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Would anyone care to comment on the quality and English skills of their support? We considered Hetzner, but were concerned about the potential pitfalls of doing low-level support with a language barrier.
They also answer quickly and document pretty well the problem/reason.
Hetzner is nirvana for pre-ramen profitable big data startups. You can build a cluster for a whole lot less than Amazon-- in many cases 1/10th the cost (depending on which resources are higher priority, for us.) The question is-- can you host in germany and serve a customer base that is primarily in the USA? Our application isn't too latency intensive... but this is my primary concern. Would it be stupid for an ameri…
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
Did you measure the latency difference by any chance? I am really considering buying one host there, would love to get an idea on this.
Compare with SoftLayer which has decided to charge through the nose for their RAM upgrades: going from 16 to 64GB RAM on their E5 servers is an additional $1200/month. They're far more expensive than e.g. Rackspace there for some reason.
I've never seen anyone running a reverse auction to rent their old hardware out before: https://robot.your-server.de/order/market I guess if they're not short of space for hardware & cooling then this is a profitable way to put old hardware to use until the demand falls below the running costs. I wonder what the reliability is like?
If they have an affiliate scheme that would make s nice side project
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?
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> Except OVH is a haven for nefarious use (seedboxes, etc.) Particularly through certain resellers, including the own "budget line" ( http://www.kimsufi.co.uk/ ). Not that I'd know anything about nefariousness, 'onest guv.
Their french site has slightly better prices for some reason: http://www.kimsufi.com/fr/
If not it might just be that they like to quote nice round figures (£14.99 and €14.99 perhaps) - this happens sometimes when the pound and the euro are (or recently have been) near parity.
Hetzner is nirvana for pre-ramen profitable big data startups. You can build a cluster for a whole lot less than Amazon-- in many cases 1/10th the cost (depending on which resources are higher priority, for us.) The question is-- can you host in germany and serve a customer base that is primarily in the USA? Our application isn't too latency intensive... but this is my primary concern. Would it be stupid for an ameri…
Totally random off the cuff... I've been fighting with an EX 4S server for the last week, trying to set up Xen under Debian Squeeze... anyone got some rock-solid instructions which they know work? I've tried both my own recipes and various tutorials on the web, but so far no luck. I managed to get Xen sort of working at one point, but then the networking wasn't working. I'm about ready to start throwing things out th…
How exactly are you trying to setup networking? Bridged, routed, NAT on dom0 vs domU?
These two pages might help you, though both are slightly out of date:
http://www.pc-freak.net/blog/how-to-configure-and-enable-xen...
http://wiki.kartbuilding.net/index.php/Xen_Networking#Two-wa... (more out of date, but ideas are correct)
EDIT: ZFSonlinux is worth looking into as it's becoming fairly mature and provides the perfect storage for xen instances.