<story><title>Stackit: Cloud and Colocation</title><url>https://www.stackit.de/en</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gpjanik</author><text>Wasn&amp;#x27;t sure if April fools or not. German companies have launched so many of those &amp;quot;rivals&amp;quot; to AWS by now, all of them require you to call someone&amp;#x2F;send a letter&amp;#x2F;FAX to create a VM. I wonder if they understand that the success of cloud, SaaS and generally majority of modern, scalable businesses comes from the fact that it _can_ be self-served.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>KingOfCoders</author><text>&amp;quot;all of them require you to call someone&amp;#x2F;send a letter&amp;#x2F;FAX to create a VM.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Have ordered servers from Hetzner online for the last 20 years, since their cloud offering via API&amp;#x2F;cli.</text></comment>
<story><title>Stackit: Cloud and Colocation</title><url>https://www.stackit.de/en</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gpjanik</author><text>Wasn&amp;#x27;t sure if April fools or not. German companies have launched so many of those &amp;quot;rivals&amp;quot; to AWS by now, all of them require you to call someone&amp;#x2F;send a letter&amp;#x2F;FAX to create a VM. I wonder if they understand that the success of cloud, SaaS and generally majority of modern, scalable businesses comes from the fact that it _can_ be self-served.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>flexie</author><text>We&amp;#x27;ve used Hetzner for years. We never called or faxed them.
Great service, by the way.</text></comment>