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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 #15

How is this possible? With the HW and operational costs they have to be in deep minus.. Eg linode.com is considered good and they seem to be more expensive by an order of magnitude. Can somebody tell me what the catch is?

Is it hardware or a virtual server?

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

#22

Question: If I host the domain for my UK business on one of these (and say it is a generic .com - not a .co.uk domain), will it influence my google.co.uk SERP ranking massively ? How would Google know my .com site is UK based?

I am not an expert, but my understanding is that it would have some effect (worse than UK hosting, presumably better than outside EU), but I doubt very much. Faster hosting should have a positive effect, too.

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

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post #18
post #15

How is this possible? With the HW and operational costs they have to be in deep minus.. Eg linode.com is considered good and they seem to be more expensive by an order of magnitude. Can somebody tell me what the catch is?

Hetzner AG is highly profitable. They have to publish a balance sheet at http://www.bundesanzeiger.de/ (German only) Annual net profits: 2008: 4.077.791,31 € 2009: 4.448.824,49 € 2010: 8.925.128,81 € Accumulated profits: 2008: 9.030.980,10 € 2009: 13.479.804,59 € 2010: 22.404.933,40 € key facts: - cheap energy + human resources by building custom colocation facilities in regions where cheap cooling+power is available…

Similar to French OVH in a lot of way

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

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post #21
post #15

How is this possible? With the HW and operational costs they have to be in deep minus.. Eg linode.com is considered good and they seem to be more expensive by an order of magnitude. Can somebody tell me what the catch is?

Is it hardware or a virtual server?

bare metal hardware of course:

http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/405734_294418...

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

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post #25
post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hetzner AG is highly profitable. They have to publish a balance sheet at http://www.bundesanzeiger.de/ (German only) Annual net profits: 2008: 4.077.791,31 € 2009: 4.448.824,49 € 2010: 8.925.128,81 € Accumulated profits: 2008: 9.030.980,10 € 2009: 13.479.804,59 € 2010: 22.404.933,40 € key facts: - cheap energy + human resources by building custom colocation facilities in regions where cheap cooling+power is available…

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!

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

#30
post #24

Anybody having experience with running ESXi on these dedicated machines. Their online documentation says that it supports ESXi 5 and they put in a CD when you tell them with your order.

I have an ESXi 4 server on one of their servers, the setup was rather tricky - but it ran since ESXi was made free and had absolutely no problems.
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