Under 50,000 users, a single team, and no compliance-driven isolation requirements? You don't need Kubernetes. A VM with Docker Compose runs the same workload at a tenth of the operational cost. Here's the honest decision test.
We deploy client projects on both Vercel and Hetzner. Here's a real cost comparison — with actual numbers from production workloads — and a framework for choosing between them.
Only 4% of global cloud capacity is European-owned. The US CLOUD Act undermines data sovereignty. Here's our complete production stack built entirely on European providers.
