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Re: Hetzner Cloud

#21
I am using their previous "VServer" offering and while it is not easily visible on their landing page it is possible to reboot their VPS into either a Linux based or a FreeBSD rescue image and install your favourite Linux distro or FreeBSD from there.

This way you can run for example a FreeBSD or Arch Linux VPS for under 3 Euro per month. :)

Re: Hetzner Cloud

#22
Great prices.

What's strange is that only RAM and disk space increase linearly with the price, not the CPU, nor the traffic. That creates an incentive to buy small instances and getting a lot more for your buck.

Re: Hetzner Cloud

#23
post #4

Whats the difference to their VPS's ? I had one until last month with pretty much the specs of the cx21 but it cost a little bit more ? Are they just lowering their prices or am I missing out on features ?

You can't rent a VPS with an API call, can you?

Re: Hetzner Cloud

#24

Hetzner still haven't said anything to me about Spectre/Meltdown, or rebooted my VPS, so I'm not sure I trust them any more!

They have written an extensive article about it here: https://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/Spectre_and_Meltdown/en

In the context of renting one of their VPS this is fair criticism. The information handed out by Hetzner is not adequate regarding their exposure and timeframe for patching. It's been several weeks since the public disclosure, and if they are still vulnerable for meltdown this puts all customers systems at massive risk.

"The host systems will be updated to fix the vulnerabilities as soon as possible. The necessary reboots will be announced on Hetzner Status. You may subscribe to be notified. "

Re: Hetzner Cloud

#25
Keep in mind that Hetzner has a rather lax (non-existing?) policy when it comes to stopping outbound spam, so make sure to check that IPs you get from them are not on MX blacklists.

To clarify - saying this as someone who was forced to blacklist their IPs on more than one occassion, not as someone who ran into tainted IPs as their customer.

Re: Hetzner Cloud

#26
post #18
post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yes, it is. German laws for data protection apply.

Not German, but European Laws apply. This ( http://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/oj ) replaces all data proyection laws in the EU. Must comply now, but sanctions won't be in effect until may 25th.

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Re: Hetzner Cloud

#29
Can anyone compare their service to Linode or DigitalOcean? I'm currently using Linode but the Hetzner prices seem way lower:

For 35€ a month I get 32GB RAM, 8 vCPUs, 240GB SSD + 20TB Traffic. The comparable 40$ plan for Linode offers 8GB RAM 4 CPU Cores 48GB SSD and 3 TB Transfer (See: https://www.linode.com/pricing)

Am I missing something or is Hetzner just way more competetive?

https://www.linode.com/pricing

Re: Hetzner Cloud

#30
post #7

Hetzner used to be a rather big conventional hoster. I'm surprised to see them up and running these days when all big co seemed to have migrated to that cloud thingy

Well, they cost very little in comparison to the big cloud hosters and have great performance. Most startups nowadays can be hosted on a single big vertical machine just fine with perhaps another machine for a hot spare. I think the much-heralded cloud elasticity for most startups only serves to please investors "we can scale if we blow up over night!".

I once allocated a dedicated machine from Hetzner faster than I get a stupid crippled VM from AWS
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