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Hetzner Introduces ARM64 Cloud Servers

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Re: Hetzner Introduces ARM64 Cloud Servers

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A lot of people confuse the passport (Pass) with the national identity card (Personalausweis). There's no place of residence stated on the German passport, but it is part of the Personalausweis. Since German citizens by law are required to own a Personalausweis (there's no mandate to carry it around, just having it somewhere in a drawer suffices), practically all businesses in Germany do rely on the Personalausweis t…

This is a very German thing. I’ve never seen ID cards from other countries that include an address of residence. Also the obligation to own an ID card is a very foreign concept in most other countries. I had that issue with German companies before, especially those who rarely deal with international customers. For example in Austria only a few people own an ID card (most people have a passport, but not everyone). So…

Spain does that

Re: Hetzner Introduces ARM64 Cloud Servers

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I don't understand the hype around ARM64 in the server space. Is this just due to all the marketing from Apple around their proprietary M processors leaking into the enterprise market? The latest Xeon and EPYC offerings are very performance competitive, I doubt we need to overhaul and entire processor ISA paradigm for continued improvements.

I use an M1 Mac, and I'd prefer to develop and deploy on the same CPU architecture. For M1 users the x86 is an alien cross-compilation target.

Re: Hetzner Introduces ARM64 Cloud Servers

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Never figured out how to use Hertzner. Wanted to try since they get such a good reputation on here, but they banned my account when their system presented no way for me to verify my identity. The required either PayPal or passport. I have no PayPal account, and their 3rd party verification system only allows passport from your country of residence (signup requires providing a contact address and they pre fill using t…

> Never figured out how to use Hertzner. Wanted to try since they get such a good reputation on here, but they banned my account when their system presented no way for me to verify my identity. Is this something new? I (Norwegian) have been using Hetzner for 10+ years, and never had a problem, and never had to attest my identity. CurrentlyI have a four servers running there. The last one was set up approx. a year ago…

I'm Norwegian and have used hetzner for years - i had to send a copy of my passport to get started.

Re: Hetzner Introduces ARM64 Cloud Servers

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More benchmarking. Some of the speedtests coming back >10gigs is a bit of a surprise given price point https://hastebin.com/share/biyejiriyi.bash https://hastebin.com/share/unocorikef.bash https://hastebin.com/share/ujixoxazit.bash https://hastebin.com/share/ofezuyodob.bash

This probably won't last, the servers aren't fully loaded with VMs yet.

I regularly get 3-5gbit on their regular cloud servers to consumer ISPs. They definitly don't overbook their vms regarding bandwith.

Re: Hetzner Introduces ARM64 Cloud Servers

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Old Skylake cloud instances is "really bad" in the current day compared to Rome/Milan/Genoa, Sapphire Rapids and Graviton 3 for example. We've moved on from lakes!

To be fair Ampere Altra is old now too. Kinda a contemporary with Ice Lake and the tail end of Skylake. Hetzner offering them right now is curious. Maybe its a pipecleaner for the next Ampere gen?

The new Altra developer kit is also very cheap. I wonder if Ampere is dumping overstocked inventory. Given their track record I don't expect the One to be available any time soon.

Re: Hetzner Introduces ARM64 Cloud Servers

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post #98

More benchmarking. Some of the speedtests coming back >10gigs is a bit of a surprise given price point https://hastebin.com/share/biyejiriyi.bash https://hastebin.com/share/unocorikef.bash https://hastebin.com/share/ujixoxazit.bash https://hastebin.com/share/ofezuyodob.bash

For comparison, here's an AWS a1.large instance (2cpus, 4GB ram) YABS benchmark I just ran https://gist.githubusercontent.com/12932/8ba27254846072a43b0...

Jikes. Why is the hdd read so bad? 6 MB/s. Six?

Re: Hetzner Introduces ARM64 Cloud Servers

#157
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I think they really care about two things: VAT and cryptocurrency. Passports are required to prove you should or should not pay the 19% VAT, and crypto (namely, SIA) destroy their servers.

Whoa whoa whoa I can opt out of paying VAT? How do I do this!

You prove you don't reside on the EU, and they don't bill you the VAT.

(But I believe the KYC rules aren't only because of this.)

Re: Hetzner Introduces ARM64 Cloud Servers

#158
post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A lot of people confuse the passport (Pass) with the national identity card (Personalausweis). There's no place of residence stated on the German passport, but it is part of the Personalausweis. Since German citizens by law are required to own a Personalausweis (there's no mandate to carry it around, just having it somewhere in a drawer suffices), practically all businesses in Germany do rely on the Personalausweis t…

This is a very German thing. I’ve never seen ID cards from other countries that include an address of residence. Also the obligation to own an ID card is a very foreign concept in most other countries. I had that issue with German companies before, especially those who rarely deal with international customers. For example in Austria only a few people own an ID card (most people have a passport, but not everyone). So…

Spain also has the address in the DNI (national document of identity), and as the Germans Spain's citizens are also required to have such a document. Many public and private services will ask for your DNI if they need to validate your identity.

Re: Hetzner Introduces ARM64 Cloud Servers

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post #34

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Any recommendations for an uncomplicated server OS which will just run Docker, SSH and not much more? I'm currently running Ubuntu but am open to alternatives. My local Raspberry Pi uses a fun, but little maintained OS called Hypriot which is just this: Start Docker and not much more.

RHEL, Debian. If you're serious about running _everything_ in containers, then maybe RHEL Edge? RHEL + microshift? Fedora Silverblue? openSUSE MicroOS?

You probably want podman, not Docker, on RedHat (and SuSe).

Re: Hetzner Introduces ARM64 Cloud Servers

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I've seen the other side of this. Our SaaS (a data API) has a number of "customers" who attempt to use us (or our competitors; we're not special here) to power some data displays on their phishing-scam websites, to make them seem more legitimate. We ban these people — they're violating our ToU by engaging in illegal activities. But they come back. With different names, different IPs, different browsers, different cre…

It’s likely they’re just using hacked sites. I’ve seen a WordPress site used as a Viagra botnet. The owner of the business thought it was good for them because they would get more traffic so they had given the other party root access. :sigh: the shit you see as a contractor… But I’d be willing to bet you’re seeing hacked servers, not necessarily Hetzner’s fault. Hell, they didn’t even have ipv6 firewalls until recent…

I have pretty good reason to believe that scammers are using purchased Hetzner credentials — which is that some scammers are just right out there in the open, talking about how they do what they do: https://teletype.in/@slivmens/LjPaei8pMTT

Translated quote:

> To do this, we go here: [link to carding forum] and create a topic in the section "verified Hetzner accounts."

> Offer price — no more than 400 rubles is needed. The priority is people from Ukraine, as they have benefits. GEO of the person who verifies the account - any, excluding Russia due to sanctions.

> Another important detail: the seller must register a fresh GMail account, use that account to create an account on Hetzner, and verify it themselves.

> After verification, we wait 3 days before the creation of the new server — otherwise the likelihood of the account being blocked for abuse increases.

> After purchasing the account credentials, we change the password, both on the Gmail account, and on the Hetzner account.

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