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Re: Hetzner Cloud

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Post by alcover »

dx034 wrote: post #132
logronoide wrote: post #118

Hetzner has an excellent reputation for rock-solid engineering and very good prices. While the cloud providers invested in innovation in software, they focused on optimizing the hardware and data center techniques and engineering (something very German, btw). Now that Cloud is a pure commodity and companies are learning about how to be truly 'multi-cloud' they come out of nowhere with a very interesting proposal at i…

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

Used OVH for many years.

Their interface is a mess and has been for a long time.

They are making a silly mistake with such neglect.

For cheap VPS ok but when I go serious I'll look elsewhere with clean interface.

Re: Hetzner Cloud

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Post by detaro »

akoncius wrote: post #198
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…

in my previous gig we used hetzner server to have several VMs and storage of that server failed , resulting that all our production servers went down. luckily we had backups, and restored partially our production, but after that incident we moved everything to DigitalOcean, just to not risk anymore. so our experience was bitter with Hetzner.

Why not go with Hetzner VPSes if you didn't want to deal with dedicated HW anymore? Or are you blaming Hetzner for a hardware failure?

Re: Hetzner Cloud

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Post by jlgaddis »

romanovcode wrote: post #239
Elrac wrote: post #220

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 (Deb…

The reason I ask is that I have some specific Windows software and I would like to upload Windows ISO with VirtIO drivers and use my own cd-key instead of paying additional 16 EUR per month for a license that I already have.

Per their FAQ, you can do that.

Re: Hetzner Cloud

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Post by kuschku »

mark_l_watson wrote: post #169
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.

A fair warning to you: IMMEDIATELY TURN OFF UPDATES FOR THE NVIDIA DRIVER

Since a few weeks ago, Nvidia changes their driver ToS, and any new versions of the driver are not permitted to be used in datacenters (except for crypto mining).

See more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15983587

Re: Hetzner Cloud

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Post by Hetzner_OL »

AFNobody wrote: post #252
rubenbe wrote: post #177

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Thanks for the feedback about possible confusion caused by language issues. As the company's in-house English teacher, I am always curious to hear how we're doing in that regard. If you happen to have any old support ticket numbers where English was an issue, I'd appreciate looking at them so that I can integrate them into one of my classes. --Katie, Marketing (and English teacher), Hetzner Online

Re: Hetzner Cloud

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Post by kuschku »

bobince wrote: post #173
kuschku wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Considering you said you also block Amazon, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15494970 , I don’t think your opinion will have much weight on this topic.

I don't aspire to weight, but I don't really know what you're getting at here - amazonses is commonly blocked as its abuse reporting is a brick wall, much worse than Hetzner who are at least trying, if ineffectively. (Not talking about all of Amazon, just SES - AWS for example is a different animal.)

Considering how many legitimate services are on SES, if you block SES you might as well go with a whitelist for email.

That’s what I’m trying to get at here.

Re: Hetzner Cloud

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Post by e12e »

simplyinfinity wrote: post #190
dx034 wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Why do you need a load balancer if you don't have enough traffic to justify a beefier dedicated box with a few tb data included and a proper gb uplink? Are you streaming game/3d data or something where each request is really compute heavy, but data is less than 100mbs?

[ed: never mind - 20tb included for the cheapest box. That's a bit of a departure from earlier. That's 60 mbps sustained 24/7 for a month. That's probably hard to meet with a full regular web stack running on a single tiny vm..

Oth, should be able to just ha proxy on one of those - or two-three w heartbeat...]

Re: Hetzner Cloud

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Post by max-m »

gradschool wrote: post #268

Does anyone know off hand whether whether it's possible to install nixos on Hetzner cloud servers, either manually or using nixops?

The cloud servers can be booted into a rescue system.

https://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/Hetzner_Rescue-System/en

From there you can do pretty much what you desire.

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