Hacker News: Medowar

New comment by Medowar in "I am building a cloud"

Medowar — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 09:00:44 +0000

That is a bit of a unfair comparison. The Hetzner and DO instances are shared hosting, you are using dedicated ressources.

Using a Netcup VPS 1000 G12 is more comparable.

read: IOPS=18.7k, BW=73.1MiB/s

write: IOPS=8053, BW=31.5MiB/s

Latency Read avg: 5.39 ms, P99.9: 85.4 ms, max 482.6 ms

Write avg: 3.36 ms, P99.9: 86.5 ms, max 488.7 ms

New comment by Medowar in "Cursor: Frontier Models Moving to Max Mode for Legacy Team/Enterprise Plans"

Medowar — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 09:59:12 +0000

all Team and Enterprise accounts still on legacy request-based pricing

New comment by Medowar in "Google Safe Browsing missed 84% of confirmed phishing sites"

Medowar — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 16:16:41 +0000

> We also ran the full dataset of 263 URLs (254 phishing, 9 confirmed legitimate) through Muninn's automatic scan. This is the scan that runs on every page you visit without any action on your part. On its own, the automatic scan correctly identified 238 of the 254 phishing sites and only incorrectly flagged 6 legitimate pages. [...] The tradeoff is that it flagged all 9 of the legitimate sites in our dataset as suspicious, ...

Am I missing something or is that a 66%/100% False Positive Rate on legitimate Sites?

If GSB would have that ratio, it would be absolute unusable.. So comparing these two is absolutely wrong...

New comment by Medowar in "Hetzner continues its growth in the US with a new location"

Medowar — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 17:15:09 +0000

Amazon egress changes depends on the region of the s3 data location.

Bandwith cost highly depends on the scale and target network. Cloudflare has a good blogpost on relative bandwith cost: https://blog.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-costs-around-the-world...

To put numbers to the relativity, for a somewhat smaller datacenter in Central Europe with a 100Gbit/s connection, the running Cost of transit is somewhere around 0.00004€ per GB, on a theoretically fully sustained connection(not realistic, also with no redundancy or hardware). Peering is basically free(after initial buildout) with around 3k€ per 100Gbit/s (https://www.ams-ix.net/ams/pricing). This all excludes cost of investment for initial buildout and hardware. On a scale on amazons level this becomes even cheaper, since operating your own network is cheaper than buying transit.

Hetzner charges 1,19€ per TB, amazon 90$(on the first 10 TB). So amazon probably doesnt really care about the price differences per region and went with a mixed calculation, since their margins are so absurdly huge.

also, major parts of the cost are in hardware and staffing/development, of which amazon has way more, due to the demands of SDN.

New comment by Medowar in "Germany has seized control of Gazprom Germania"

Medowar — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 11:31:34 +0000

More Background, why this is in fact important: Gazprom Germania is also a critical part of the german Gas-Market, because it owns the largest gas-Storage with 1/5 of total capacity in Germany, major Gas Pipelines and Platforms for trading the ressource. This is both through Sub-companies Wingas and Astora.

It also has contracts with Gazprom in Russia with guaranteed Prices and Deliveries.

New comment by Medowar in "Spotify and Google Announce User Choice Billing"

Medowar — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 20:38:55 +0000

You seem to mix up Spotify and Shopify. The Announcement is made by Spotify, you talk about Shopify. But interestingly, your point still stands, as Spotify is also a big Google Cloud customer.

New comment by Medowar in "Cloudflare have made it impossible for me to unsubscribe from marketing emails"

Medowar — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 11:52:02 +0000

In better companies, where legal blocks marketing from pulling stuff like that, this is not necesarry.

New comment by Medowar in "Apple unveils contactless payments via Tap to Pay on iPhone"

Medowar — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 16:45:50 +0000

..just dont go to Germany. We are not very advanced in that regard.

Of course huge amounts of stores offer contactless paying, but generally Cash is still dominant around here. Change is slow, and currently, Cash is still king, especially with small or street merchants.

New comment by Medowar in "Equipping backbone networks with DNS resolution infrastructures"

Medowar — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 13:53:55 +0000

All big public DNS Resolvers are US-based. Google, Cloudflare, OpenDNS(Cisco). Quad9 is Swiss-based, so technicaly not EU-based.

New comment by Medowar in "DDoS protection"

Medowar — Sat, 03 Sep 2016 13:54:36 +0000

nope, nothing. it was something like 45 tb

New comment by Medowar in "DDoS protection"

Medowar — Thu, 01 Sep 2016 14:41:46 +0000

correction, 1,17€/TB

New comment by Medowar in "DDoS protection"

Medowar — Thu, 01 Sep 2016 14:40:00 +0000

nah, wrong. If you go over the allowed bandwith, you can get either limited to 10Mbit/s or pay 1,37€ per TB. In comparison, this is pretty cheap, but that is about waht you pay, when you buy transit. Source: https://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/Traffic/en

New comment by Medowar in "DDoS protection"

Medowar — Thu, 01 Sep 2016 14:25:23 +0000

online.net kicked us out for using too much of an unmetered network connection.

New comment by Medowar in "Creative Computing Magazine"

Medowar — Mon, 27 Jun 2016 06:19:22 +0000

Put them on archive.org? https://archive.org/upload/

New comment by Medowar in "Introducing docs.microsoft.com"

Medowar — Wed, 04 May 2016 10:30:54 +0000

All Documentations for Docs are available on Github. They are not all in the same repo, but grouped by topic.

Azure? git clone https://github.com/Azure/azure-content.git

Azure RMS? git clone https://github.com/Microsoft/Azure-RMSDocs.git

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