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Re: Hetzner Cloud

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Post by jo909 »

zython wrote: post #4

Whats the difference to their VPS's ? I had one until last month with pretty much the specs of the cx21 but it cost a little bit more ? Are they just lowering their prices or am I missing out on features ?

The VPS's were never billed hourly, so you wouldn't have used them in a cloudy, disposable, dynamically scalable way.

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Post by Maakuth »

realPubkey wrote: post #2

Is the location of the cloud-server still Nürnberg/Falkenstein? The prices seem to be very low.

They are also in process of building out in Finland (https://www.cinia.fi/en/archive/hetzner-data-center-park-hel...). There's a direct GER-FIN fiber link laid in the Baltic, owned partially by Hetzner (https://www.cinia.fi/en/services/international-connectivity-...).

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Post by chillidoor »

_urga wrote: post #8

I would prefer Hetzner to concentrate on dedicated machines and expand datacenter locations (Asia, Canada).

Yeah, I'd like them to be a better dedicated server competitor to OVH as competition is normally good for the consumer. But I guess there's more demand for cloud computing these days.

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Post by raimue »

zython wrote: post #4

Whats the difference to their VPS's ? I had one until last month with pretty much the specs of the cx21 but it cost a little bit more ? Are they just lowering their prices or am I missing out on features ?

As for all cloud providers, you are billed by an hourly rate instead of committing to pay a fixed price for the full month. This gives the customer the flexibility to scale the required power dynamically.

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Post by Svenstaro »

baybal2 wrote: post #7

Hetzner used to be a rather big conventional hoster. I'm surprised to see them up and running these days when all big co seemed to have migrated to that cloud thingy

Well, they cost very little in comparison to the big cloud hosters and have great performance. Most startups nowadays can be hosted on a single big vertical machine just fine with perhaps another machine for a hot spare.

I think the much-heralded cloud elasticity for most startups only serves to please investors "we can scale if we blow up over night!".

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Post by chillidoor »

baybal2 wrote: post #7

Hetzner used to be a rather big conventional hoster. I'm surprised to see them up and running these days when all big co seemed to have migrated to that cloud thingy

There is still a demand for dedicated servers, although it is becoming more and more niche, I think.

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Post by eb0la »

etaty wrote: post #3
realPubkey wrote: post #2

Is the location of the cloud-server still Nürnberg/Falkenstein? The prices seem to be very low.

yes, it is. German laws for data protection apply.

Not German, but European Laws apply.

This ( http://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/oj ) replaces all data proyection laws in the EU.

Must comply now, but sanctions won't be in effect until may 25th.

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Post by manmal »

baybal2 wrote: post #7

Hetzner used to be a rather big conventional hoster. I'm surprised to see them up and running these days when all big co seemed to have migrated to that cloud thingy

It's not a conventional hoster in the sense of hosting WAMP/LAMP/MAMP, but enterprises (mainly from Europe) used their dedicated servers a lot for their stuff.
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