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Hetzner Introduces ARM64 Cloud Servers

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Re: Hetzner Introduces ARM64 Cloud Servers

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Post by andix »

krab wrote: post #134
andix wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Strange for me - the CZ ID cards work the same way as described.

True. I just checked the ID cards for a few EU countries, and most of them don't seem to include an address of residence (I checked Poland, Netherlands, Belgium, Finland and Switzerland). France includes an address too.

https://www.consilium.europa.eu/prado/en/search-by-document-...

Re: Hetzner Introduces ARM64 Cloud Servers

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Post by vidarh »

thatwasunusual wrote: post #66
Galaco wrote: post #38

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…

Norwegian living in the UK, and have used Hetzner for years, both via a personal account and more recently via a corporate account (UK company, Norwegian citizen), and it's not been an issue. For one of the other corporate accounts I used it for the managing director at the time (UK company, UK citizen) did have to provide ID, though. Not clear exactly which criteria has been in place when and for whom.

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Post by mardifoufs »

loeg wrote: post #96
re-thc wrote: post #28

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The 1 that was mostly canned? See: https://www.anandtech.com/show/15631/intels-cooper-lake-plan... It's limited everywhere.

> The company is set to only make the hardware available for priority scale-out customers who have already designed quad-socket and eight-socket platforms around the hardware. I work at one of those customers; we use loads of them. Nevermind Ice Lake / Alder Lake (2021) / Raptor Lake (2022) -- Intel hasn't abandoned the "Lake" naming scheme yet.

Facebook?

Re: Hetzner Introduces ARM64 Cloud Servers

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Post by mjochim »

yrro wrote: post #110
EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK wrote: post #88

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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!

Have a company whose business purpose justifies spending company money on servers. Make a profit so you have company money to spend. Spend it on servers. There you go.

Re: Hetzner Introduces ARM64 Cloud Servers

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Post by pachico »

andix wrote: post #129
pachico wrote: post #126

We are decommissioning all our dedicated servers at Hetzner. This is not because we didn't like that service but because we are concentrating our efforts in AWS. It's been a wonderful ride. It's cheap and reliable. I wish our team was big enough to afford having to deal with dedicated hardware.

Hetzner also has cloud servers and an API to provision them. There is even a terraform module for hetzner cloud. It works very well. But they don’t provide any managed services, like databases or blob storage.

Yup, reason why we stay in AWS

Re: Hetzner Introduces ARM64 Cloud Servers

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Post by Jamie9912 »

Havoc wrote: 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...

Re: Hetzner Introduces ARM64 Cloud Servers

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Post by JacobiX »

Galaco wrote: post #38

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…

Their compliance process is quite abysmal.

This is actually exactly what happened with us. After creating a new account with the intention of exploring the ARM64 services, our account was unexpectedly suspended. I contacted them to have information on the specific concerns regarding my customer information and the reason for deactivating my account. Unfortunately, we did not receive any response to our inquiries.

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Post by andix »

rascul wrote: post #138
andix wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> I’ve never seen ID cards from other countries that include an address of residence. In the USA the driver's licenses are ID cards and have addresses. Or if you don't have a license you can get a regular ID card, which has an address. The laws vary from state to state about how long you can go after you move before it gets updated. I'm not aware of a legal requirement to have one though, unless you're driving.

I thought the only way in the US to prove your address of residence is collecting your last few phone bills and bank statements. It was a huge LOL moment, when I first heard about that.

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Post by qwertox »

Galaco wrote: post #38

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…

> 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 this address; you can’t change the passport country)

Sounds like a good thing to do?

My current hoster in Germany made a surprise call and asked me what the name of the hotel near the address I provided was. This after I submitted the order and before they accepted.

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Post by aent »

Galaco wrote: post #38

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…

I provided them with my passport and all the other documents they requested and they still banned me with no recourse, so yeah, their signup process is the worst I have ever experienced.
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