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		csdreamer7 on June 28, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How we got our AWS bill to around 2% of revenue Just looked at contabo.com Am I reading this right? 4 cores, 8 gigs of ram, 200 gigs SSD for 4.99 euro a month? That is around $5.60 USD a month. That feels too cheap to be true. What's the catch over ec2 or Digital Ocean?

corobo on June 28, 2020 [–]

Admittedly I've only seen a couple of sources but it looks like their tactics are as old as their website design. Good old fashioned overselling.

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