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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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Post by FpUser »

heipei wrote: post #2

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.

This is for sure. I currently rent dedicated from for my client OVH because of strict data location requirement. Exactly the same dedicated on Hetzner is 2.5 or so times cheaper. Either beats the crap out of AWS price wise. Unfortunately we are in Canada and what are the chances of Hetzner to come here ;(

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

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Post by chocolatkey »

Very happy about this as a long-time Hetzner dedicated and cloud customer. The only "issue" I've had with cloud is the lack of video memory due to the virtualized environment they run in, but that's a special case because I'm running a custom Windows server install due to Adobe products, which is not officially supported. I await the day they add object storage to the mix, then my (hosting) life will be complete.

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

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Post by Hetzner_OL »

ducktective wrote: post #8
andyp-kw wrote: post #4

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.

We are, indeed, very careful about new customers and limits, but we do this not to be mean, but to prevent abuse. Preventing abuse also means improving the overall performance for all of our customers. So by being careful about limits, we are also trying to make your experience -- in the end -- a much more positive one. --Katie, Hetzner

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Post by konha »

andyp-kw wrote: post #4

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

Their cloud offering isn’t as polished yet. No managed databases for example. Other than that they’ve got a long track record and a good reputation for providing competitively priced servers.

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

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Post by Hetzner_OL »

sgjohnson wrote: post #3

It would be great if they’d support BGP. I love their pricing. I’d love it even more if I could announce my IPs on their dedicated offerings.

Thanks for the feedback on both of these points. I will make sure to share these suggestions with the team! :) -Katie

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

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Post by Hetzner_OL »

chocolatkey wrote: post #12

Very happy about this as a long-time Hetzner dedicated and cloud customer. The only "issue" I've had with cloud is the lack of video memory due to the virtualized environment they run in, but that's a special case because I'm running a custom Windows server install due to Adobe products, which is not officially supported. I await the day they add object storage to the mix, then my (hosting) life will be complete.

Object storage is, indeed, very high up on the list of hoped-for items on our customer wish list for cloud products. I can add a +1 to that for you and send it onto the dev team. As always, we don't announce roadmaps of upcoming features and when they will be ready. We prefer to announce things when they go live -- just like today! --Katie
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