure
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