The person at the top of the thread claimed €45/month, but the configuration they're describing actually seems to be €37/month.
If you want ECC RAM, that appears to be €60/month, and it also steps up to a more powerful 8-core CPU.
Regardless, if we're talking about a "full production environment and a duplicate staging/standby environment" (to quote the person you replied to), then €60/month * (2 or 3) is still dirt cheap compared to any startup's AWS bill that I've seen.
Use cases vary, but I tend to agree that AWS/GCP/Azure is not the answer to every problem.
For someone who can fit their application onto a $4 VPS, that's obviously going to be cheaper than anything bare metal, but the cloud scales up very expensively in many cases. Bare metal isn't the answer to every problem either, but a lot of people in the industry don't seem to appreciate when it can be the right answer.
If you want ECC RAM, that appears to be €60/month, and it also steps up to a more powerful 8-core CPU.
Regardless, if we're talking about a "full production environment and a duplicate staging/standby environment" (to quote the person you replied to), then €60/month * (2 or 3) is still dirt cheap compared to any startup's AWS bill that I've seen.
Use cases vary, but I tend to agree that AWS/GCP/Azure is not the answer to every problem.
For someone who can fit their application onto a $4 VPS, that's obviously going to be cheaper than anything bare metal, but the cloud scales up very expensively in many cases. Bare metal isn't the answer to every problem either, but a lot of people in the industry don't seem to appreciate when it can be the right answer.