I've had a the smallest cloud instance for a few years now, it is in fact really good and fast. 1vcpu with 2GB ram is plenty for a full stack web application + a database. IO is also very good with stable ~8000 iops write performance for 4k sync.<p>Compared to Azure VM instances, Hetzner offers like 100x more performance for each $ spent.
I don't know how to feel about this. One the one hand this is good for sites that needs to be more global. But I mainly build stuff for Europe and I don't want anything to do with USA when storing personal data. I hope they keep the seperation between Europe and US clear.
Any info on what DC they use? So far they've run everything themselves which made them slower to expand but was much cheaper to run. If they now use other DC providers it would explain why they only offer the higher margin cloud servers there. But would be curious if anyone knows where the data center is physically located. With their other ones they're also quite open about it so I was surprised they didn't mention it here.<p>EDIT: They do mention somewhere on their side that it's a third party DC. So probably no option to offer dedicated servers there (at least not at the same price as in their other locations). Would still be curious which one it is.
I've been working on bringing the managed services (which is still somewhat lacking though Hetzner has LoadBalancers) now to places like Hetzner and OVH. Right now I'm planning on starting with Redis/Memcached and S3.<p>If this seems like something you'd be interested in I'd love to hear from you (email in bio). If you don't have the time to write an email but maybe take a most-questions optional survey:<p><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfyhBThpC2mYubNPQaKRDJhxgVtTphjl4WSSX5vMjYOMrAWtg/viewform?usp=sf_link" rel="nofollow">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfyhBThpC2mYubNPQaK...</a><p>I plan on getting a small landing page up to collect people who want to be first to try it out tonight/tomorrow at the latest.<p>I'm most excited about Hetzner going US because I think they're going to really shake up the stagnant (high) prices for dedicated compute in the US.
Not sure about their cloud services, but their dedicated servers offering is unmatched anywhere. Unfortunately they only have DCs in Finland and Germany, would love to see it expanded. Anyone here sitting on any information if they are planning to extend their locations?
Hetzner has a seriously flawed fraud detection system. There are multiple documented review complaints. Seriously, try opening an account from a third world / low income country (non EU/US/UK/CA/AU/NZ), your order will be flagged immediately. If they don't want orders from those countries, they should explicitly say so.
For me, Hetzner, Starlink, and Tailscale are 2014-era startups: stellar products that turn you into a zealous militant for the companies. This is a very exciting development. I am very much looking forward to their dedicated offering extending to the US.
"The host systems for our Cloud instances all have a redundant 10 Gbits connection. This connection is shared by all instances on the host. We do not offer bandwidth guarantees for our Cloud servers, but you can expect about 300-500 Mbits."<p>This sounds pretty underwhelming and probably what's preventing me from migrating infra to Ashburn. Other than that, looks pretty great bang for buck.
I like that tweet:<p>>The CLOUD Act applies to all electronic communication service or remote computing service providers that operate in the U.S, whether those providers are established in the United States or another country.<p>Bravo Hetzner, no chance for servers with private data (for example European customers) on it anymore, Exoscale it will be then in the future.
Dang, please can we merge this and <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29093082" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29093082</a> ?
As an American who'd only be using VPSes like this for personal projects, the only thing holding me back from trying Hetzner before this was that they had no US servers.
Cloud product site has been updated: <a href="https://www.hetzner.com/cloud" rel="nofollow">https://www.hetzner.com/cloud</a>
It's great so see more investment by European infrastructure providers like Hetzner, Scaleway and more recently Infomaniak.<p>Even though they're years behind in terms of features, their base offerings have improved a lot over time and they can at least compete on cost.
Naive question: what’s the difference between this and ec2? (I am already running my personal mail and website on an ec2 instance; is there any good reason to switch?)
Anyone know how I can invest/get exposure to hetzner as a business? Doesn't seem to be a public company.<p>I can honestly see these guys becoming a HUGE cloud provider.
I like hetzner but they do not support dnssec yet.<p><a href="https://docs.hetzner.com/dns-console/dns/general/dnssec/" rel="nofollow">https://docs.hetzner.com/dns-console/dns/general/dnssec/</a>
Is there a way to see equivalent prices in USD? Also would my credit card be charged in Euro and then the card company will apply some arbitrary conversion rate ?
More Cloud providers is a good thing. But I hope more providers start following the method of an implementation of OpenStack that a customer can control. OpenStack has an API and tools which makes it much easier for a customer to start using cloud services in a standard way. Might not be good for "vendor lock-in", but it does let me ramp up on technology quicker. I've used OpenStack in a couple cloud providers so far and I really enjoyed it. (I've also administrated an OpenStack bare metal cluster, so I don't envy whoever is managing it at the cloud provider....)