For a service I am working on, I was considering paid CDN, but they were all cost prohibitive for what I expected the usage to be. So I wrote my own CDN(2k lines of code with peer state synchronisation). But Bunny always seemed to be the best bang for the buck. I think they are from Slovenia, so that is a plus in my book.
i wanted to do the same when i got fed up with bt clients. but then i found there already are go clients and i found i like qbt. but it is a good read nevertheless.
Past two years, i've been working on sales platform for digital content creators where they can sell digital content(files), online courses or memberships to access content. I'll be going online next month, hopefully. Right now I am refactoring front-end into production design. Front-end eats always the most time, and i still have things to do in relation to servers/infra and testing. It took this long because i manage the finances(i do not use stripe or any other 3rd party service) and it uses event sourcing, which has large overhead. But i am almost there. Hope to go online next month, beta-test in production for Q2 with small amount of users, and come Q3 go into full production.
i am so glad my sign up process with hetzner failed when i was so dumb that i wanted to give them a chance even with the internet full of horrific stories of bad experiences from their customers. lucky me.
Hetzner is fine for what it is, you just need to know that it's all on you and only YOU.
YOU do the monitoring.
YOU do the troubleshooting.
YOU etc., etc.
If that doesn't appeal to you, or if you don't have the requisite knowledge, which I admit is fairly broad and encompassing, then it's not for you. For those of you that meet those checkboxes, they're a pretty amazing deal.
Where else could I get a 4c/8t CPU with 32 GB of RAM and four (4) 6TB disks for $38 a month? I really don't know of many places with that much hardware for that little cost. And yes, it's an Intel i7-3770, but I don't care. It's still a hell of a lot of hardware for not much price.
We had been colocating servers from decades but there is too much "YOU", compared to that we find Hetzner doing a lot for us (hardware inventory, replacement, remote hands, networking etc). We are slowly moving away from colocating to renting at Hetzner. It is so much better.
I am on w10 and i have ripped out entire defender and all that security crap. i've been online for quarter of a century and never caught a virus or got hacked. all these security features are waste of hardware resources. i can easily see this being much worse on w11.
Well, you should do cost analysis BEFORE you go to court. That does not mean just how much money you should get out but also whether the other side is even capable of paying.
i've been making websites since 2000. i've seen the internet change and made couple of projects during my life, none took off. as time went, i realized this golden era of online businesses is long gone and everything has been monopolized and bought out by the big tech companies and that money for ads is what matters the most these days. right now i am finalizing my last project that i will ever make, for this reason. it will be 2.5 years of work in march, when i will be releasing it. the only reason i am going for it and i stuck with working on it full-time this whole time is because it is a type of business where customers will come on their own and will want to use it because it provides them with a new sales channel so competition is actually good for them. it flips the usual business model on its head. otherwise i would have quit a long time ago. my hopes up to get it going this year and make 1M in sales next year and hope to be able to focus on growing it for many years to come.
