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Re: Hetzner Cloud

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Post by nirv »

romanovcode wrote: post #140
z3t4 wrote: post #51

I hope they grab enough market share to force other providers to lower their prices, Hetzner is like 10x cheaper and on better network and hardware then their competitors.

scaleway seems even lower and is pretty popular.

I'm Scaleway customer and it's for sure cheaper since it offers dual cores, unmetered bandwidth and more SSD storage for the same 3 EUR/m. But these are ARM or Atom x86 CPUs, both are significantly less efficient[1] than Xeons. It's worth noting that Scaleway has introduced "Workload Intensive" instances with a sweet price point starting from 25 EUR/m for 6-cores Xeon D-1531/15GB RAM/200GB SSD.

[1] https://github.com/joedicastro/vps-comparison

Re: Hetzner Cloud

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Post by [deleted] »

kuschku wrote: post #134
hit8run wrote: post #29

Can 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

I’ve been maintaining the price comparison at git.io/vps for a while now, and the answer is: No, you’re missing nothing. Yes, DO and especially AWS and GCP are about an order of magnitude more expensive than Hetzner, OVH, and similar providers. Much more for traffic. It’s always been like this, the cloud providers simply have much larger profit margins.

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Re: Hetzner Cloud

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Post by mtmail »

clan wrote: post #86
hs86 wrote: post #21

I 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?

Yes, I created a cloud server and see the rescue system is available. Once you created a server you can also mount ISO images. I see "FreeBSD 11.1" among others listed there.

Re: Hetzner Cloud

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Post by albertgoeswoof »

Tepix wrote: post #150
dx034 wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OVH tries to do that but I doubt that's waterproof. Probably easier to have an agreement with a US provider. Having everything in the EU makes it much easier for them and is a selling point for many customers.

A US company can't force a German company to hand out data, I don't see what you mean by "waterproof".

The US government might not agree that they are two separate entities (they're not), and could take action based on that position (e.g. shut down the US company, ask the German government to compel the German company to comply with their laws etc.)

Re: Hetzner Cloud

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Post by Tepix »

zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC wrote: post #149

No clue about this new product, but their previous virtual server offering had NATed IPv4 and they generally have an idiotic IPv6 policy (only small prefixes, you have to pay extra to get anything remotely sensible--like, default /64 even on dedicated servers, you can get a /56 if you pay for it, more isn't supported).

Could you explain why a /64 is too small for you? I'm really curious.

Re: Hetzner Cloud

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Post by oliwarner »

That's really cheap. With really good features.

However, what keeps me on Linode is that they have a London datacentre with excellent peering. I've seen 9ms pings, 150 miles away. Makes for seriously fast websites (in concert with good development processes).

Hetzner responds in 31-35ms from here. That might be Good Enough™ for many applications but it's not as special.

I've never been this tempted to jump ship though. Hopefully some of these features will become industry standard.

Re: Hetzner Cloud

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Post by mark_l_watson »

mythz wrote: post #58

Been using Hetzner for years, their hardware's has been rock solid, predictable pricing with sweet price/performance ratio resulting in large savings from consolidating existing AWS EC2 instances. Still using AWS for Apps which rely on cloud features, e.g. SES/RDS/etc but for static servers Hetzner is now our goto. Super exciting to see them entering the cloud space and offering easy snapshots + backups, should open…

I don’t mind the latency. I rent a a large GPU server from them for my own machine learning experiments. Their prices are so reasonably inexpensive that this is affordable. I think it would be more expensive for them to provide the same service in the USA - I base this in pricing. OVH is the only local provider I have used that is somewhat price competitive.

Re: Hetzner Cloud

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Post by anc84 »

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.

Probably German laws.
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