You'd be surprised. There are very few because it takes a lot more work to build reliable systems across mid-market cloud providers (flakey APIs, missing functionality, etc). Plus you need to know the idiosyncrasies of all the various frameworks + build systems.
That said, they are emerging. I'm actually working on a drop-in Vercel competitor at https://www.sherpa.sh. We're 70% lower cost by running on EU based CDN and dedicated servers (Hetzner, etc). But we had to build the relationships to solve all the above challenges first.
We're running our entire PaaS platform (Sherpa.sh) on top of Hetzner with Syself. We are 5x more affordable than Vercel and a big piece of that is because Syself allows us to operate autoscaling k8s clusters without an army of ops engineers.
We tried hetzner-k3s, and many other solutions. But ran into many of these same problems. Syself on the other hand, has solved all the sticky hardware and networking challenges at scale with their own customer operators. Plus they're support is super responsive and helpful.
The one downside, is they don't have a dashboard yet, so you need to be comfortable in the CLI. But I'm sure they are working on it.
I don't think I would manage kubernetes any other way at this point.
Hi, Sherpa.sh founder here. Thanks for posting indigodaddy.
Our goal is to be the world’s lowest cost platform as a service. We do it by being full stack AI operationally - and using our relationships from 10 years in the space - we keep the costs crazy low and pass those savings on to our users.
This is actually a decent idea. I have a friend that’s in the brewing space running a small local brewery and can’t do non alcoholic as it is too capital intensive at his scale. But his customers want options.
Meaning there is a decent moat and customer demand.
Wish I could say I'm surprised you're getting downvotes. Carrier costs are some of the lowest costs for hosting providers. Yet that fact seems to elude a majority of the community here.
That said, they are emerging. I'm actually working on a drop-in Vercel competitor at https://www.sherpa.sh. We're 70% lower cost by running on EU based CDN and dedicated servers (Hetzner, etc). But we had to build the relationships to solve all the above challenges first.