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we have several servers at hetzner since 2009. The performance has been stunning. Biggest upside is probably the ability to buy 1 TB of bandwith for 6.90 €. What amazes me is the fact that they can provide such great service and still be highly profitable. Turnover in the fiscal year 2010 was 29.68 Million € with post tax profit being 8.925 Million €.
Great hosters! - cheap prices for lots of power - everything "just works" (only contacted for questions) - quick, friendly & to the point support service - great uptime - they are eco - 14 days money back (for root servers) Drawbacks - bigger latency for US/Asia/... - you do your own backups - they bill only after the end of month. had problems when card expired
Pros:
- virtual private servers (VPS) have a tun/tap device so that you can use the VPS as a VPN server. this is not necessarily common with all hosters
- good speed/connection/reliability
- good hardware for a fair price
Cons:
- I usually don't need to talk to customer support often, but I rent a managed server and once in a while, they shut it down for a major update. This is totally fine and they even try to do this in the night, but it happened already twice that they couldn't tell me the exact time (in a range of minutes) in advance when they shut it down and they just said something like "server is offline sometime between 7am and 11am". I have paying customers on my server and I want to put the website in maintenance mode to prevent data loss. "Sometime between 7am and 11am" is NOT an acceptable answer. The downtime itself is a matter of 5 minutes, but I would expect an accurate time to shorten the maintenance period.
- They announced a server downtime for "Tuesday night" once. So what is "Tuesday night"? Is it the night from Monday to Tuesday or Tuesday to Wednesday? Guess what, I put my website in maintenance mode in the wrong night. I hope, next time they'll get that straight and announce the correct date and time.
- They stored passwords for their managed server customers in plaintext until September 2011 and got hacked. I hope they learned from that, but still, extremely stupid.
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Is it hardware or a virtual server?
bare metal hardware of course: http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/405734_294418...
Great hosters! - cheap prices for lots of power - everything "just works" (only contacted for questions) - quick, friendly & to the point support service - great uptime - they are eco - 14 days money back (for root servers) Drawbacks - bigger latency for US/Asia/... - you do your own backups - they bill only after the end of month. had problems when card expired
Apart from that one hicup, it's been very reliable so far.
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bare metal hardware of course: http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/405734_294418...
is this from an actual hetzner datacenter?
it's linked on: http://www.facebook.com/HetznerOnline
and probably shows: http://www.datacenterpark.de/index_en.html
Here's a list of all data centers: http://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/Rechenzentren_und_Anbindung...
I have two dedicated servers (EX 6 with ECC) they are awesome. Until now I had no issue with them.
I hope they continue this way.
Their 2GB plan is 3x cheaper than Linode…and you get over 4x the data transfer! Does anyone know how the performance compares?
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Is it hardware or a virtual server?
bare metal hardware of course: http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/405734_294418...