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Re: Hetzner Cloud

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Post by chris-ux_hcloud »

MulliMulli wrote: post #84
chris-ux_hcloud wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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!

Thank you so much! :)

Re: Hetzner Cloud

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Post by csmattryder »

mythz wrote: post #45
csmattryder wrote: post #41

Looks like they're taking on LowEndSpirit, except with a slightly better offering. Not quite beastly EC2, or piggybacking a VPS on someone's Nokia 3310. Any current clients know how fast provisioning is on these?

From their website: "Our quick and clever Cloud Console lets you create server instances almost instantly, usually in under 10 seconds."

Duh, I should've read the page when I wasn't as busy... Thanks!

Re: Hetzner Cloud

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Post by jo909 »

dx034 wrote: post #80

Since Hetzner appears to be reading here: I have a question that support couldn't answer last time. How are your DCs connected with each other and with external peering points? I notice that some traceroutes to FSN servers go via NBG. If one data centre region goes down (as OVH just experienced), will all peering still work on the other or would that kill some peering points? Having some kind of network topology (lik…

https://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/Rechenzentren_und_Anbindun...

"How are the Data Centers connected to each other?

The two Data Center Parks are both connected to Frankfurt (FFM) and each other with dark fiber. Thus, a redundant loop is formed, which ensures the availability of a Data Center should one of the connections fail. The n10 Gbit/s connections provide ample bandwidth between the Data Centers.

The bandwidth of the connections between Nuremberg-Frankfurt, Nuremberg-Falkenstein and Falkenstein-Frankfurt are at least 120 Gbit/s. Through the Frankfurt location data is transported to the peering partners at DE-CIX and also to the uplinks Noris, GLBX, Aixit, AMS-IX, Init7 and Level3. At the Nuremberg location there are connections to Noris, KPN, Init7, Level3 and N-IX.

In each Data Center several Juniper EX Core switches, each with 64x 10 Gbit/s ports, are operated and bundle the streams of the Data Center to the n10 Gbit/s backbone and then over the various uplinks. "

And here is a list of their peerings: https://www.hetzner.com/unternehmen/rechenzentrum/

Re: Hetzner Cloud

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Post by Lunatic666 »

TimWolla wrote: post #31
huhtenberg wrote: post #25

Keep in mind that Hetzner has a rather lax (non-existing?) policy when it comes to stopping outbound spam, so make sure to check that IPs you get from them are not on MX blacklists. To clarify - saying this as someone who was forced to blacklist their IPs on more than one occassion, not as someone who ran into tainted IPs as their customer.

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.

Was that a form by Microsoft? Would be great if you could share that, I’ve been looking for something like this forever!

Re: Hetzner Cloud

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Post by ralala »

Congratulations! Nice step.

Are you also working on docker hosting and dbaas?

I'm a german development contractor and long-term Hetzner customer. These are the only two missing features, causing us to still operate our own systems.

Regarding the DSGVO: Do you support encryption of the filesystem?

Re: Hetzner Cloud

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Post by iMarv »

phil42 wrote: post #97

I can‘t seem to find any FreeBSD but just Linux images when trying to create a CloudServer. Is it correct that right now they just have different Linux distros available?

Hi, after creating a server you can boot it with various images provided by hetzner into a rescue system.

disclosure: am part of the frontend team of hetzner cloud

Re: Hetzner Cloud

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Post by foepys »

myf01d wrote: post #83
phihag_ wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

They afaik had some of problems with botnets using their cheap infrastructure in the early to mid 2000s. Might have something to do with it.

Re: Hetzner Cloud

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Post by zerostar07 »

latch wrote: post #85
dx034 wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)

hetzner has a similar 'serverbidding' for older servers which can be quite a bargain, depending on the day https://www.hetzner.com/sb . i know that SYS is good as well
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