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Your M chip Mac book pro is actually more powerful than the medium or large AWS instances. Just because it runs like a champ on your machine doesn’t mean it’ll run like that on production.

the corollary: AWS charges like $300/mo to rent hardware that compares to the toaster you are developing on. cloud hardware comes at a tremendous premium. this includes GCP, Azure, vercel, fly, and all managed DB solutions. if you are on a budget, consider baremetal from day 1.

hubs

Some really cool stats of which countries hubs are running

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https://warpcast.com/jj/0xfbd55de9

I did an analysis of hubs and the distribution of them and turns out the reason why there are so many hubs in Germany is because Hetzner is so cheap

Full-stack digital product consultant @ BoundCorp.net - Regenfrogs.xyz - goldmongers.xyz - Reno NV

makes sense! i think i remember that eth mainnet also had a significant proportion of validators on hetzner too, for a while, until they disallowed it (but i kept running mine on hetzner for another 6mo+ without any hassle)

vultr is also underrated here, slightly pricier but still *very* attractive baremetal prices