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The focus is very much on web analytics with the open source tool Matomo. That is the open source alternative to Google Analytics.

Many reasons. I signed my first contract with Hetzner - I don't know how far back now that was. Hetzner was simply one of the providers that I always liked to use. Another reason for my choice was Hetzner's support. I needed to talk to a support team who actually knows their stuff, and I generally always got that really quickly on the phone.

Hetzner provides a very attractive managed product. Naturally, Hetzner's self-hosted root servers are also a really good option if you want to have a very specific configuration. The downside is that you need to do all of the admin and updates yourself. But with the managed servers, you don't need to do any of that yourself.

Your managed servers are now the much more attractive choice for me because I had to take care of everything myself with colocation. I had to install the servers; I needed to do all of the updates myself. If you really specialize in that, that's do-able. Now I do more consultant-type work, and for that, your managed servers are really my product of choice.

Yes, I've got a dedicated server for myself that I like to use for experimenting with a little bit. And that's actually how I started doing stuff with the Redis databases so that I could optimize Matomo in that regard. And I can use that server well for testing stuff.

A lot. I mean, when I consult people about using Matomo, I emphasize that we only measure things that make sense to measure. And the potential for further development with PHP is enormous. The energy that we save by doing that -- making everything more efficient -- that's certainly a pleasant side effect of it all. Maybe there will be a chance in the future that these dedicated servers could be integrated into the cloud products so that we really only use the resources that we actually need. I am curious what Hetzner is going to there in the future. You have always shown throughout the years that you can keep innovating with stuff like that, and I'm looking forward to the future.