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Re: Hetzner Cloud

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Post by dx034 »

Maakuth wrote: post #289
dx034 wrote: post #130

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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.

We do have cheap energy (from nuclear and mostly renewable CHP), cheap cooling, availability of educated workforce and stable state. And good network connections to Russia in addition to Nordic and Baltic states and continental Europe.

But latency to Russia and Baltic states isn't that different from where Hetzner already is. I just try to understand why people would choose Hetzner's new DC in Finland over that in Germany unless they offer cheaper prices there.

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Post by pulse7 »

germanier wrote: post #293
albertgoeswoof wrote: post #165

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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.

Unless the US government slightly extends the law to include also the brands...

Re: Hetzner Cloud

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Post by akoncius »

detaro wrote: post #262
akoncius wrote: post #198

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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?

I was just saying that our experience with Hetzner was not as rock solid as others were saying, that's it. Don't understand why some people are downvoting my comment. Also it happened ~6 years ago, so I'm not sure if they offered VPS at all.

Re: Hetzner Cloud

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Post by majewsky »

hs86 wrote: post #21

I am using their previous "VServer" offering and while it is not easily visible on their landing page it is possible to reboot their VPS into either a Linux based or a FreeBSD rescue image and install your favourite Linux distro or FreeBSD from there. This way you can run for example a FreeBSD or Arch Linux VPS for under 3 Euro per month. :)

Can confirm. I'm running Arch Linux on my Hetzner VPS and it's been rock-solid (except that one time when I accidentally deleted /sbin/init, but that was my own stupidity).

Re: Hetzner Cloud

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Post by fs111 »

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.

I just signed up and needed no verification. Does this differ from country to country?

Re: Hetzner Cloud

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Post by georgeappiah »

XERQ wrote: post #298

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:…

Why is your network so slow compared with the rest (from your own performance comparison)?

https://blog.ssdnodes.com/blog/comparison-vultr-vs-digital-o...

Re: Hetzner Cloud

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Post by detaro »

akoncius wrote: post #333
detaro wrote: post #262

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

I was just saying that our experience with Hetzner was not as rock solid as others were saying, that's it. Don't understand why some people are downvoting my comment. Also it happened ~6 years ago, so I'm not sure if they offered VPS at all.

I guess the downvotes are because it sounds like you frame a characteristic of the product type as something the vendor did wrong.

Hardware fails, and part of having a dedicated server is that you are directly on top of said hardware and have to be prepared for it to fail.

Re: Hetzner Cloud

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Post by Hetzner_OL »

eip wrote: post #301
chris-ux_hcloud wrote: post #55

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Hi! :) The whole architecture has been redeveloped from scratch. We have also designed and developed an entirely new control panel called the Hetzner Cloud Console. It is and will be actively worked on to make it as easy to use as possible for our users. Feedback is highly appreciated :) Also the new cloud servers are billed hourly instead of monthly, as the old VPS were. Full disclosure: I work for Hetzner Cloud as…

You dedicated servers page doesn't work anymore: https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver?country=us No matter what filter settings (including default) I see 0 results.

Are you still experiencing issues with this? --Katie, Marketing, Hetzner Online

Re: Hetzner Cloud

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Post by akoncius »

detaro wrote: post #338
akoncius wrote: post #333

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I was just saying that our experience with Hetzner was not as rock solid as others were saying, that's it. Don't understand why some people are downvoting my comment. Also it happened ~6 years ago, so I'm not sure if they offered VPS at all.

I guess the downvotes are because it sounds like you frame a characteristic of the product type as something the vendor did wrong. Hardware fails, and part of having a dedicated server is that you are directly on top of said hardware and have to be prepared for it to fail.

Yeah, but I didn't write "Hetzner sucks because their disks are failing constantly".

One commenter wrote "Hetzner has an excellent reputation for rock-solid engineering" and as a counterpoint I wanted to tell my anecdote which opposes that "rock-solidness". So for that I get downvotes :)

In retrospect yes, I agree that we had to be prepared for such event, to have failovers and so on.

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