🧵 We moved from Google Cloud to Hetzner and cut infrastructure costs by 80%. Here's what I learned:

Same workloads, same reliability, actually better performance for our use case. Main thing we lost: 47 GCP console screens to find a simple setting.

GCP isn't bad - it's powerful and right for many cases. But somewhere the industry decided "real" companies must use hyperscalers. That's marketing, not engineering.

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