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The hardware isn't identical. Hetzner is known for having more drive failures than is typical as a result of replacing failing drives with "refurbished" ones.

• toomuchtodo 8y ago
  Back your data with Backblaze.
  • eropple 8y ago
    TBH, that's a really lousy alternative. :/ EBS is so, so useful and reduces headaches when running a system by an amount that it's almost by itself worth using AWS (or equivalent).
    • toomuchtodo 8y ago
      Depends on your use case, but I agree Hetzner needs EBS/iSCSI equivalent storage. I'm allergic to marrying yourself to AWS (or any ecosystem for that matter).
      • dylz 8y ago
        I have several hetzner snapshot-enabled internal network samba mounts (they offer this as a separate service)
      • eropple 8y ago
        Sure - you do get basically the same thing with Azure or GCP, though. (DigitalOcean...tries.)
  • scarface74 8y ago
    And then you have only one data center. It’s not just about your data. You need to have your entire stack in a different region.
• late2part 8y ago
  Please provide evidence that Hetzner has more drive failures than AWS?
• zaarn 8y ago
  You can ask for a fresh drive, IIRC that will cost you about 10€ or so for the replacement in that case. Though I've largely gotten fresh drives from Hetzner so far, only one that had been worn in a bit.