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0 pointscuuupid1y ago0 comments

Bingo, lots of people are loud about this online and many influencers screaming about this on Twitter, so it’s easy to conflate that as a pressing issue. Ultimately a thousand indie devs mad about bandwidth extortion are still making up less than 1% of a serious company’s revenue for AWS.

I’ve liked using Hetzner before and I’m curious how they’ll go after the market now. This is probably the wrong move though; Cloudflare realized this same fact some time ago but they kept their prices low to avoid cultivating ill will.

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ghaff1y ago· 1 in thread

There probably are a number of things about AWS (see also no hard price caps) that people on forums froth at the mouth about but which most customers AWS actually cares about are largely indifferent about.

Aeolun1y ago

Can confirm that the enterprise I work for does not care one whit about the odd $5k mistake. It's all a drop in a bucket anyway.

high_na_euv1y ago

What do you mean?

News Hacker isnt representative sample that also understands the insustry and the business?

TeMPOraL1y ago

> lots of people are loud about this online and many influencers screaming about this on Twitter, so it’s easy to conflate that as a pressing issue. Ultimately a thousand indie devs mad about bandwidth extortion are still making up less than 1% of a serious company’s revenue for AWS.

So basically, by getting worked up publicly about this, those people provide free marketing for Hetzner?

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