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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 rmoriz »

hardwaresofton wrote: post #149
dtx1 wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hetzner S3 Storage would be great. I know Hetzner is slow moving when it comes to Software but it's so obvious that they would have explosive growth if they did that and most of it is available as FOSS Software already

So I'm working on adding this on top of Hetzner -- it's service #2 and the beta should be out by the end of the month (Redis is first!) -- if you'd be willing to beta test I'd love to have you try it. You can find the link in my profile or here[0] [0]: https://nimbusws.com

IMHO this has to be offered by the platform, not by some other party/intermediary. Of course I could run minio, swift, etc by myself, but this is not the point.

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

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Post by Hetzner_OL »

cryptolake wrote: post #110
bicijay wrote: post #97

Lovely, but as a customer from Brazil i they never accepted me on their verification step. I even sent a picture from my passport, did the whole face scan verification but nothing. Gave some pretty sensitive information, got a rejection in return lol.

same for tunisia

Again, I am sorry that we could not accept your accounts. Every day, we also reject a large number of accounts from German and European users if there are red flags. (And unfortunately, there are some real situations that are logical that can lead still to false red flags.) For example, I have an unusual last name, especially for here in Germany, and when I have done personal shopping, I have had a number of online e-shops reject my new accounts because that looked suspicious or because they didn't think an address I wanted to send something to was real. So I understand that your frustration is real, and I am sorry for it. --Katie

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

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Post by hardwaresofton »

rmoriz wrote: post #161
hardwaresofton wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So I'm working on adding this on top of Hetzner -- it's service #2 and the beta should be out by the end of the month (Redis is first!) -- if you'd be willing to beta test I'd love to have you try it. You can find the link in my profile or here[0] [0]: https://nimbusws.com

IMHO this has to be offered by the platform, not by some other party/intermediary. Of course I could run minio, swift, etc by myself, but this is not the point.

Thanks for sharing this, hopefully after the expansion finishes (and maybe some dedicated servers appear in the US), Hetzner could offer object storage natively!

I have seen the "apps" in image selection in the Hetzner cloud console, so I'm convinced they're at least thinking about going up the value chain.

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

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Post by PaywallBuster »

hardwaresofton wrote: post #157
simplotek wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Please do a managed Kubernetes next. If we're taking requests, I would love a Fargate-like service. It would be absolutely fantastic if Hetzner provided a service where users uploaded a Docker image, and Hetzner took care of handling the networking bits and running it, and gather metrics.

Something like this is on my roadmap, would you mind telling me a bit about the metrics and the scale you'd expect? Would you expect always on or more of an ephemeral container?

AWS Fargate / GCP Cloud run

Upload a docker image, specify container size (1cpu 2gb)

go live

scale from 1rps to 1000 rps any time

stateless

pay per request or pay per container

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

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Post by jhoelzel »

tobias_irmer wrote: post #94
jhoelzel wrote: post #18

Go get them tiger. I want multi node, multi AZ hetzner k8s clusters ;)

Take a look at kubeone. We are fairly happy running production loads on K8s distributed across Hetzner DCs...

thank you! i do the same with ansible and or init scripts. but its not the same as a solution that is integrated with the hosting provider.

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

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Post by nicexe »

luckylion wrote: post #123

I really like Hetzner (very inexpensive and generally good quality), but their TOS are difficult and their DMCA is just broken. The TOS are vague. You're not allowed to "violate the rights of third parties", but they don't have a clear policy on what is a violation. If you review a product and the company files a DMCA, they may or may not say that naming a brand is a violation (I've experienced them coming down on bo…

Their ToS states that cryptocurrency mining is forbidden (which is fair). But, comments from hetzner officials on social media clarify that Ethereum nodes (even if they don't produce any blocks) are also against their ToS.

This is like mentioning in your rule-book that metal toothpicks are forbidden because I don't know, people can short your batteries or whatever. But also banning wooden toothpicks without mentioning this in your rule-book.

Their ToS are not always vague but the way their terms are executed is definitely arbitrary.

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

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Post by ehou »

andix wrote: post #131

I love Hetzner Cloud, it’s similar to Digital Ocean, but the performance is much better. Funnily it’s cheaper too. There are just two things I’m missing: - snapshots for volumes!!! - restricting the dns api token (I don’t want to give one acme solver full access to 20+ domains)

+1 for more restrictions on DNS API tokens. Ways to mitigate the riscs:

    - Separate account per domain .. which is a lot of work, see acceptation process in other comments

    - Use a NS record for _acme-challenge.domain.tld when having the DNS hosted elsewhere and point this to the Hetzner DNS servers

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

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Post by openplatypus »

ptman wrote: post #155
mythz wrote: post #48

We're a long time Hetzner dedicated server customer currently transitioning from their dedicated servers in Germany to their US Cloud product (for reduced latency) which we can highly recommend as it was the best US Cloud provider we've found that works out to be an order of magnitude less expensive than equivalent specs on Azure/AWS and also includes 20TB free bandwidth that would cost a fortune in AWS/Azure's artif…

I wonder when Aiven https://aiven.io/ (or something similar) will start supporting hetzner.

A few months ago I heard that Aiven was warming up to collaboration with OVH, which is even better IMO.

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

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Post by bluedino »

RicoElectrico wrote: post #50
holoduke wrote: post #23

I am running a cluster of machines at Hetzner for years. Generally i am satisfied, but i like to share some bad experiences which took a month to fix. At some point some of my servers were facing random cpu stalls mostly at occuring midnight. I spend hours and nights to find out the cause. But i wasnt able to find it. Tracing the issue resulting in different causes everytime. After I contacted the Hetzner support tea…

> I contacted support again and received an arrogant email that the issue is related to my software and that they couldnt help me further. Doesn't surprise me, German companies always know better and will try to prove you wrong, whether you're their customer or supplier. Such is the business culture, I think.

Better than support tickets to a country that will ignore you or deny anything is wrong.

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

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Post by openplatypus »

yread wrote: post #90
PaywallBuster wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Quite impressive the numbers they're doing 78M profit on 290M revenue (See [0] above) _ edited figures _

It's insane that they are so cheap and they could still have a third lower prices and not lose money somehow

Makes you wonder how much you are overpaying on AWS.
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