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Re: Hetzner launches three new dedicated servers

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Post by cowfish »

datadeft wrote: post #92
unxdfa wrote: post #42

Yeah when I land on your web site and I get: Request on Hold - Suspicous Activity Detected. I'm turned off instantly. I'm on a static IP on a respectable ISP in the UK and I'm not waiting in a queue for 57 seconds and counting to look at the sales pitch. Edit: so I use that time wisely to shitpost about it on HN, then check TrustPilot and I see: "Unfortunately, based on your description (I need a ticket number or oth…

Yeah companies and their small minded "sysadmins" are very eager to use an IP address as the primary predictor of hostile intent, sometimes they add user-agent as well. Not sure why but this is the sort of behaviour why I cannot trust such companies with my business.

To put that in perspective, I am currently in a developing country and CloudFlare websites are making me click 'I am human' checkboxes dozens of times per day.

Re: Hetzner launches three new dedicated servers

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Post by manmanic »

quickthrower2 wrote: post #74
theK wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

They do some cloudy stuff, https://www.hetzner.com/cloud , but admittedly it is the basics. Not even a Digital Ocean, let alone an AWS.

After many years of using Hetzner dedicated servers, I recently started using their US cloud for a project. So far, extremely happy, and it's very cost effective. Even cheaper than Digital Ocean (which I also use extensively).

Re: Hetzner launches three new dedicated servers

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Post by akvadrako »

jhoelzel wrote: post #37

I have been working in the industry since 20 years and i have not a single bad word to loose about Hetzner. Their Service has always been impeccable and their servers just run. I have been running k8s clusters on hetzner for quite some time now and the flexibility for the price is exactly what i expect from a hoster! Now with this addition Hetzner closes another gap that made projects spends thousands more on enterpr…

Not my experience. Hetzner is really a discount provider, though they may have gotten better.

I used to work for a team that rented dozens of servers from them and we had disk failures almost every other week, which required creating a support ticket and asking them to swap out the drive so we could rebuild the RAID array.

They used regular SATA consumer drives and they were probably pretty old or refurbished or something.

Re: Hetzner launches three new dedicated servers

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Post by izacus »

akvadrako wrote: post #114
jhoelzel wrote: post #37

I have been working in the industry since 20 years and i have not a single bad word to loose about Hetzner. Their Service has always been impeccable and their servers just run. I have been running k8s clusters on hetzner for quite some time now and the flexibility for the price is exactly what i expect from a hoster! Now with this addition Hetzner closes another gap that made projects spends thousands more on enterpr…

Not my experience. Hetzner is really a discount provider, though they may have gotten better. I used to work for a team that rented dozens of servers from them and we had disk failures almost every other week, which required creating a support ticket and asking them to swap out the drive so we could rebuild the RAID array. They used regular SATA consumer drives and they were probably pretty old or refurbished or some…

Yeah, they indeed are a discount provider, which means that they're about as reliable as AWS or GCP services (which have constant partial failures).

I've been very happy with Hetzner for some workloads.

Re: Hetzner launches three new dedicated servers

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Post by FooBarWidget »

jbverschoor wrote: post #91
jhoelzel wrote: post #37

I have been working in the industry since 20 years and i have not a single bad word to loose about Hetzner. Their Service has always been impeccable and their servers just run. I have been running k8s clusters on hetzner for quite some time now and the flexibility for the price is exactly what i expect from a hoster! Now with this addition Hetzner closes another gap that made projects spends thousands more on enterpr…

They had some problems about 10-15 years ago (hardware, network). The fire some time ago wasn’t cool either

I also had problems with Hetzner hardware ~10 years ago, as in servers randomly freezing due to CPU bugs. But in the past few years I haven't encountered problems at all. I have two dedicated servers for running CPU-intensive CI/CD workloads and for the past few years they've run smoothly.

Re: Hetzner launches three new dedicated servers

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Post by qeternity »

halotrope wrote: post #94

Recently moved some workloads from GCP to a dedicated Hetzner box with 12900k, 128GB ram and 2TB NVME raid. This thing SCREAMS, running e.g Postgres with the same capacity in GCP would probbably cost > $1k/mo. Hetzner takes around 120 EUR. Also the bandwidht is like 10x cheaper with much larger free tier.

> Also the bandwidht is like 10x cheaper with much larger free tier.

Hetzner bare metal have unlimited bandwidth.

Re: Hetzner launches three new dedicated servers

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Post by tinco »

throwaway77384 wrote: post #110

Does anyone know of a managed postgres service that happens to use Hetzner? I'm running my own PG instances on Hetzner, but getting tired of managing it myself. Going with a 3rd party makes me worried about latency (currently it's like 1-4ms...I'd rather not increase that to 50ms for a service located somewhere else). Haven't found anything by Googling, so was wondering if anyone here works somewhere that does this.

Maybe crunchy data? (https://www.crunchydata.com/products/crunchy-high-availabili...) haven't tried it myself, it sounds like a very nice service. Maybe someone here has experience.
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