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Their virtual servers are really very cheap. How do they compare with AWS/Vultr/Digital Ocean? Do they have an API for automation and is it reliable?

by osrec 8y ago

wut42 8y ago
Absolutely! It's based on Xeon Gold and NVMe disks. Works pretty well. I'm running there CI and a couple of stuff since cloud was announced -- had a bit on downtime on a single VM, some network issues, otherwise: all good. They have an API.
manveru 8y ago
They have a really good and simple API for the Cloud hosting at https://docs.hetzner.cloud/ https://docs.hetzner.cloud/ and there's also https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/hcloud/index.html https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/hcloud/index.html I've been using this to setup some servers with little effort. For dedicated hosting there is https://robot.your-server.de/doc/webservice/en.html https://robot.your-server.de/doc/webservice/en.html I just wish they had NixOS images so I'd save a few minutes of initial deploy time.
petercooper 8y ago
I "downgraded" from a physical server to a VPS with them when Cloud launched and have saved a ton of money and the performance isn't miles off. Great success so far. Network is solid within Europe though have noticed the occasional bit of weird routing to the US.
- osrec 8y ago
  Could you elaborate on the weird routing in the US please? I ask because my app has a bunch of US users.
  - petercooper 8y ago
    I'm not a qualified networking engineer, but we had some US users report outages which we investigated from US-based servers and noticed the normal routing was screwy (in the sense that the normal direct routes weren't being taken so latency was high). These incidents lasted under ten minutes and I wrote them off as being peering related incidents as they had no effect on European traffic. I accept minor things like this as part of the price for hosting in Europe, and have certainly experienced the same issues going the other direction (i.e. me reaching US-based services) more often.

Their virtual servers are really very cheap. How do they compare with AWS/Vultr/Digital Ocean? Do they have an API for automation and is it reliable?

by osrec 8y ago

Their virtual servers are really very cheap. How do they compare with AWS/Vultr/Digital Ocean? Do they have an API for automation and is it reliable?

wut42 8y ago

Absolutely! It's based on Xeon Gold and NVMe disks. Works pretty well. I'm running there CI and a couple of stuff since cloud was announced -- had a bit on downtime on a single VM, some network issues, otherwise: all good. They have an API.

manveru 8y ago

They have a really good and simple API for the Cloud hosting at https://docs.hetzner.cloud/ https://docs.hetzner.cloud/ and there's also https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/hcloud/index.html https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/hcloud/index.html I've been using this to setup some servers with little effort. For dedicated hosting there is https://robot.your-server.de/doc/webservice/en.html https://robot.your-server.de/doc/webservice/en.html I just wish they had NixOS images so I'd save a few minutes of initial deploy time.

petercooper 8y ago

I "downgraded" from a physical server to a VPS with them when Cloud launched and have saved a ton of money and the performance isn't miles off. Great success so far. Network is solid within Europe though have noticed the occasional bit of weird routing to the US.

osrec 8y ago
Could you elaborate on the weird routing in the US please? I ask because my app has a bunch of US users.
- petercooper 8y ago
  I'm not a qualified networking engineer, but we had some US users report outages which we investigated from US-based servers and noticed the normal routing was screwy (in the sense that the normal direct routes weren't being taken so latency was high). These incidents lasted under ten minutes and I wrote them off as being peering related incidents as they had no effect on European traffic. I accept minor things like this as part of the price for hosting in Europe, and have certainly experienced the same issues going the other direction (i.e. me reaching US-based services) more often.