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Re: Hetzner Cloud

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Post by infinitone »

chrismeller wrote: post #274
contingencies wrote: post #229

I recently tried Google Compute Cloud and concluded it's got almost as awful and crufty an interface as AWS. Almost. What is it with cloud providers, they can't hire a designer? Or they don't take them seriously? This stuff is terrible. So I'm still sold vs. AWS, and I have to run some nodes, and I think great, I can put the business credit card on a cloud account and run stuff. But then Google refuses to let me sign…

If all you’re using is EC2 or GCE (ie: plain VMs) you’re just wasting money anyway. You’d be better served by going with one of the cheaper alternatives that only do VMs, so Hetzner or Digital Ocean or Linode or whatever doesn’t really matter...

Not if you need specialized vms like a p2.

Re: Hetzner Cloud

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Post by snuxoll »

dx034 wrote: post #249
bootcat wrote: post #225

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Does anybody know if Hetzner charges forex on US debit/credit cards ?

They charge in € so you need a card without FX fee.

Discover and Capital One are probably the best cards to use for foreign purchases if you live in the US (I only use my Discover IT or Capital One QuickSilver for purchases in foreign currency or that charge from a foreign bank), some banks offer no-FX fee cards but typically they're tied to specific rewards programs (often travel) that might not be as useful.

Re: Hetzner Cloud

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Post by germanier »

albertgoeswoof wrote: post #165
Tepix wrote: post #150

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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.)

Microsoft has contracted their German Azure region to Deutsche Telekom (which is clearly a separate company) and claims to not be able to access the data. An arrangement similar to this (where basically the brand and technology is used by an actually independent company) could be possible.

Re: Hetzner Cloud

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Post by simplyinfinity »

e12e wrote: post #269
simplyinfinity wrote: post #190

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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 prob…

If one machine goes down (updates, hacked, hardware failure) i still need to have a second one that can handle the incoming requests

Re: Hetzner Cloud

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Post by ksec »

C14L wrote: post #95
pulse7 wrote: post #65

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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...

Good point. Maybe if they opened a DC in Greenland or Iceland.

That is an Interesting questions, so Canada is currently the best for US citizen if you dont want a DC inside US?

Re: Hetzner Cloud

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Post by ysleepy »

phil42 wrote: post #97

I can‘t seem to find any FreeBSD but just Linux images when trying to create a CloudServer. Is it correct that right now they just have different Linux distros available?

I just installed geli ZFS on the 3€ instance. It works nicely.

Re: Hetzner Cloud

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Post by tallanvor »

imhoguy wrote: post #180
myf01d wrote: post #62

I would really like to try Hetzner since it's a respectable company and offers much lower prices than DO or Linode, however, they need an ID verification. Since I am egyptian and have no passport, I cannot register. I hope they find a more resilient way for registration.

AFAIK Hetzner and other major German hosting companies require scan of EU/EEA ID or international passport. Possibly this is required by German law. Just acquire a passport or find local reseller on some "webhostingtalk"-like forum.

My US Driver's License was enough for them as well, but that was almost 4 years ago, so things might have changed.

Re: Hetzner Cloud

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Post by XERQ »

For those of you looking for competitive prices with servers in the U.S., take a look at SSD Nodes—a bootstrapped hosting provider I've been working on since 2011. I'm the founder and CEO, so I'm a little biased, but we're offering 16GB of RAM plus KVM for a price that's more than competitive with Hetzner, and have clients posting excellent benchmarks, like 1.1 GB/s throughput and 480K IOPS[0].

Check out our pricing:

https://www.ssdnodes.com/pricing/

Happy to answer questions if there's any.

[0]: https://serverscope.io/trials/lrAw

Re: Hetzner Cloud

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Post by chrismeller »

infinitone wrote: post #291
chrismeller wrote: post #274

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If all you’re using is EC2 or GCE (ie: plain VMs) you’re just wasting money anyway. You’d be better served by going with one of the cheaper alternatives that only do VMs, so Hetzner or Digital Ocean or Linode or whatever doesn’t really matter...

Not if you need specialized vms like a p2.

Hence “plain VMs”. EC2 does offer other things under the umbrella, but if OP has tried GCE and is considering Hetzner he’s clearly not using those, so he’s wasting money every month.

Re: Hetzner Cloud

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Post by ovao »

kuschku wrote: post #275
ovao wrote: post #271

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The terms of service would (potentially) only apply to Hetzner, not to users of Hetzner's services.

The driver ToS apply to whoever installs the driver. That is you, not Hetzner.

You're right. My thinking on that wasn't quite straight.
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