Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server

It is absolutely nuts to me that this machine:

AMD Ryzen™ 7 3700X CPU 8 cores / 16 threads @ 3.6 GHz Generation: Matisse (Zen2) RAM 64 GB DDR4 ECC

Drives 4 x 22 TB HDD 2 x 1 TB SSD

is only 104 euros a month on Hetzner.

The STORAGE alone would cost $1624 a month in most clouds

The connection count costs also balloon on most cloud providers (any busy protocol like telemetry or log-consolidation costs can be huge.)

If your group pushes over 23TiB/Month, than most usually look for un-metered colo hosts, and or CDN services with your resource integrity Attribute tags set.

Cloud makes sense for small IT shops that can't afford a fully staffed team. The general rule is a 5:1 labor to hardware cost amortized over 3 years.

AWS was successful as IT had enormous upfront costs most people found difficult to justify, and data-centers could absorb a DDoS that would be expensive to mitigate.

Rule #17: "Only forward meaningful data at every layer of a design, as it often naturally ensures a feasible convergent behavior."

There are a number of great options, but depends on the use-cases. =3