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Hetzner continues its growth in the US with a new location

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Re: Hetzner continues its growth in the US with a new location

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The prices seem cheaper than Digital Ocean and AWS Lightsail. What's the catch ?

You can't easily increase the balance of your account! I kid you not, the advocated method of paying is clearing the invoice at the end of the month.

Re: Hetzner continues its growth in the US with a new location

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The prices seem cheaper than Digital Ocean and AWS Lightsail. What's the catch ?

It's slightly more work, in my experience, to set up and administrate a Hetzner VPS, than to do the same with DO or AWS. Slightly. Trivially slightly. I use Hetzner and I have been nothing but happy with their product and service.

Re: Hetzner continues its growth in the US with a new location

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That's great to hear, happy Hetzner customer for many years. Now if they start offering dedicated servers in US locations with equally competitive pricing as for their Germany and Finland DCs then a lot of other players are going to feel the heat.

Thanks for the feedback about our dedicated root servers. It's great to know that we have fans there that would like to also see these products in the States. Installing the infrastructure for our own dedicated root servers in the USA means a much bigger investment in terms of making sure the DC/DC parks are up to our very high standards. For now at least, we are concentrating on gradually adding a few more cloud locations, and then we may test the waters when it comes to other products. But of course, if and when we do that, we'll let you know once it goes live! We hope you have fun today generating a few servers in our new location in Hillsboro, Oregon. :) :) --Katie
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