kazanz
Joined 10 years ago
Joined 10 years ago
We're running our entire PaaS platform (Sherpa.sh) on top of Hetzner with Syself. We are 5x more affordable than Vercel and a big piece of that is because Syself allows us to operate autoscaling k8s clusters without an army of ops engineers.
We tried hetzner-k3s, and many other solutions. But ran into many of these same problems. Syself on the other hand, has solved all the sticky hardware and networking challenges at scale with their own customer operators. Plus they're support is super responsive and helpful.
The one downside, is they don't have a dashboard yet, so you need to be comfortable in the CLI. But I'm sure they are working on it.
I don't think I would manage kubernetes any other way at this point.
Our goal is to be the world’s lowest cost platform as a service. We do it by being full stack AI operationally - and using our relationships from 10 years in the space - we keep the costs crazy low and pass those savings on to our users.
Happy to answer any questions.
Meaning there is a decent moat and customer demand.
If anyone has some tips that have worked for them please share! Here are ways I've found that help on iphone:
1. Delete all time wasting app.
2. Delete all browsers on your phone (disable safari in screentime). If you "really need" some content there will be an app, or RSS feed you can tap into to get it. A light version of this would be using screentime privacy restrictions and only allowing the websites you want to view.
3. Turn off your ability to install apps in screentime so you don't install the time-wasters.
4. Have a family member/friend add the screentime passcode so you don't know it and can't turn it off when you get the first itch.
5. Put your phone in black/white mode and turn down the contrast. The apps you do have won't be as intoxicating visually so you'll spend more time in the real world.
Its crazy to me how many smart people don't realize they are only looking at the most expensive options out there.
It's like thinking the Ferraris and Porsches are your only two options for getting from point a to b
Damn, that's a sneaky one I haven't heard before. Thanks for sharing!
Crypto has made scamming easier than ever. Ironically, it probably is making it easier to track how impactful it is too.
That said, they are emerging. I'm actually working on a drop-in Vercel competitor at https://www.sherpa.sh. We're 70% lower cost by running on EU based CDN and dedicated servers (Hetzner, etc). But we had to build the relationships to solve all the above challenges first.