Cool - renting two CX31 instances plus a BX40 storage box seems to me a good solution running a private OpenShift cluster for under 50€ a month. Id need to figure it out!
Hetzner Cloud
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#213Is 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.
I'm a (happy) Hetzner customer. A few years ago I ran some services with easily guessable/forceable passwords and my host turned into a node of a cracking botnet for a day or two.
Hetzner got nasty mails from a couple of "victim" sites, forwarded them to me, helped me clean house and everything was fixed and airtight within hours.
I think it's to be expected that a few self-managed root hosts will be poorly managed (like mine was) or abused. But as far as I can tell, Hetzner does a credible job of taking care of problems.
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#214Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Isn't 500 servers still colocation range? That's only 30-40 racks, hardly a whole DC? Or are scale effects that low that DCs of that size make sense?
Depends on colo costs. In quite few places, a budget dc (no uninterrupted power, hvac, and less flexible switching setup) makes sense
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#215Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
FWIW: I block Hetzner. They have an automated abuse-handling system that sends your complaint to the spammer and asks them politely to stop. This often works for small-time operation on a single IP address, and for compromised servers, but it's completely inadequate for dealing with large customers and rogue resellers spamming over large netblocks, and against darker-coloured-hat spammers engaging in reprisals. Reply…
Beating spam by playing whack-a-mole is a dead end, that ship sailed long, long ago.
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#216Tried it out. You can't sign in with your email address, you have to use a user name they assign to you. My assigned user name is more secure than my password and impossible to remember. I suppose it's good for security, but it's also super inconvenient.
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#217Wonder 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.
couldn't you in reality just use the data from WHOIS protection on a domain?
I don't think so. German laws is very particular about what should be in there.
Typical example: https://www.rockit-internet.de/impressum/
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#218Tried it out. You can't sign in with your email address, you have to use a user name they assign to you. My assigned user name is more secure than my password and impossible to remember. I suppose it's good for security, but it's also super inconvenient.
Password manager sounds like something you could employ for this?
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#219This looks enticing. I may wish to become a Hetzner customer again.
That I am presently not one is entirely Hetzner's own doing: Some years ago, testing out their offerings (which were good!), at one point I deleted my last VPS, thinking I'd come back in a few days and actually start getting serious.
Not to be! Virtually the very second I deleted the instance, an email pinged in: No active machine, account deleted. Which sent me over the border to the French guys (Whose interface to this day is a riddle to me, every time I haven't worked with i for a week or two. I can read the French version, it's not a language thing, just a general UI disaster).
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#220Can you upload ISO files?
Once you have your own server, you can of course upload whatever you want. But you're probably asking about booting from an ISO image. As a few other people have said, Hetzner offers a "boot from rescue image" service which apparently lets you boot from an uploaded ISO. I never tried this on my own Hetzner server though.
If you're hardcore, you can also do what a friend of mine did: Use the provided Linux system (Debian, Ubuntu, there's a bunch of choices) to fiddle its own boot loader, possibly re-partition the disk, upload your favorite system and reboot into that. You're root, you can do what the hell you want; at worst you might end up bricking your system to the point where you need to re-install from the rescue system.