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Hetzner launches three new dedicated servers

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Re: Hetzner launches three new dedicated servers

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Post by unxdfa »

tinus_hn wrote: post #158
unxdfa wrote: post #145

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

In a court of law I am innocent until proven guilty.

In technology circles I am guilty until proven innocent.

That's the difference, the outcome of which is the technology provider can quite frankly fuck off.

Re: Hetzner launches three new dedicated servers

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Post by GOATS- »

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…

It's like people forget that Leaseweb and Worldstream exist.

Re: Hetzner launches three new dedicated servers

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Post by unxdfa »

arp242 wrote: post #159
unxdfa wrote: post #145

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

"It happens" is a bad defence.

Re: Hetzner launches three new dedicated servers

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Post by outime »

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…

While I like Hetzner a lot and can share your recommendations, I just don't see how it compares to full-blown cloud providers like AWS, GCP or Azure. It's a common misconception to put them at the same level when the offering is completely different.

Nobody seriously uses AWS/GCP/Azure to have a couple VMs or dedicated servers alone. If someone can run their full workload in e.g. Hetzner without much hassle then they shouldn't be using any of the other cloud platforms in the first place as they'd be definitely overpaying.

EDIT: I want to clarify that I unfortunately do know some companies use the big 3 as simple VPS providers but it seems that everybody agree here that it's a waste of money and that's one of my main points, which is also why the comparison of the big ones vs Hetzner or any other standalone VPS/dedicated server provider is pointless as they serve different use cases.

Re: Hetzner launches three new dedicated servers

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Post by pelagicAustral »

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…

I agree with your judgement on OVH and the top tier cloud providers. I've never used Hetzner but I've had good experieces with UpCloud, Vultr and Linode/Akamai. These three providers are my defacto goto everytime I need to deploy stuff...

Re: Hetzner launches three new dedicated servers

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Post by input_sh »

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.

Server with GPUs are expensive because no provider wants to turn their datacenter into someone else's mining rig. You can get them, but they'll cost you.

In Hetzner's case, you'll find some with GTX 1080 (https://www.hetzner.com/sb?additional=GPU), but they'll cost you at least double of what they'd cost without one.

Re: Hetzner launches three new dedicated servers

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Post by xslvrxslwt »

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…

Hetzner is not on the level of the any you mentioned. It's dirt cheap because latencies and protections against exploits are non-existent, sure it serves good when you don't have such needs but the moment you need any (i.e. DDoS protection and low/stable ms for game servers) - hetzner is out of the window.

- Someone that used to fry lil hetzner servers for fun

Re: Hetzner launches three new dedicated servers

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Post by 0xDEF »

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.

All the old European VPS/dedicated server providers are cheaper than Big Cloud.
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