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Re: Hetzner launches three new dedicated servers

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I'm considering using Hetzner (or equivalent) for our CI setup with Github Actions custom runners. Right now we're on CircleCI and it costs an arm and a leg. Does anyone have experience to share with that kind of setup? What's the maintenance like?

> or equivalent Do you have any alternatives? I thought Hetzner was fairly unique in their dedicated server offerings (for the price, I mean).

OVH (with their low-end brands such as SoYouStart and Kimsufi) are in the same ballpark.

Re: Hetzner launches three new dedicated servers

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Noob question: if I rent one of these dedicated servers, what happens if some hardware fails? Do I need to contact support or will they detect that automatically? If something needs to be fixed manually (e.g., hard drive, cpu, network), how long does one need to wait for dedicated servers?

I'm used to cloud VMs where if one dies, I can quickly spin up another one effortlessly (I never have to contact support or anything like that).

Re: Hetzner launches three new dedicated servers

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I'm considering using Hetzner (or equivalent) for our CI setup with Github Actions custom runners. Right now we're on CircleCI and it costs an arm and a leg. Does anyone have experience to share with that kind of setup? What's the maintenance like?

I'm using Hetzner for our CI setup with GitLab-runners. With a simple cloud.init script, it's cheap and I have nearly 0 maintenance: https://gitlab.com/21analytics/gitlab-runner-cloud-init

Re: Hetzner launches three new dedicated servers

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it keeps bringing me to a 500 error, and now i'm banned for 60 seconds with "Request on Hold - Suspicous Activity Detected" ...? edit: seems the entire hetzner site is doing this, redirecting me to /_ray/pow which is an error

Same thing, not the best ad for their own Security product :)

Heray is a security product powered by Hetzner

Re: Hetzner launches three new dedicated servers

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- AX52: AMD Ryzen 7 7700 / 64 GB / 2x1 TB NVMe - From 59€ [1] - EX44: Intel Core i5-13500 / 64 GB / 2x512 GB NVMe - From 44€ [2] - EX101: Intel Core i9-13900 / 64 GB / 2x1.92 TB NVMe - From 84€ [3] [1] https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ax52 [2] https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ex44 [3] https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ex101

I really wish I could get dedicated hardware for somewhere close to that price here in Asia. It seems like Hetzner is the only company in the world offering these kind of prices, right? What's the catch?

SoYouStart (which is OVH) have a Singapore region, they also have an "Asia" region, but I don't know where precisely that is located - https://www.soyoustart.com/asia/

We use a mix of SYS and Hetzner here and have found them both to be excellent and very comparable.

Re: Hetzner launches three new dedicated servers

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- AX52: AMD Ryzen 7 7700 / 64 GB / 2x1 TB NVMe - From 59€ [1] - EX44: Intel Core i5-13500 / 64 GB / 2x512 GB NVMe - From 44€ [2] - EX101: Intel Core i9-13900 / 64 GB / 2x1.92 TB NVMe - From 84€ [3] [1] https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ax52 [2] https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ex44 [3] https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ex101

Big Hetzner fan, but the EX101 does not feel like a good value compared to the AX101 that they've had for a while. Yes, the i9-13900 is faster than the 5950X, but does that justify half the RAM and half the disk? - EX101: Intel Core i9-13900 / 64 GB / 2x1.92 TB NVMe - From €84 - AX101: AMD Ryzen™ 9 5950X / 128GB / 2x3.84 TB NVMe - From €101

I rent one AX101 and it has been extremely good value. The thing is so cheap and fast.

However my first one did often reboot randomly and the support wasn’t very helpful. They told me to just rent another one, which I did. The second one rebooted randomly once in about a year. I guess the first one went on auction and still happily reboots.

Hetzner feels like a hard discount cloud provider. I still prefer them over AWS or Azure for non critical workloads that have a little budget.

Re: Hetzner launches three new dedicated servers

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Noob question: if I rent one of these dedicated servers, what happens if some hardware fails? Do I need to contact support or will they detect that automatically? If something needs to be fixed manually (e.g., hard drive, cpu, network), how long does one need to wait for dedicated servers? I'm used to cloud VMs where if one dies, I can quickly spin up another one effortlessly (I never have to contact support or anyth…

Hardware inside server is up to you to notify Hetzner. After more than 10 years never have an issue but disk degradation after many use.

Then you contact support, appoint disk change, you first deactivate disk on raid (save geometry etc), they replace disk and then you rebuild raid in new disk. That's it. With SSD you may not even need to do this anymore.

Re: Hetzner launches three new dedicated servers

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Gosh, I wish there were something similar in the US. Right now I'm on the IONOS "server of the month[1]," which is $33/mo for dedicated six-core, 16GB, 1TB HDD. I run game servers, which could benefit from SSDs and more RAM, but I'm priced out. I'd take the 44€ config in a heartbeat.

Is anybody aware of anything that's price competitive in the US (or within a 50ms ping)?

[1] https://www.ionos.com/servers/value-dedicated-server#package...

Re: Hetzner launches three new dedicated servers

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Noob question: if I rent one of these dedicated servers, what happens if some hardware fails? Do I need to contact support or will they detect that automatically? If something needs to be fixed manually (e.g., hard drive, cpu, network), how long does one need to wait for dedicated servers? I'm used to cloud VMs where if one dies, I can quickly spin up another one effortlessly (I never have to contact support or anyth…

Yes, you contact support provide them a description of what is faulty (disk with the exact serial number) and they gonna replace it usually within 30-60 mins.

Provisioning of servers was always quite fast. Same day or the next business day.

My experience is a little dated, I used to order bunch of dedicated boxes from them for our clients and with Hetzner we always had the best experience. Also the most bang for the buck.

Re: Hetzner launches three new dedicated servers

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- AX52: AMD Ryzen 7 7700 / 64 GB / 2x1 TB NVMe - From 59€ [1] - EX44: Intel Core i5-13500 / 64 GB / 2x512 GB NVMe - From 44€ [2] - EX101: Intel Core i9-13900 / 64 GB / 2x1.92 TB NVMe - From 84€ [3] [1] https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ax52 [2] https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ex44 [3] https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ex101

I really wish I could get dedicated hardware for somewhere close to that price here in Asia. It seems like Hetzner is the only company in the world offering these kind of prices, right? What's the catch?

I think what Hetzner have done is just specialise in doing one thing really really well and that is their product, they run servers. They don’t offer any of the „cloudy“ vendor lock in things like functions, DBaaS, blah blah but if you want to run a server (VM or BM) they have quite a solid offering. I really like them and use their products in lots of my projects.
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