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nik736··on AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1
Twilio seems to be affected as well
nik736··on Migrating from AWS to Hetzner
They limit them to 7500 IOPS, as stated in their docs. It also doesn't scale with size, the limit is there for every volume of any size.
nik736··on European.cloud: A Curated Directory of EU-Based Cloud Providers
Thanks for asking! The infrastructure is actually the less interesting part for us, since our platform is written to be completely portable. The USP is the platform itself, that means the managed aspect. You can run your workload on our platform without having to worry too much about servers or infrastructure. Deployment can be done either through Git Integrations or our 1 click deployment option for popular open source services. You can scale your application up and down in seconds and additionally we try to offer every important component as an all in one solution inhouse. Think managed dbs, transactional emails, etc., those are all products we offer today.

We actually started out in 2019 by colocating our own network/server equipment in a colo facility in Frankfurt (InterXion). We are bootstrapped and since our USP is the software, not the infrastructure, we decided to partner with a reliable infrastructure company that is available globally, flexible enough and for data privacy reasons is an EU based company (there are not many!) so we could roll out our platform faster. Since we still own our own IP space and are a RIPE member, we can migrate to our own infrastructure down the road.

In this business the focus shouldn't be to own the whole "supply chain", but to deliver a reliable solution to customers. Everyone is a reseller of someone.

Nodion -> Leaseweb. Leaseweb -> Iron Mountain. Iron Mountain -> electricity companies, dark fiber, etc.

Heroku/Vercel -> AWS. AWS also uses colo facilities like Equinix, InterXion, NTT or e-shelter in Frankfurt.

nik736··on European.cloud: A Curated Directory of EU-Based Cloud Providers
There is also https://www.hetzner.com/ (IaaS), https://www.leaseweb.com/en/ (IaaS) and https://www.nodion.com/en/ (PaaS).

Disclaimer: I am the founder of Nodion.

nik736··on Apple M5 chip
If you have enough memory to load a model, but not enough bandwidth to handle it, you will get a very low token/s output.
nik736··on Apple M5 chip
This is only the base model, no upgrades yet for the Pro/Max version. The memory bandwidth is 153GB/s which is not enough to run viable open source LLM models properly.
nik736··on WTF is up with everything using Android?
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/06/meta-and-yandex-are...
nik736··on Testing a new rate-limiting service – feedback welcome
Ingress is free with most providers. Yes, of course it adds a bit pressure on the cpu, but yours would add latency, might add peering issues, additional costs, etc. and I have no control.
nik736··on Testing a new rate-limiting service – feedback welcome
For me it's not a big deal, my app autoscales and rate limit details are stored in Redis, so it's super fast. For x100 the traffic it wouldn't even need to scale since it's simply hitting Redis.
nik736··on Testing a new rate-limiting service – feedback welcome
Rails 8 introduced built in rate limiting, smilar to what you described. Since it's built in already I have no use for your service, but good luck!
nik736··on Geizhals Preisvergleich Donates USD 10k to the Perl and Raku Foundation
More friendly, less usable
nik736··on macOS Tahoe
Wow I already forgot about the touch bar. And imagine being so stubborn to keep the touch bar but introduce a physical ESC key, they lost their minds during that time.
nik736··on PgEdge Goes Open Source
Anyone has any experience with PgEdge and can tell us about reliability? :-)
nik736··on Apple Debuts iPhone 17
The Pixel is not cheaper. When comparing the Pixel 10 to the iPhone 17, the iPhone offers double the storage for the same price, while having all other iPhone features.
nik736··on macOS 26 Tahoe's Dead Canary Utility App Icons
I am probably the only one, but I like those new icons apart from the disk utility one. I think they are better than the old ones and follow more of the design standards of Tahoe (good or bad), so they fit better.
nik736··on Ask HN: Why hasn't x86 caught up with Apple M series?
What exactly is wrong with Apple hardware?
nik736··on Ask HN: Has GitHub's web UI gotten tremendously slow or is it just me?
Has nothing to do with responsive design.

They rewrote their frontend from server rendered templates to a SPA.

nik736··on Thunderbird Pro August 2025 Update
I am still waiting for the announced redesign in 2022 [0] :-)

[0]: https://www.omglinux.com/major-thunderbird-redesign-early-lo...

nik736··on iCloud Mail or Gmail?
The iCloud Mail Spam filter is weird, it filters out a lot of legit mail for me.
nik736··on Sequoia backs Zed
Is anyone actually using the collaboration features? Zed is my daily editor and I love it, but I've never touched the collaboration features, which is their "USP" when raising cash.
nik736··on Why we still build with Ruby
There is the API only mode :-)
nik736··on Mozilla Firefox Is Dying
I am still using Firefox Dev Edition as my daily browser and honestly don't care about the 3 things you mentioned. It's a solid browser, works flawlessly and stable for me. I dig the dev tools and it's "fast enough". The only thing where I think they are on the wrong track is about PWAs, I don't understand their stance at all.
nik736··on Ask HN: What toolchains are people using for desktop app development in 2025?
Electron gets a lot of hate, but the web is the future and either a PWA or electron app are the easiest cross-platform way to deliver "installable" software.
nik736··on Ask HN: What alternatives to GitHub are you using?
Self hosted Gitea with Gitea Actions. Works like a charm for me and a team of 5.
nik736··on GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation
Sorry but the GitLab UI was bad, is bad, the whole software feels clunky and slow to use and everything is nested where in comparison Gitea is simple, intuitive and straightforward, just like the old Github days. I also don't know if it's a good sign that there are a lot of UX issues?
nik736··on Ask HN: Does your on-call rotation suck? Can I join it?
Yes, this is probably the #1 reason. Alerts go off, but you don't even know if they are for real issues this time.
nik736··on Ask HN: Why does my Node.js multiplayer game lag at 500 players with low CPU?
Please also note that Hetzner is not providing CPU steal information inside of VMs. So there could be 75% steal and you wouldn't notice! It's unlikely for CCX instances, but it happened for me a lot with regular instances.
nik736··on Ask HN: To anyone who cares to read this. How old are you roughly?
33, working on web projects since I was around 12 or 13.
nik736··on Apple Notes Expected to Gain Markdown Support in iOS 26
I absolutely agree. I use it daily but it's so buggy and the search is the worst thing about it!
nik736··on Ask HN: Email Client
... and syncs all data to their servers, like the new Outlook client.
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