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A developer shares their experience moving projects from AWS to bare-metal servers with Hetzner, achieving 10x cost savings and 2x performance improvement. The piece argues that cloud services like AWS charge excessive markups (10x-100x) compared to renting or buying servers directly, and that most small-to-medium businesses

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Nov 05, 2025•26m read time•From rameerez.com

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I’m sorry, but you’ve been scammed You can just rent servers for cheap You can buy servers for even cheaper bUt ISn’T tHat sTilL tHe clOUD You’re not using the cloud wrong, it’s just expensive You won’t make friends proposing all this How did we get here?You don’t need the cloud Your servers are going to be okay You won’t have to spend your days managing servers You will learn how to use Linux, and that’s a good thing You’ll be fine