Today I received a scary looking letter from abuse@hetzner.de, which is my German hosting provider. The text started as follows:

We have received a notification from the German Federal Office for Information Security...

Knowing how notorious German laws are when it comes to intellectual property, I immediately thought: "What did I do?" and "How big is the fine?" To my best knowledge, my blog doesn't violate any rules, yet I didn't expect a message from a Federal Office without any wrongdoing.

Photo by Maria Tyutina

A couple of months ago, Amazon raised prices for their Lightsail VPS service which I was using. I decided to move to another provider to save some money and get more performance. My Lightsail plan wasn't that powerful at all, and eventually I got x4 RAM with Hetzner for almost half the price!

In the post you'll find the table I used to compare various providers.