maksim

Keep AWS. SAP certs are for consultants who wear suits. AWS is what you actually use.

I was in Strasbourg datacenter too. Not total loss for me because I had rsync to Hetzner Falkenstein running every 6 hours. Took 2 days to get DNS switched, but data was there.

OVH compensation was 1 month credit. Took 6 weeks to arrive. I moved everything to Hetzner after, never looked back.

In Latvia we have this problem with VAT. Many US hosts quote ex-VAT, then 21% lands at checkout. A price tracker that does not capture the final invoice total is tracking fiction. I scrape the cart flow, not the marketing page.

In Latvia we have host that published costs for three months. Then their colocation provider raised price. They tried to explain. Customers called them liars in reviews.

Transparency is trap. Better to be cheap and quiet.

In Russia, server hosts you. But here in Riga, we learn from neighbor. Promise nothing, deliver something.

Contabo price is EUR, RackNerd is USD. With exchange rate now, your DR is getting cheaper or more expensive? Nobody talk about this in tier discussion. Currency risk is real risk.

If you want storage only, cloud ok. If you want plex, cloud bad. Latency what kills. 4k stream from another country? Not good.

In my country bandwidth cheap, electricity cheap. Nas makes sense. Your country maybe different. No universal answer. )))))

Bytearray good for backup target. Not good for...

I run four machines at RackNerd, two annual two monthly. Annual machines stable for two years, monthly I move around for better route. No one size fits all, what you want decides. Price not only factor.

In Latvia we cannot afford 14 VPS. I have two, on Hetzner. One runs monitoring, one runs everything else. If monitoring dies, I know because the other one is also down. This is not sophisticated but it is cheap.

Less daemon memory. )))) I run 8 containers on 512MB with alpine, no problem. What you want is also disable cgroups v2, saves little bit. Kernel is hungry on ubuntu, try alpine host.))))

docker is bloat. What you want is static binaries in container, no shell. My config: nginx static, go app, prom...