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Hetzner launches three new dedicated servers

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Post by tarjei_huse »

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.

We maintain a contract with RedPill/Linpro for managing a DB cluster on Hetzner. When we ordered it it was cheaper to use Linpro + Hetzner than hosting the DB on Digital Ocean...

Re: Hetzner launches three new dedicated servers

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Post by wut42 »

TekMol wrote: post #135

I wish you could rent something like a dedicated server on an hourly basis. As I understand it, cloud VMs are not capable to run large neural networks like StableDiffusion, Llama etc because they don't have a GPU, right? I would like to play with these new toys, but I don't know where I can get a cloud machine capable of running them.

Lots of GPU Clouds around. To play with toys I use runpod's community cloud. Very affordable.

Re: Hetzner launches three new dedicated servers

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Post by Nextgrid »

nikanj wrote: post #147
qeternity wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Also the bandwidht is like 10x cheaper with much larger free tier. Hetzner bare metal have unlimited bandwidth.

The downside is your neighbours also having unlimited bandwidth. We had to rebuild one Citrix environment to a different (identical) box, because the first was in a network segment with terrible network performance. If you pull a short straw, your box will be sharing bandwidth with a few bittorrent seed boxes or someone’s video CDN node

For anything bandwidth-sensitive that can’t be spread out across multiple nodes I’d shell out for the 10Gbit option which is still reasonably priced and still includes 20TB of free bandwidth.

Re: Hetzner launches three new dedicated servers

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Post by metalspot »

datadeft wrote: post #107
latch wrote: post #54

tl;dr Mini rant (pro dedicated, anti-cloud) Amazon has done an amazing job of convincing people that their hosting choice is between cloud (aka, AWS) or the higher-risk, knowledge intensive, self-hosting (aka, colocation). You see this play out all the time in HN comments. CTOs make expensive and expansive decisions believing these are the only two options. AWS has been so good at this, that for CEOs and some younger…

Based on my two decade experience in the field ranging being part of the team that was building super computers to one that was moving amazon.com to aws, there are many dimensions that you need to consider for computational workloads. The primary deciding factor is always security. You simply cannot use any small vendor because of the physical security (or the lack thereof). Unless of course you do not care about sec…

> The primary deciding factor is always security

so, anywhere where your workloads or data are physically co-located on the same hardware as someone else's should be automatically disqualified, right?

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Post by yread »

bluelu wrote: post #112

I can only recommend hetzner. At my former company, we started with 8 servers with them nearly 15 years ago and now have more than 6000 servers with them. https://www.hetzner.com/customers/talkwalker

Interesting! How did you get GPU servers? They used to be available but can you still get them? And can you share more details about the automated hardware failure monitoring?

Re: Hetzner launches three new dedicated servers

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Post by nubinetwork »

esperent wrote: post #14

This website disables text selection on mobile. I can never understand why a company would do this. There's several technical terms on the page I want to look up, why make this difficult for me?

That's just as crap as the websites that either disable the back button, or fill it full of redirect pages, so you can't go back without opening a new tab. Bring back the days where we could just disable JavaScript.

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Post by pirsquare »

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.

And you will get proper customer support with Hetzner

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Post by tinus_hn »

unxdfa wrote: post #145
abujazar wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe you're behind «Carrier-grade NAT», sharing your public IP with thousands of other customers?

No I've got a paid static IP which I exclusively own on a business service line. There is no excuse for being a victim of an algorithm. And I never get this anywhere else!

As you might understand that is exactly what everybody, both the guilty and the innocent, says.

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Post by arp242 »

unxdfa wrote: post #145
abujazar wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe you're behind «Carrier-grade NAT», sharing your public IP with thousands of other customers?

No I've got a paid static IP which I exclusively own on a business service line. There is no excuse for being a victim of an algorithm. And I never get this anywhere else!

My static IP was erroneously blocked from Wikipedia as some previous owner used it to run open proxies or the like. Never had any problems anywhere else. It happens.

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Post by numlock86 »

abujazar wrote: post #131

I've been using Hetzner servers for ~15 years with multiple clients and employers, and always been disappointed with other providers compared to what Hetzner delivers. OVH with their frequent network level outages, the 2021 fire and so on. DigitalOcean with their way too frequent and long lasting maintenance windows. And AWS/GCP/Azure with their obscene pricing, ridiculous SLA and occasional hour-lasting outages. One…

Have you tried Contabo? That has been my go-to hoster for the past decade.
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