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Hetzner is easily 30% off OVH and half the price of other hosting providers (VPS and bare metal). So nothing surprising here. They have a cheap cost base (data
by dx034 9y ago
Hetzner is easily 30% off OVH and half the price of other hosting providers (VPS and bare metal). So nothing surprising here. They have a cheap cost base (data centres in rural areas and wholesale electricity prices aren't that high in Germany) which probably explains most of that.
OVH had basically the same price but their heavy investments in new DCs have made them more expensive. Since Hetzner doesn't invest a lot (at least in new buildings) they don't need to raise prices for that.
- latch 9y agoWorth mentioning SoYouStart, OVH's low-end brand. I believe the way it works is that OVH is current-gen hardware, and SoYouStart is the hand-me-downs (which I think is a great model)
- zerostar07 9y agohetzner has a similar 'serverbidding' for older servers which can be quite a bargain, depending on the day https://www.hetzner.com/sb https://www.hetzner.com/sb . i know that SYS is good as well
- dx034 9y agoWhat really bothers me with SYS is the lack of ECC ram. Very few servers have it (and sometimes without support by the CPU). Wouldn't set up anything processing data without ECC.
- melkhior 9y agoAlso worth mentioning that SoYouStart servers have slower network speeds (250Mbps compared to OVH's 500Mbps-1Gbps)
- icebraining 9y agoThat's their mid-level brand. The low-end is Kimsufi :)
- darekkay 9y ago→ Hetzner: CX21, 2 cores, 4GB RAM - 5.83€ → OVH VPS Cloud 2, 2 cores 4GB RAM: 23.79€ → OVH VPS SSD 2, 1 core, 4GB RAM: 9.51€ → OVH VPS SSD 3, 2 cores, 8GB RAM: 17.84€ For me, OVH's unlimited traffic does not explain the price difference. I will highly consider switching to Hetzner. EDIT: correct meaning
- dx034 9y agoEDIT: Misunderstood OP's comment.
- matt4077 9y agoI think this is an example of a rather common mistake ESL speakers make regarding the meaning of "hardly".
- darekkay 9y agoYes, I meant "highly". Thanks :)
- always_good 9y agoGood catch. Another universal ESL mistake is to use "funny" when one means "fun." Meanwhile, in Spanish I would mix up cebolla vs cepillo vs cabello vs caballo. Approaching a woman in a bar: "I like your onion."