Ask HN: Any cheaper but good alternatives to DigitalOcean?

UpCloud seems to have the best performance but all of these apart from Hetzner charge $40/month for a cloud server with 4 cores and 8 GB of ram. Hetzner gives me twice as much memory at half of the price, but performance isn’t great from my testing/benchmarking, especially concerning the storage. I will probably need 7 servers for my setup initially with 4 cores and at least 8 GB of ram and decent storage performance.

Source: news.ycombinator.com