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I'm always hearing good things about Hetzner and especially the value on their auction servers. Tried buying one on the auction once, went through a whole riga
by samfriedman 8y ago
I'm always hearing good things about Hetzner and especially the value on their auction servers.
Tried buying one on the auction once, went through a whole rigamarole to confirm my identity, send them ID pics, etc. In the end they decided to cancel the order due to "suspicious activity". I was baffled by that as we hadn't had any conversation besides sending them the order info & credentials. I assumed it was a weird false positive... wonder if I should try again sometime.
- vidarh 8y agoBasically you only need to go through their ID hassle once when you submit the first order on an account, at least that's been my experience. After that it's generally entirely painless to order further servers.
- interfixus 8y agoYeah, that's what I thought. Went through the passport routine, got approved, started mucking about. At one point, as part of experimenting, I deleted a VPS which happened to be the last one remaining. And bang! Account closed for lack of active instances. So I went elsewhere, and have been the ever since. Elsewhere highly recommended, by the way: https://lunanode.com/ https://lunanode.com/
- nielsole 8y agoThey deactivate accounts after a couple of months without activity but can be easily reactivated (I went through this earlier this year after having been inactive for multiple years)
- m0nty 8y agoI don't remember providing them with ID but I've been a customer for a long time, maybe it's a recent requirement. It's worth opening a dialog with them if you're having issues - you'll be conversing with a real person and they can probably be persuaded.
- perlpimp 8y agoabout 5 years ago had to give them a scan of my passport
- hoffs 8y agoA couple of months ago I purchased a VPS from them. They also required ID (passport) to verify identity, but what was surprising that they suggested using their gpg keys to encrypt the image before sending.
- nielsole 8y agoTheir argument is, that requiring an ID has solved most of the fraud problems.
- BslSJDIz1gqWxXq 8y agoThey lost my business when they required a passport. Like hell I'm showing you that. If they wanna see my face they can look up my name on social media.
- zaarn 8y agoThey don't want to see your face they want to see official papers proving you to be a unique person.
- askmike 8y agoI don't see any advantage over using SSL (especially if they serve the public key on the same website)
- caymanjim 8y agoIs this ID verification some European/German regulation?
- vertex-four 8y agoNo.
- samfriedman 8y agoI assumed it was a security measure to prevent spammers, botnetters, etc. from buying server time via fraudulent means.
- Hamuko 8y agoWeird. I got a server some months ago and I didn't do anything to confirm my identity. Maybe it was because I was getting a cheapo bidding server, which is only 25 euros a month.
- mladen5 8y agoThey requested me in an email to confirm my identity, i sent them requested IDs and never heard back from them.