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Why are EU servers so cheap?
NekoSakura
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I've noticed that servers in the EU region are often cheaper than those in US regions. In the EU, you can buy an EPYC server or even NVMe for €2, but in the US, €2 usually only gets you an E5 with HDDs. I'm really curious as to why this is.
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i think its mostly because of the competition in EU, especially germany and netherlands, there is alot of providers like hetzner, ovh etc offering cheap hardware and bandwidth so prices keep going down
in US things are bit different, colocation, bandwidth and ipv4 costs can be higher depending on the location also EU market is really competitive so providers have to keep their prices low to get customers
thats just my opinion tho
there are a lot of middle-of-nowhere cities in the states that you're don't care or mind to run ancient xeon L5xxx with cheap power
Tafak. Did you saw fdcservers or nocix? USA has cheaper power then EU.
Hetzner, cheap?
well not the cheapest ofc but for the hardware and specs they offer i think their prices are still pretty good compared to a lot of providers
Usually, but not always. For instance we can get $7/y in US
but not in EU.
Why is EU more diversified and advanced? Because of the competition between the countries in EU. Comparing to the US, it's not a bother if a website is on a E4, because is in US anyway.
fdcservers also couldn't compare to the EU's €2 EPYC server, and nocix, as I said, uses outdated hardware.
Which provider you have in mind?
i'd guess transit plays into it too. frankfurt and amsterdam have huge exchanges right there so bandwidth is cheap, while in the US the really cheap stuff tends to sit in a couple of places that are far from a lot of the users anyway