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+1 for Hetzner, they have an amazing suite of services for excellent prices. Hetzner's robot marketplace[0] changed my (operations) life. [0]: https://robot.y

+1 for Hetzner, they have an amazing suite of services for excellent prices. Hetzner's robot marketplace[0] changed my (operations) life. [0]: https://robot.your-server.de/order/market https://robot.your-server.de/order/market

apkallum 8y ago
How did they do so?
- hardwaresofton 8y ago
  tl;dr - Shifted my knowledge of the hosting market by exposing me to cheap dedicated servers I had previously thought that dedicated servers were doomed to be too expensive/heavy weight for me. I also felt like most VPS providers charged too much (especially true in the case of AWS -- $10/mo for a t2.micro is ridiculous). I first found INIZ (http://iniz.com/ http://iniz.com/) and was super happy with them, then someone introduced me to Hetzner Robot Marketplace and I was blown away by the affordable prices (+/- setup fee) and have had one ever since. Hetzner also has a cloud offering that is also pretty great -- slight limits on operating system choice and some other features and you can have very competitively priced machines in a more cloud-friendly fire-up-and-go format. I wrote about the revelation here (including link to HN thread where it happened): https://vadosware.io/post/fresh-dedicated-server-to-single-node-kubernetes-cluster-on-coreos/#why-change-my-infrastructure-at-all https://vadosware.io/post/fresh-dedicated-server-to-single-n... Now I have a ~6 Core (12 vCore/hyper-thread) 24GB RAM monster that I can run experiments with for a decent monthly price. If you go to other providers like Packet, OVH or Amazon, you're going to see way higher prices -- I'm don't have too many requirements so Hetzner worked for me.
smcleod 8y ago
Be very careful with those - they do not use ECC memory and thus suffer from the many potential security attacks and your software needs to handle the odd memory error.
- krn 8y ago
  Many larger (64 GB RAM and more) servers from Hetzner Robot in fact do have ECC memory.
- Zekio 8y ago
  so exactly like your average desktop? whats the problem it isn't like you share the hardware with others
- josteink 8y ago
  > Be very careful with those - they do not use ECC memory and thus suffer from the many potential security attacks ECC hyperbole much? When you've decided to put your personal data somewhere in a cloud on the other side of the internet, this kind of stuff should probably be absolutely on the bottom of the list of things you need to worry about.
- anc84 8y ago
  Not true at all, you can simply filter for "ECC" and get offers starting at 26€ for a 6TB of storage, 16GB ECC RAM.

apkallum 8y ago

How did they do so?

hardwaresofton 8y ago
tl;dr - Shifted my knowledge of the hosting market by exposing me to cheap dedicated servers I had previously thought that dedicated servers were doomed to be too expensive/heavy weight for me. I also felt like most VPS providers charged too much (especially true in the case of AWS -- $10/mo for a t2.micro is ridiculous). I first found INIZ (http://iniz.com/ http://iniz.com/) and was super happy with them, then someone introduced me to Hetzner Robot Marketplace and I was blown away by the affordable prices (+/- setup fee) and have had one ever since. Hetzner also has a cloud offering that is also pretty great -- slight limits on operating system choice and some other features and you can have very competitively priced machines in a more cloud-friendly fire-up-and-go format. I wrote about the revelation here (including link to HN thread where it happened): https://vadosware.io/post/fresh-dedicated-server-to-single-node-kubernetes-cluster-on-coreos/#why-change-my-infrastructure-at-all https://vadosware.io/post/fresh-dedicated-server-to-single-n... Now I have a ~6 Core (12 vCore/hyper-thread) 24GB RAM monster that I can run experiments with for a decent monthly price. If you go to other providers like Packet, OVH or Amazon, you're going to see way higher prices -- I'm don't have too many requirements so Hetzner worked for me.

smcleod 8y ago

Be very careful with those - they do not use ECC memory and thus suffer from the many potential security attacks and your software needs to handle the odd memory error.

krn 8y ago
Many larger (64 GB RAM and more) servers from Hetzner Robot in fact do have ECC memory.
Zekio 8y ago
so exactly like your average desktop? whats the problem it isn't like you share the hardware with others
josteink 8y ago
> Be very careful with those - they do not use ECC memory and thus suffer from the many potential security attacks ECC hyperbole much? When you've decided to put your personal data somewhere in a cloud on the other side of the internet, this kind of stuff should probably be absolutely on the bottom of the list of things you need to worry about.
anc84 8y ago
Not true at all, you can simply filter for "ECC" and get offers starting at 26€ for a 6TB of storage, 16GB ECC RAM.