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Honestly, I don't get the pricing. (this applies to Heroku too, but they use Amazon). A bare metal server like this[1] priced at 130 EU/month should easily host (let's be generous and not oversell the CPUs) at least 100 containers at 20 EU/month = 2000 EU/month. Even with all the convenience of a PaaS, this doesn't seem like a good deal.

[1] http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/px120

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Founder here.

1. when we'll charge a credit card (which should happen in the coming weeks as we're incorporating the company), we'll be already cheaper than Heroku in a price/performance ratio 2. to be honest we're more pessimistic than you about the number of containers that we can host on a single server like the one you cited (at Appsdeck we use only SSD equipped servers with more cores than in the machine you cited)

That said, our price could change a little bit depending on the real workload that our cluster can handle in real life.

How many containers would you fit on a similar server? SSDs you say? ok, here: http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/px120ss... same config with SSDs instead, only +10 EUR/month...

As a happy (small time) Hetzner customer, I concur, I don't think it's quite so rosy as parent hints at. The most crucial part: look at the bandwidth. Peek at 1Gbps (probably more like 5-600 after overhead), guaranteed 200 Mbps. If you divide that by 100, that's just 2Mbps guaranteed bandwidth per container! Sure, you can oversell, but then you're in a different game.

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