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Re: Hetzner Cloud

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Post by simosx »

Compared to Scaleway, Scaleway gives you two vCPUs (not one) and 50GB storage (not 20GB) for their entry level cloud server, at around 3€/month.

URL: https://www.scaleway.com/pricing/

The problem with Scaleway is that they are working at capacity and are almost always out of stock.

They are expanding now (and are hiring!), https://blog.online.net/2017/11/13/scaleway-enters-a-new-gro...

The big difference between Hetzner and all the rest of the cloud servers, is that they start with 2GB RAM for their entry level packages.

Re: Hetzner Cloud

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Post by AFNobody »

rubenbe wrote: post #177
dx034 wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And without the OVH cloud interface which has horrible loading times and sometimes randomly switches to French.

When contacting OVH support in French, I generally receive very good support. I sometimes wonder how good the response is when they receive the same question in English.

Its hit or miss, from experience, in English.

I use them heavily for their cheap object storage + backups.

But even for cheap, dumb storage situations they sometimes give "interesting" responses to support questions.

To be fair, I contact them maybe 3 to 4 times a year (always related to hardware / network down issues). So, my experience may not be representative.

Re: Hetzner Cloud

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Post by misev »

hmage wrote: post #193
maufl wrote: post #192

Why do I see a higher price in the web console than on the product page?

Because product page doesn't include VAT. But once you login the VAT is applied on the prices.

Oh, I was wondering why the prices on https://www.hetzner.com/cloud?country=de are higher than on https://www.hetzner.com/cloud?country=us, this explains it.

Re: Hetzner Cloud

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Post by Hetzner_OL »

simosx wrote: post #231

When you create a new cloud server, there is a tab called CEPH (for the Ceph network filesystem). It does not have any options and it looks like it is not active yet. It would be great if they offered network storage through Ceph.

This is another product type runnning on SSD-backed Ceph storage instead of NVME SSDs. Thank you for pointing out this hiccup in our user interface. I've passed that information on to my team members. --Katie, Marketing, Hetzner Online

Re: Hetzner Cloud

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Post by moepstar »

pulse7 wrote: post #65
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…

If they open a DC in the US, then - by the US laws - their US company will have to provide the data even from German DCs when requested by the US government. So it is maybe better not to enter the US...

Somewhere on their forum (not sure if this has been made public somewhere) they said they're looking to open a datacenter in Finland...

Not sure if that helps with your latency problem or not, but options.... :)

Re: Hetzner Cloud

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Post by Dolores12 »

simplyinfinity wrote: post #123
myf01d wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Because of stolen credit cards? They are minimising potential damages like this. Malicious actors are less likely to give their ID to send spam and ID cards are harder to steal than Credit cards :)

Be assured malicious actors got plenty of stolen ids.

Re: Hetzner Cloud

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Post by vidarh »

zzzcpan wrote: post #250
vidarh wrote: post #245

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They require ID the first time . It's inconvenient, but given the price difference vs. DO, it's very much worth it.

I think it's more complicated than that. I was able to create an account and start a server without an ID whatsoever.

It may very well be the restrictions depend on products and location etc., but the point is anyway is that even when they ask for ID, it's always been for the initial order only.

Re: Hetzner Cloud

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Post by vidarh »

oliwarner wrote: post #167

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 thoug…

I'm in the UK and host things both in a colo facility about 2 miles from me in London, and at Hetzner, and the roundtrip difference is not noticeable for normal workloads unless you're doing something extremely latency sensitive.
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