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Re: Ask HN: Best value/price dedicated servers in US and Europe?

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Post by scalesolved » Tue, Jan 06, 2015, 5:48 PM UTC

msantos wrote: post #5

Europe: http://www.hetzner.de/uk/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver and http://www.1and1.co.uk

I actually found Hetzner super reliable, I used it in a previous role and it was great value for money. I have a blog post about setting up and using Hetzner, might be useful! http://scalabilitysolved.com/build-a-kick-ass-couchbase-stac...

Re: Ask HN: Best value/price dedicated servers in US and Europe?

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Post by freerk » Tue, Jan 06, 2015, 6:20 PM UTC

Cheap root server providers, mostly in Germany if nothing mentioned otherwise, all with own infrastructure (no resellers) and my personal experience. Note that prices mentioned in Germany are almost all the time incl. VAT, so you might be able so save 19% on those prices.

https://www.hetzner.de/us/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver - Hands down my favorite. Very powerful hardware for the price, very professional, good network

https://www.webtropia.com/en/ - extremly cheap, many different offers, good quality, good option if price is very important

https://www.hosteurope.de/en/Server/ - The "Root Servers" they sell are actually VMs. High price but good quality

https://www.strato-hosting.co.uk/server/dedicated/ - Belongs to Deutsche Telekom, big company, I never used their dedicated servers (the VMs are crap though)

http://www.server4you.com/dedicated-server/ - cheap, big company, quality is ok. Other brands are Serverloft, Plusserver, unmetered.com

https://www.1and1.com/server-dedicated-tariff - big company, good network, not that cheap

http://www.euserv.com/en/dedicated-server/index.php - many different offers, good support, good value

https://english.keyweb.de/products/server/dedicated-server/ - never used the dedicated servers, VMs are crap

https://www.ip-projects.de/produkte/premium-rootserver/ - no personal experience

https://contabo.de/?show=server - Small company, good offers, good support

https://www.manitu.de/root-server/ - Small company, very good support

http://www.seflow.net/dedicati/ - ITALY, small company, very cheap, good

https://www.online.net/en/dedicated-server - FRANCE, very big company, very cheap, good network

https://www.digicube.fr/index/comparatif - FRANCE, extremly cheap, network not that good

http://www.kimsufi.com/us/en/ - FRANCE and CANADA, very cheap, good quality, very good dDOS protection. Other brand of OVH is SoyouStart

https://www.leaseweb.com/bare-metal-server/all-servers - NETHERLANDS, very big company, very professional, kind of expensive, DCs in different countries

Re: Ask HN: Best value/price dedicated servers in US and Europe?

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Post by rcorin » Tue, Jan 06, 2015, 8:19 PM UTC

freerk wrote: post #12

Cheap root server providers, mostly in Germany if nothing mentioned otherwise, all with own infrastructure (no resellers) and my personal experience. Note that prices mentioned in Germany are almost all the time incl. VAT, so you might be able so save 19% on those prices. https://www.hetzner.de/us/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver - Hands down my favorite. Very powerful hardware for the price, very professional, good…

thanks! any recommendations for US?

Re: Ask HN: Best value/price dedicated servers in US and Europe?

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Post by rcorin » Tue, Jan 06, 2015, 8:19 PM UTC

freerk wrote: post #12

Cheap root server providers, mostly in Germany if nothing mentioned otherwise, all with own infrastructure (no resellers) and my personal experience. Note that prices mentioned in Germany are almost all the time incl. VAT, so you might be able so save 19% on those prices. https://www.hetzner.de/us/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver - Hands down my favorite. Very powerful hardware for the price, very professional, good…

thanks! any recommendations for US?

Re: Ask HN: Best value/price dedicated servers in US and Europe?

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Post by rcorin » Tue, Jan 06, 2015, 8:19 PM UTC

freerk wrote: post #12

Cheap root server providers, mostly in Germany if nothing mentioned otherwise, all with own infrastructure (no resellers) and my personal experience. Note that prices mentioned in Germany are almost all the time incl. VAT, so you might be able so save 19% on those prices. https://www.hetzner.de/us/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver - Hands down my favorite. Very powerful hardware for the price, very professional, good…

thanks! any recommendations for US?

Re: Ask HN: Best value/price dedicated servers in US and Europe?

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Post by rcorin » Tue, Jan 06, 2015, 8:19 PM UTC

freerk wrote: post #12

Cheap root server providers, mostly in Germany if nothing mentioned otherwise, all with own infrastructure (no resellers) and my personal experience. Note that prices mentioned in Germany are almost all the time incl. VAT, so you might be able so save 19% on those prices. https://www.hetzner.de/us/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver - Hands down my favorite. Very powerful hardware for the price, very professional, good…

thanks! any recommendations for US?

Re: Ask HN: Best value/price dedicated servers in US and Europe?

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Post by gesman » Tue, Jan 06, 2015, 8:23 PM UTC

freerk wrote: post #12

Cheap root server providers, mostly in Germany if nothing mentioned otherwise, all with own infrastructure (no resellers) and my personal experience. Note that prices mentioned in Germany are almost all the time incl. VAT, so you might be able so save 19% on those prices. https://www.hetzner.de/us/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver - Hands down my favorite. Very powerful hardware for the price, very professional, good…

Note that scammers and spammers are well aware of the cheapest dedicated server providers and love to use them for hit and run attacks. That often results in subnet ban for the whole provider's datacenter. Although if you're only after backend hardware resources and not care about SEO, email deliverability and such - then this list is good.

Otherwise be aware.

Re: Ask HN: Best value/price dedicated servers in US and Europe?

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Post by rcorin » Tue, Jan 06, 2015, 8:25 PM UTC

freerk wrote: post #12

Cheap root server providers, mostly in Germany if nothing mentioned otherwise, all with own infrastructure (no resellers) and my personal experience. Note that prices mentioned in Germany are almost all the time incl. VAT, so you might be able so save 19% on those prices. https://www.hetzner.de/us/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver - Hands down my favorite. Very powerful hardware for the price, very professional, good…

thanks! any US recommendations?

Re: Ask HN: Best value/price dedicated servers in US and Europe?

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Post by hackerboos » Tue, Jan 06, 2015, 8:55 PM UTC

rcorin wrote: post #10

hackerboos wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd avoid Hetzner. A competitor/malicious user can take down your site by DDoS'ing it for a short time.

And this is not true of the others? I've not seen guarantees against that in any of the other vendors...

Hetzner have a policy of null rooting IP and not responding to reinstatement requests resulting in significant downtime.

OVH are similarly priced yet have good DDoS protection for free.

Re: Ask HN: Best value/price dedicated servers in US and Europe?

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Post by acelik » Fri, Jan 09, 2015, 9:13 AM UTC

msantos wrote: post #5

Europe: http://www.hetzner.de/uk/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver and http://www.1and1.co.uk

Hetzner has a response time of at least 24 hours where you'd have a lot shorter times in companies like Digital Ocean. We use Hetzner, DO and Azure. Looks like they are all similar in terms of uptime. Yet, if you have problem with your server then Hetzner usually takes longer time to recover.