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Re: Hetzner Cloud

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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

They're so much cheaper than the big cloud providers that I've made quite a lot of money migrating clients off AWS and Google Cloud to Hetzner when they start getting big invoices and want to cut costs.

Re: Hetzner Cloud

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post #130
post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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-... ).

Makes Finland sense if you want to connect to Asian customers? Is there a good link Finland-JP/Korea/Singapore? Otherwise I fail to see why Finland makes sense, unless you need cheaper energy for applications that don't need low latency.

Cheaper to keep cool.

Re: Hetzner Cloud

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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.

Companies with actually performance constrained software without a doubt. There are not so few of them.

There is a big pit in between own DC, and a lot of VM's in terms of economic scalability.

Own DC pays pack when you have 500+ to 1000+ machines in a single location.

Re: Hetzner Cloud

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Anyone know why this was upvoted? I can't tell it apart from the dozens of other "good" cloud providers (Lightsail, Digital Ocean, Vultr, Linode)

We (I) just like Hetzner a lot, they have cheap and reliable (from the little I've used them) bare metal servers.

Re: Hetzner Cloud

#188

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.

Odd thing to note here. I've never heard of a case in Germany where the hoster would enforce this law on behalf of the state.

There are plenty of lawyers who love to make money out of unlawful use of the German "Impressum" and send you an "Abmahnung" which requires you to pay fees even if you comply and change your website afterwards.

Re: Hetzner Cloud

#189

Is Hetzner not known to generally be a "bad" host? I have suffered so much abuse at the hands of their clients (DOS attacks, aggressive spidering/SQL Injection probing) that I've blocked their entire IP space on the majority of my client networks. I've never received a single response from their abuse report email/tool.

Well one experience doesn't necessarily mean anything (on either side) but I'm absolutely surprised that that was your experience since everything we found was nothing but an amazing product that was not proportional to the price we paid in the good sense.

Re: Hetzner Cloud

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post #125

What i would love to see offered by hetzner is loadbalancers :)

Shouldn't be too hard to set up yourself. As their traffic is so cheap, external vs. internal traffic doesn't really matter.

I need a newtwork load balancer so i don't have to spend 25 eur for additional server to act as a loadbalancer in simpler and budget restricted scenarios.
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