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Which tool should you actually buy?
Straight comparisons of the tools marketing teams are choosing between, with real prices and a clear answer at the end. No scores out of ten, no sponsored winners.
Go with
Hetzner
if you want the lowest price for raw compute and 20 TB of EU traffic, and you are fine running your own database.
Go with
DigitalOcean
if you want managed databases, managed Kubernetes, or a PaaS, and a bigger global footprint - you will pay roughly double for the same sized stack.
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