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I’ve heard mention of Hetzner no less than a dozen times in the last couple days. What’s their deal? I’m not quite sure I grok this server auction thing they do

• hippich 9y ago
  I am not talking about auction thing here, just their regular dedicated servers offerings. They are bare metal and it is up to you to set it up, but savings are in the 5x - 10x range if you can avoid waste by underutilizing hardware (i.e. cases where you have to scale daily 1 to 100 instances might not be financially advantageous)
• CSDude 9y ago
  If all you need is Virtual Machines or dedicated machines, you are good to host your databases, services etc. using AWS is very expensive. You could literally buy from 3-4 different vendors to maintain availability in disaster case and still be cheaper. Hetzner is one of the most affordable providers and both dedicadted and cloud offerings are fast enough.
• foepys 9y ago
  Hetzner got in the news recently because they now offer a "cloud" product for VPS. Not in the sense like AWS where you can shut down instances and pay less but in the sense that you can buy, provision, and delete VPS via an API and pay per hour. They are also dirt cheap and offer 20 TB egress traffic with even their cheapest VPS. How they do it? I don't know. They are using Xeon processors and not i7 like some others.
• zaarn 9y ago
  They offer bare metal outside the auction, which I recommend unless you look for the absolute cheapest. The Server Auction is basically servers they previously used and were freed up (because a customer didn't need it anymore, for example). It's somewhat similar to what OVH is doing with KimSufi or SYS.