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"We at Hetzner Online do not support such policies and declare our support for full net neutrality." Bullshit. In the same breath they offer something that is
by kintamanimatt 11y ago
"We at Hetzner Online do not support such policies and declare our support for full net neutrality."
Bullshit. In the same breath they offer something that is entirely antithetical to their stated ethos, no matter how they spin it.
This page demonstrates what they say and what they do are two different things. I interpret this as they're making a goldbrick statement of support in favor of net neutrality with the hope that they won't face a backlash.
I will never touch Hetzner so long as they act against net neutrality.
- 0x006A 11y agoThey are transparent about DTAG not participating in Tire 1 peering for free. They offer a way to pay for this on a per server basis if you don't want to participate in this standoff. I much prefer this to Hetzner silently paying DTAG and increasing the hosting costs for everyone.
- brainpeel 11y agoWhen Hetzner say "some Germany ISPs" they actually mean Deutsche Telekom – Germany's largest ISP with almost 50% market share and also the only Tier 1 network. Deutsche Telekom has been squeezing everyone for transit bandwidth. They're also the only network and ISP to NOT peer with DE-CIX. (they only added their first 10Gbps uplink just a few months ago) I've even seen Akamai bottleneck for weeks on end until they agreed to pay for more 10Gbps ports to DTAG. What Hetzner Online is offering is merely an effective solution to alleviating a real problem. Supporting net neutrality won't fix your paying users video streaming QoS issues. As frustrating as it is as a matter of principle, many companies will want to utilize an offering like Hetzner's.