Contabo vs. Hetzner vs. Linode vs. Digital Ocean for Discourse Hosting Under $30/mo

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If anyone wants to test and compare – at the moment I have 2 identical instances of Discourse populated only with the fake data:

[Note: either or both of these sites may be intermittently down as I use them at the moment for learning and testing!]

Instance 1 - Hetzner Dedicated Server (location: Helsinki Finland) ($42 monthly)

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Instance 2 - Contabo Cloud VPS (location: Missouri, USA) ($27 monthly)

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