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Hetzner introduces new server product with insane parameters for 59 EUR/mth

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Re: Hetzner introduces new server product with insane parameters for 59 EUR/mth

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Post by ergo14 »

zerathul wrote: post #18

can anyone explain how is this even possible considering how expensive that piece of hardware is?

I belive I saw some posts on webhostingtalk or some other forums that stated, that their method of operations is to buy tons of hardware - single platform (mobo) that they build their offering on - with greatly discounted prices from manufacturer. They will provide it for a year or so, and then they will create new platform again after a while after they are out of stock, this happens once every year I think. Also keep in mind those are not "server grade" components so don't count on expansions to the servers/ECC RAM - this kind of stuff - you want to scale - just buy more boxes, there are upgrade possibilities, but they are limited to my understanding.

Re: Hetzner introduces new server product with insane parameters for 59 EUR/mth

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Post by Uchikoma »

I'm using Hetzner for 10years, with very very few major problems (I only remember 1).

I compared them some time ago to EC2 pricewise:

http://codemonkeyism.com/dark-side-virtualized-servers-cloud...

And setup of a new server is quite fast too.

Re: Hetzner introduces new server product with insane parameters for 59 EUR/mth

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Post by ergo14 »

guan wrote: post #15
lusr wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interestingly, the 10TB only applies to outgoing traffic. For most people this probably isn't that important but for my current project it's great because the bulk of my bandwidth will be users uploading data and/or me fetching that data on their behalf.

Incoming traffic to AWS is also free.

On a sidenote: AWS is way more expensive than dedis in every calculation I make for my business.

Re: Hetzner introduces new server product with insane parameters for 59 EUR/mth

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Post by latch »

zerathul wrote: post #18

can anyone explain how is this even possible considering how expensive that piece of hardware is?

As long as the price > operating cost, they'll eventually make money on it. You could say that they take a different approach to say Rackspace or Softlayer which try to recoup the initial investment during the first month.

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Post by ergo14 »

Uchikoma wrote: post #22

I'm using Hetzner for 10years, with very very few major problems (I only remember 1). I compared them some time ago to EC2 pricewise: http://codemonkeyism.com/dark-side-virtualized-servers-cloud... And setup of a new server is quite fast too.

I agree, in every calculation I make, cloud seems to be too expensive for me.

Re: Hetzner introduces new server product with insane parameters for 59 EUR/mth

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Post by ypcx »

zerathul wrote: post #18

can anyone explain how is this even possible considering how expensive that piece of hardware is?

It's a promo offer, they will only offer a limited number of them, and in few months introduce a better one.

Also I've been given faulty hardware at Hetzner and the support was quite ass-hatty. I said fuck it, replace the drive and reflash the OS, but they no, the RAID must rebuild. At the end of day, MySQL was still crashing under a heavy load, but that could have been software problem, not sure if I can blame Hetzner. What I didn't like, if you open the contract eg on 15th, then cancel a month ahead, eg on 10th, they will still bill you till the end of the month, 15 more days. They're still one of the best non cloud hosts though.

edit: now I remember - they actually insisted on the faulty drive (that I reported based on mdstat logs) to be hardware-checked in the machine while the machine is offline. Mind you, this drive was faulty from the get go.

Re: Hetzner introduces new server product with insane parameters for 59 EUR/mth

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Post by sek »

slig wrote: post #25

Do people outside EU get 19% off from VAT?

A German company would get 19% back from the Government, but AFAIK a foreign company doesn't have to pay it in the first place, so you can calculate it out.

Incredible, maybe they made a mistake on their site. Hetzner has a very good reputation here in Germany, otherwise i would expect something fishy.

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