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Re: Hetzner Apple Mac Mini Offering

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I just want a cheap way to live debug sites in Safari / Safari Mobile without being forced to purchase Apple hardware. Only reasonable option I've come across so far is buying used hardware. VM under Win10/AMD seems like a PITA.

Does browserstack not work for you?

Re: Hetzner Apple Mac Mini Offering

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post #38

I just want a cheap way to live debug sites in Safari / Safari Mobile without being forced to purchase Apple hardware. Only reasonable option I've come across so far is buying used hardware. VM under Win10/AMD seems like a PITA.

Used totally makes sense. I picked up a Mac Mini with a 27" monitor for $500.

Re: Hetzner Apple Mac Mini Offering

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I have seen mixed reviews about Hetzner online. Does anyone have any enlightening anecdotal evidence in favor or against the company?

They are truly great for thrifty do-it-yourself hosting. Don't expect customer support or discounts or anything, but their prices are impossible to beat, and everything works as advertised. The big gotcha is that their only points of presence are in Germany and Finland. My only gripe would be that running your business on Hetzner can be a little bit scary at times since they have so much unattended automation in plac…

> For example, if your server is erroneously sending traffic with private IP addresses out of its public interface, they will block the server without warning.

I had a CS class last semester where the students used some Hetzner cloud servers. I always got an email or two before having the servers IPs blocked. And it were mostly students' faults by choosing easy passwords..

I recommend Hetzner! No affiliation, just a happy user..

Re: Hetzner Apple Mac Mini Offering

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post #35

I have seen mixed reviews about Hetzner online. Does anyone have any enlightening anecdotal evidence in favor or against the company?

I've been their customer for over 2 years, no problems at all and I'm very happy with their prices and offering. Started with dedicated server and now I'm also using their cloud services for some of my EU-based clients. Can definitely recommend, I much prefer Hetzner vs no-name VPS providers when I need cheap VMs.

Re: Hetzner Apple Mac Mini Offering

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post #38

I just want a cheap way to live debug sites in Safari / Safari Mobile without being forced to purchase Apple hardware. Only reasonable option I've come across so far is buying used hardware. VM under Win10/AMD seems like a PITA.

Used totally makes sense. I picked up a Mac Mini with a 27" monitor for $500.

The M1 Mac Mini recently was only $600 on sale.

Re: Hetzner Apple Mac Mini Offering

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post #35

I have seen mixed reviews about Hetzner online. Does anyone have any enlightening anecdotal evidence in favor or against the company?

I moved personal projects to Hetzner from Linode several years ago, due to significantly better pricing for the RAM I needed, and I haven't had any problems. I am using a few of their "cloud" shared servers (https://www.hetzner.com/cloud) and backups, can't speak to other services. I'm not doing anything CPU or IO intensive, though.

Re: Hetzner Apple Mac Mini Offering

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post #37
post #35

I have seen mixed reviews about Hetzner online. Does anyone have any enlightening anecdotal evidence in favor or against the company?

They are truly great for thrifty do-it-yourself hosting. Don't expect customer support or discounts or anything, but their prices are impossible to beat, and everything works as advertised. The big gotcha is that their only points of presence are in Germany and Finland. My only gripe would be that running your business on Hetzner can be a little bit scary at times since they have so much unattended automation in plac…

>>>Don't expect customer support

To be fair, you can also book a managed server with them.

For their hosted hardware offering, HDD/SSD swaps (or even "we replace everything about your server because it produces random faults except your HDDS") are within reasonable timeframes (i.e. usually within an hour).

They, however, will not diagnose this for you - that part is on you.

Re: Hetzner Apple Mac Mini Offering

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post #38

I just want a cheap way to live debug sites in Safari / Safari Mobile without being forced to purchase Apple hardware. Only reasonable option I've come across so far is buying used hardware. VM under Win10/AMD seems like a PITA.

Why not Browserstack?

Debugging iOS-Safari issues on a web page requires:

1) Access to a Desktop Mac and a Desktop Safari.

2) An iOS device.

The Safari debugger recognizes a plugged-in iOS device and then allows to debug the iOS safari remotely. That's the only reliable way to find iOS specific JS or CSS issues. Browserstack alone does not help, unfortunately AFAIR.

Re: Hetzner Apple Mac Mini Offering

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post #38

I just want a cheap way to live debug sites in Safari / Safari Mobile without being forced to purchase Apple hardware. Only reasonable option I've come across so far is buying used hardware. VM under Win10/AMD seems like a PITA.

Used totally makes sense. I picked up a Mac Mini with a 27" monitor for $500.

It's a shame that web developers have to spend $500 to buy a bespoke web-browsing machine just to make their sites work better with Apple hardware. If Apple wanted people to treat their browser seriously, they should have simulators and developer tooling to spare.

Re: Hetzner Apple Mac Mini Offering

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I have seen mixed reviews about Hetzner online. Does anyone have any enlightening anecdotal evidence in favor or against the company?

Have been using them for years, never had an issue.

I have heard that they disconnect you for a couple of hours if youre being heavily DDOSSed tho.

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