Wonder if using Hetzner makes you subject to unusual German laws requiring (nearly) every site to have an "Impressum" page with contact phone number, mailing address and other data that would be uncomfortable for an individual (not a company) to disclose.
Hetzner Cloud
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#82Quite impressed so far, the interface clean and straight forward. We've been using Hetzner for years, mostly because the PX121 machines offer excellent performance for cheap. We'll be doing some in depth testing of this new cloud offering in the coming days/weeks. Provisioning is already impressively fast, especially if you're coming from EC2 where it feels like an intern has to press a button or something to get an…
Maybe we just have more interns than amazon ;)
full disclosure: am working for hetzner cloud
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#83I would really like to try Hetzner since it's a respectable company and offers much lower prices than DO or Linode, however, they need an ID verification. Since I am egyptian and have no passport, I cannot register. I hope they find a more resilient way for registration.
Why don't you get a passport, government ID, or driver's license? I'm honestly interested, if that's not too personal to ask.
I showed them my government ID but they refused, understandably because it's in Arabic language. They asked for an English passport. But since I didn't have one, I couldn't continue the registration. It's really frustrating. Why isn't my credit card enough to verify my identity? Almost all top cloud/vps providers don't ask such questions.
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#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have multiple Barebone servers with Hetzner, never had any problems. The only thing I don't like is their control panel. Edit: Their Cloudhosting control panel is top notch.
Hi! :) The whole architecture has been redeveloped from scratch. We have also designed and developed an entirely new control panel called the Hetzner Cloud Console. It is and will be actively worked on to make it as easy to use as possible for our users. Feedback is highly appreciated :) Also the new cloud servers are billed hourly instead of monthly, as the old VPS were. Full disclosure: I work for Hetzner Cloud as…
You guys did a great job, the new control panel looks clean and is super fast!
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#85Can anyone compare their service to Linode or DigitalOcean? I'm currently using Linode but the Hetzner prices seem way lower: For 35€ a month I get 32GB RAM, 8 vCPUs, 240GB SSD + 20TB Traffic. The comparable 40$ plan for Linode offers 8GB RAM 4 CPU Cores 48GB SSD and 3 TB Transfer (See: https://www.linode.com/pricing ) Am I missing something or is Hetzner just way more competetive? https://www.linode.com/pricing
Hetzner is easily 30% off OVH and half the price of other hosting providers (VPS and bare metal). So nothing surprising here. They have a cheap cost base (data centres in rural areas and wholesale electricity prices aren't that high in Germany) which probably explains most of that. OVH had basically the same price but their heavy investments in new DCs have made them more expensive. Since Hetzner doesn't invest a lot…
Worth mentioning SoYouStart, OVH's low-end brand. I believe the way it works is that OVH is current-gen hardware, and SoYouStart is the hand-me-downs (which I think is a great model)
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#86I am using their previous "VServer" offering and while it is not easily visible on their landing page it is possible to reboot their VPS into either a Linux based or a FreeBSD rescue image and install your favourite Linux distro or FreeBSD from there. This way you can run for example a FreeBSD or Arch Linux VPS for under 3 Euro per month. :)
I am running FreeBSD on their VServer (and dedicated) too.
Anyone know if the rescue system is available on the cloud offering as well? (So alternate OS can be installed)
And do the "cloud" have the same painful setup with the gateway outside the subnet?
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#87I would really like to try Hetzner since it's a respectable company and offers much lower prices than DO or Linode, however, they need an ID verification. Since I am egyptian and have no passport, I cannot register. I hope they find a more resilient way for registration.
That got me curious, are you saying you don't have a passport because you're Egyptian, or was that just an additional piece of information separate from the passport? (Don't know if I'm missing some international news/info here.) Also, maybe it would be worth contacting their support about your situation, maybe some other form of identification can be used.
I just never needed a passport, so I don't have one so far.
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#88Do you support any other PaaS-API (E.G. CF) instead of your own hcloud cli?
You can find their new API documentation here:
https://docs.hetzner.cloud/
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From my experience this is false. Hetzner reacts to abuse notices and I never received a server with blacklisted IP addresses. The only organization that caused issues is Microsoft / Outlook.com, but they seem to block every IP address by default. I was able to unblock myself by filling out a form and waiting a few hours for all my servers so far.
They do react to notices, but they don't do much about them. Emailing abuse@hetzner.de yields: Dear Sir or Madam, Thank you for your email. In order for us to process your request, we ask that you please fill out the form at the following link: https://abuse.hetzner.de/ Please use this form for all future complaints. Kind regards Abuse team When told that they already have all the information in the original report,…
Would much rather have them investigate first, so you can't just abuse spam reports to shut down people's servers.
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#90Hetzner 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, actually they made themselves a name for their quality products. And while everybody was busy minimizing their server usage in the advent of cloud computing, Hetzner worked on lowering the prices.
Therefore, they got an international reputation for delivering high quality for a cheap price.
This new offer looks very promising. I like the simple price model of 'pay per hour' + a fair 'maximum price per month'.