I don't understand the excitement. How are they any different than all the reputable hosting services out there?
Hetzner cloud servers are now available in Ashburn USA
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Re: Hetzner cloud servers are now available in Ashburn USA
#52I don't understand the excitement. How are they any different than all the reputable hosting services out there?
Pricing. Where else can you get a i7-6700 with 64GB RAM, 2x512 GB NVMe SSDs for just 40 euro per month?
I have been using Hetzner for business purposes for 8 years or so. Never had a problem with them, and the bang for buck is high and above anyone else in the industry.
But please feel free to prove me wrong. :)
Re: Hetzner cloud servers are now available in Ashburn USA
#53Hetzner deleted all of my vms after getting erroneously flagged by their abuse department due to my account details. (nothing to do with my machines) They sent me an email saying my account was paused and to contact them to resolve it, which I did within half an hour. My account was reinstated minus all of my environment.. just a blank account. They deleted everything and told me they had no way to restore it. Beware…
>>Beware hosting anything with them unless you keep backups with another provider.
That should be true of any provider / data.. 3 is 1, 2 is none, and 1 is crazy...
If you are not following 3-2-1 backup you are asking for trouble I dont care what provider or service you are using
Re: Hetzner cloud servers are now available in Ashburn USA
#54hetzner locked my account because my manager put it in my name, and then much later, stopped paying it. OK, but they seem to treat me as a scammer since I am in the USA.
> hetzner locked my account because my manager put it in my name, and then much later, stopped paying it.
It's really not a company's fault for stopping to provide a service when it's not paid for.
Re: Hetzner cloud servers are now available in Ashburn USA
#55Instances include 20TB of traffic, which is better than paying thousands to AWS for it.
It really is so much cheaper. After dropping S3/RDS/ECS for OVH bare metal running Proxmox, my costs decreased significantly. I still use Route 53 and back up to S3, though.
Please don't compare Hetzner to the abomination that is OVH. OVH is more or less ok for non-critical fun projects, but Hetzner is often cheaper and always more reliable.
Hetzner used to be only significantly better than OVH. Now they are in a different league.
Re: Hetzner cloud servers are now available in Ashburn USA
#56hetzner locked my account because my manager put it in my name, and then much later, stopped paying it. OK, but they seem to treat me as a scammer since I am in the USA.
> hetzner locked my account because my manager put it in my name, and then much later, stopped paying it. It's really not a company's fault for stopping to provide a service when it's not paid for.
right - it is the reconciliation and followup that is the issue for me
Re: Hetzner cloud servers are now available in Ashburn USA
#57Cool video about Herzner datacenters. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eo8nz_niiM
The retro midi-tower server farm in DC1 wasn't exactly what I expected.
Me neither but it makes sense. As long as a customer is willing to pay more than electricity+bandwidth cost, why should they throw them out? In their server auction you often find old servers at price points that are really attractive. For a database server, a 10yr old CPU with an old SSD and 250GB memory can be faster than a brand new server with a fraction of the memory. And they offer the former one for ~50€ in their server auction (at least they did yesterday).
I'm really surprised though how many servers survive for that long. But they probably mix-and-match components whenever one part of a server fails.
Re: Hetzner cloud servers are now available in Ashburn USA
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
Any details on what the alleged abuse was?
I used a shortened version of my last name for my account details. It's difficult to pronounce, so I usually go by my preferred name. (They have my full name from my e-mail and credit card) I'm most upset that there was no opportunity to resolve this minor confusion amicably, and what really got me the most is that there was no attempt at an apology, considering the e-mail I got clearly stated that service would resu…
> I used a shortened version of my last name for my account details.
So not Hetzner's fault, then.
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
> hetzner locked my account because my manager put it in my name, and then much later, stopped paying it. It's really not a company's fault for stopping to provide a service when it's not paid for.
right - it is the reconciliation and followup that is the issue for me
If the account is in your name you're responsible for payment. But you can probably sue your manager for doing that. I don't see Hetzner's fault, they'll have to assume that you opened the account if it's in your name and was likely used by you.
Re: Hetzner cloud servers are now available in Ashburn USA
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
It really is so much cheaper. After dropping S3/RDS/ECS for OVH bare metal running Proxmox, my costs decreased significantly. I still use Route 53 and back up to S3, though.
Please don't compare Hetzner to the abomination that is OVH. OVH is more or less ok for non-critical fun projects, but Hetzner is often cheaper and always more reliable. Hetzner used to be only significantly better than OVH. Now they are in a different league.
For me it's the other way around in EU at least. OVH's network is light years ahead of Hetnzer's.