Is "hoster" a valid word? I do not see it listed in dictionary.com. If you hosted a party, would you be a "party host" or a "party hoster"?
It is in Germany (but you are right, it’s incorrect if used in English).
European server provider Hetzner now offers a 64GB RAM box for 109€/mon
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#82Are there legal issues to think about when storing data on German servers?
They have strict laws for copyright infringement from what I hear... on the other hand, the FBI can't just pull out your servers :-)...
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#83If it is possible to run a hosting service as cheap as this, why is there none like it in the US? I thought the labour, tax and VAT costs in Germany should make it less competitive but this is just way cheaper than anything you can find in the US. Does anyone know of any similar offerings in the States?
Yes, 1and1 - they offer pretty much everything Hetzner has and more (250 GB free backup, unlimited 100 Mbps traffic, which is about 30 TB per month if I'm not mistaken, and fully automated OS recovery and reinstallation, as well as serial console, which is basically KVM-over-IP.
Their tech support is pathetic though, and the worst thing is that it takes them quite a while if any hardware fails - you could be out for days, with no possibility to even pay a premium fee for emergency repair... But of 5 servers I've had with them, only 1 (the cheapest) had issues (hanged on reboot)...
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#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
I did a light benchmark of their 512MB VPS[1] which is insanely cheap. The only things that change when moving to the 2GB VPS is RAM, hard drive space and total data transfer. The CPU remains a single core and the same speed according to [2]. It's possible there's less contention but you'd need to find a benchmark for the 2GB VPS to know for sure. If you're after any specific benchmarks give me a yell and I'll see if…
"Sent passport scan to Hetzner" - Really?
I had to to the same for Linode (although I'm from an untrustworthy country :).
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#85Are there legal issues to think about when storing data on German servers?
Yes. For us Europeans, it's much safer since there's no export of data outside the EU :)
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#86I have a question. Do they always ask for passport scan and credit card photograph, or I fall under some special category which makes me suspicious?
Going by the rave reviews, I ordered the 512 MB vps to evaluate, and was greeted by an email asking for my passport and credit card photograph. I don't feel like doing business with them anymore.
I am a bit uncomfortable about sharing my credit card info. But since I already have shared my card number, I figure I can attach the card photo.
And even if I comply with the ridiculous request of providing a photograph of my credit card, most of the times I use a virtual credit card. My bank lets me creates virtual credit cards and link with my card/account. The card doesn't exist physically and it lets me reset the transaction limit. I reset the transaction limit before making a transaction ensuring I can't be overcharged. They would turn me down because I am concerned about my financial transactions?
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#87After over a year of hosting in the cloud (amazon aws) and spending alot of money in the process we also made the switch to hetzner recently...
The cloud and its benefits is nice and good, but the computing power you get for 100 bucks from companies like hetzner is just incredible.. Of course there are higher costs of setting everything up, but on AWS we had todo most of the complicated stuff on our own anyway..
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#88Purchased an EX 4S (32gb ram non-ecc) the other day from Hetzner, been running extremely smooth. They got it rigged up in about 2-4 hours. Installed Xen to run my own little VPS farm and it's dirt cheap compared to all the VPS providers out there, and more performant as well since you actually own the underlying hardware. Just noticed they also added "1 Gigabit-Port" under "Additional Options" at only 39 EUR, along w…
> Of course it has it's downsides compared to S3 but when you compare pricing in "TB" to S3, you'll see how redonk the S3 pricing is.
Remember, comparing "x TB of storage" to S3 is silly. S3 is designed to replicate your file to multiple datacenters (their site promises ELEVEN nines of durability!), provides things like a BitTorrent tracker for your files, etc.
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#89I have a question. Do they always ask for passport scan and credit card photograph, or I fall under some special category which makes me suspicious? Going by the rave reviews, I ordered the 512 MB vps to evaluate, and was greeted by an email asking for my passport and credit card photograph. I don't feel like doing business with them anymore. I am a bit uncomfortable about sharing my credit card info. But since I alr…
It's normal. Myself and another person I know had to do it too.
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#90I've never seen anyone running a reverse auction to rent their old hardware out before:
https://robot.your-server.de/order/market
I guess if they're not short of space for hardware & cooling then this is a profitable way to put old hardware to use until the demand falls below the running costs. I wonder what the reliability is like?