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European server provider Hetzner now offers a 64GB RAM box for 109€/mon

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Re: European server provider Hetzner now offers a 64GB RAM box for 109€/mon

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Post by st3fan »

Smerity wrote: post #60
ashleyw wrote: post #38

Their VPS service looks fantastic also: http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix_vserver/vserv... Their 2GB plan is 3x cheaper than Linode…and you get over 4x the data transfer! Does anyone know how the performance compares?

I did a light benchmark of their 512MB VPS[1] which is insanely cheap. The only things that change when moving to the 2GB VPS is RAM, hard drive space and total data transfer. The CPU remains a single core and the same speed according to [2]. It's possible there's less contention but you'd need to find a benchmark for the 2GB VPS to know for sure. If you're after any specific benchmarks give me a yell and I'll see if…

"Sent passport scan to Hetzner" - Really?

Re: European server provider Hetzner now offers a 64GB RAM box for 109€/mon

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Post by rmoriz »

hamidpalo wrote: post #69

Does anyone know how they can provide bandwidth for so cheap? 7 EUR for a TB of traffic is insanely cheap.

nearly-free peering at http://de-cix.net/ and http://www.n-ix.net/ to offload a big load of traffic + bandwidth and fibres are not that expensive here in Germany (unless you go with Deutsche Telekom).

Re: European server provider Hetzner now offers a 64GB RAM box for 109€/mon

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Post by meskyanichi »

ashleyw wrote: post #38

Their VPS service looks fantastic also: http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix_vserver/vserv... Their 2GB plan is 3x cheaper than Linode…and you get over 4x the data transfer! Does anyone know how the performance compares?

You could also just get a dedicated server with a good chunk of ram. Say, 32gb or the new 64gb one. Then install XEN or KVM on it and run your own VPS farm instead. It'll save you $800-1600 USD/month in the long-run once you fill up the whole box with VPSs.

Another thing to note is that the new 64gb instance trucks a hexacore (6) core CPU and includes hyper-threading. Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe this means you can run 12 virtual cores in your XEN/KVM instances with this, instead of only 1 which is provided by the Hetzner VPS's. That's quite a difference.

With my 32gb box (which is a quad core with hyper-threading) my XEN instances can spin up to 8 virtual cores, according to the (h)top utility.

Re: European server provider Hetzner now offers a 64GB RAM box for 109€/mon

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Post by justincormack »

EwanToo wrote: post #68
justincormack wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you have a source on Amazon not using ECC?

I don't think there's a confirmed source, but there's certainly indications, for example, an AWS post that they use ECC memory for the GPUs in their cluster GPU instance http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2010/11/new-ec2-instance-type-the... Given that they list both the standard memory and GPU memory next to each other, but only put ECC next to the GPU memory, it seems relatively likely to me that the standard server memory…

But Nvidia only sell Tesla's with ECC. I don't really read that implication into this.

On the other hand, the fact that https://forums.aws.amazon.com/message.jspa?messageID=203167 has never been answered suggests they do not, as they would answer affirmatively if it was true surely. Of course they may use a mixture.

EDIT: Interesting that James Hamilton is on their team and thinks they should use it http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2009/10/07/YouReallyDONeedE...

Re: European server provider Hetzner now offers a 64GB RAM box for 109€/mon

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Post by meskyanichi »

st3fan wrote: post #71
Smerity wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I did a light benchmark of their 512MB VPS[1] which is insanely cheap. The only things that change when moving to the 2GB VPS is RAM, hard drive space and total data transfer. The CPU remains a single core and the same speed according to [2]. It's possible there's less contention but you'd need to find a benchmark for the 2GB VPS to know for sure. If you're after any specific benchmarks give me a yell and I'll see if…

"Sent passport scan to Hetzner" - Really?

It actually says "Sent"?

Re: European server provider Hetzner now offers a 64GB RAM box for 109€/mon

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Post by james33 »

conradfr wrote: post #56
rmoriz wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are some other companies in Germany and France that operate for over a decade at very affordable prices. OVH, Strato, 1&1 to name some. If you're from outside the EU you'll probably even get the servers without having to pay the 19% VAT.

Online.net as well. Companies never pay VAT anyway, usually professional services display mainly prices without it.

All of the price listings on Hetzner says that VAT is included in the price.

Re: European server provider Hetzner now offers a 64GB RAM box for 109€/mon

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Post by cake »

aes256 wrote: post #28
nolok wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Similar to French OVH in a lot of way

Except OVH is a haven for nefarious use (seedboxes, etc.) and Hetzner most certainly is not!

What makes you say that Hetzner isn't "a haven for nefarious use" ?

Re: European server provider Hetzner now offers a 64GB RAM box for 109€/mon

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Post by EwanToo »

justincormack wrote: post #74
EwanToo wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think there's a confirmed source, but there's certainly indications, for example, an AWS post that they use ECC memory for the GPUs in their cluster GPU instance http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2010/11/new-ec2-instance-type-the... Given that they list both the standard memory and GPU memory next to each other, but only put ECC next to the GPU memory, it seems relatively likely to me that the standard server memory…

But Nvidia only sell Tesla's with ECC. I don't really read that implication into this. On the other hand, the fact that https://forums.aws.amazon.com/message.jspa?messageID=203167 has never been answered suggests they do not, as they would answer affirmatively if it was true surely. Of course they may use a mixture. EDIT: Interesting that James Hamilton is on their team and thinks they should use it http://perspectiv…

I can well imagine that newer machines have it, and older ones don't, and slowly over time they'll end up with everyone using ECC.

The costs involved were a lot higher 3-5 years ago than they are today.

Re: European server provider Hetzner now offers a 64GB RAM box for 109€/mon

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Post by jakeonthemove »

Interesting... the only hosting company with comparable prices and features in the US is 1and1 (which is actually owned by a German company), but their tech support has been pretty bad (takes them freaking days to replace hardware - on the other hand, EVERYTHING can be done remotely)...

I wonder if hosting in Germany would affect a site's response time and ranking on Google in the US?

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