alt Hacker NewsA few months ago, I looked into AWS alternatives for my small SaaS side project. My main motivations were to save money and maybe support some EU cloud providers. At first, I planned to go with Hetzner and accepted that I would need to do a lot of things myself.
However, the dealbreaker for me was that Hetzner IPs have a bad reputation. At work, I learned that one of the managed AWS firewall rules blocks many (maybe all) of their IPs. I can’t even open a website hosted on a Hetzner IP from my work laptop because it’s blocked by some IT policy (maybe this is not an issue for you if you are using CloudFlare or similar).
I've read online that the DDoS protection is very bad as well.
So in the end, I picked DO App Platform in one of the EU regions. Having the option to use a managed DB was a big plus as well.
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Not sure what firewall rules you're referring to, but I'm genuinely surprised to see DO being trusted more than Hetzner. I often see DO's ASN when looking at scrapers/hackers, so I'd say it's only a matter of time until they're blocked as well.
DO IPs are way worse.
source: moved away from DO for this very reason.
I wrote about this on a Tor thread.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47279518
It looks like Hetzner is Tor (and Tor adjacent) friendly, I suggested this might affect IP reputation, 2 users responded they had no IP reputation issues. But it looks like that wasn't quite the whole story
https://community.torproject.org/relay/community-resources/g...
It seems that Hetzner holds 7% of the Tor network. (if I understood the table right)
ironically, blocking aws and azure solved 99% of my bot problems. zero users affected.
so much that I'm thinking of selling nothing but an aws and azure blocker as a service.
How convenient for Amazon to block a competitor this way :(