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		jsjohnst on Jan 13, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Deploy your side-projects at scale for basically n... A lot of things related to hosting (land, power, cooling, bandwidth) are cheaper in Germany versus where Linode and DigitalOcean are located.

sweeneyrod on Jan 13, 2020 [–]

Sure, but 8x cheaper? And I think most non-European hosting companies have datacentres in Europe; I assumed they'd compete on price but apparently not.

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