Imagine you would like run 2 x vCPU and 4 GB RAM virtual machine. Which service provider do you choose? Azure, AWS or Hetzner? With AWS you pay 65 USD (c5.large instance… and by the way why this is called large at all?). You pick Microsoft Azure you pay 36 Euro (B2s). If you would pick DigitealOcean then you pay 24 USD (noname “droplet”). Choosing Scaleway you pay 19 Euro (PLAY2-NANO compute instance in Warsaw DC). However, with Hetzner Cloud you pay as little as 4.51 Euro (CX22 virtual server). How is that even possible? So it goes like this