Hetzner/OVH are HN darlings not because of how innovative they are in features, but in pricing.
They tend to show up as submissions mostly when something bad happens (e.g. price increase), but they still show up in comments a lot when people discuss how comically expensive cloud providers are in a direct comparison and how you can be similarly effective running on such pricing-focused hosts, especially if you know how to build the redundancy yourself (or don't need it).
Wish there was a nice HN coffee table book documenting historic trends on here... from first post to current print date. Maybe just a bunch of illustrations of key words and a small foot note accompanying each
The marketing strategy for anything remotely developer-oriented is literally just to find those posts where somebody figured out the best times to submit on HN.
atonse|3 years ago
sascha_sl|3 years ago
They tend to show up as submissions mostly when something bad happens (e.g. price increase), but they still show up in comments a lot when people discuss how comically expensive cloud providers are in a direct comparison and how you can be similarly effective running on such pricing-focused hosts, especially if you know how to build the redundancy yourself (or don't need it).
depr|3 years ago
janee|3 years ago
0xbadcafebee|3 years ago