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Ask HN: How to decide between ovh/hetzner and AWS?

5 points by manishsharan ↗ HN
I am currently using AWS for my dev/QA but I hope to go live very soon. AWS makes everything almost effortless but I am not afraid of diving in when needed. I am wrestling with the idea of going with ovh as I get more bang for the buck. I have a monthly budget of approximately US$500 per month. What factors besides throughput of bare metal and low prices should I consider ?

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iSloth
For a business critical web service I would look at a decent dedicated server provider, unless you really need the API and scalability features of AWS.

OVH are great, I use them my self, however they are cheap and that's for a reason, the hardware isn't server grade and the support is almost Nill.

manishsharan
@iSloth , can you please elaborate on issues you have faced ? and how you countered them . Thanks !
manishsharan
I do not have an experience in maintainIng and keepiNG services up 24x7. I want to know what I should expect to go wrong ? If I rent servers with h/w raid, is disk failure still an issue ?
mrkmcknz
I use a combination of Hetzner and AWS.

AWS - RDS, EMR and S3 Hetzner - Crawling and CPU intensive computing

In the early days AWS allowed us to spin a crazy amount of machines up with basically no capital outlay.

Depending on your status... AWS, Rackspace and Softlayer would more than likely throw some $$ your way to play with. That could set you on your way for a couple of months.

manishsharan
when you set up hetzner + aws combination, won't lag time cause failures when communicating between AWS RDS and Hetzner server ?