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Can you point to some European hosting services that have an upfront cost regardless of usage?

• iforgotpassword 6y ago
  hetzner.de
  • afidrya 6y ago
    I don't recommend them. We used to host an online text game there (MUD) and when one of the players decided to DDOS it, Hetzner just pulled the plug. I moved to soyoustart.com (it's OVH brand) - in following month they sent a couple emails about the server being attacked and that they're trying to mitigate the attack, but game kept working.
    • iforgotpassword 6y ago
      Yes they are quick to just drop all traffic to hosts being attacked, that should be noted. Ovh is putting in a little more effort but will also nullroute your IP if it's getting too bad. Generally the hetzner network seemed more stable and less congested to me though.
• jen20 6y ago
  Yes: OVH [1]. They sell by bandwidth rather than by data transfer, which is by far the biggest variable in cloud usage. [1]: https://www.ovh.com/world/dedicated-servers/rise/rise-1/ https://www.ovh.com/world/dedicated-servers/rise/rise-1/
• willvarfar 6y ago
  I use the small glesys.com and pay for the box with a capped bandwidth. If my blog or apps are slashdotted (or HNed or whatever we should call it nowadays) they just load slower, degrading gracefully, and never stop or return an error.
  • carlhjerpe 6y ago
    They used to have transfer based pricing but then moved to bandwidth based, reps said to simplify billing. Their new KVM service gives you 1g burst and 100mbps average by default. https://glesys.com/vps/pricing https://glesys.com/vps/pricing is very straightforward. At my previous employer we migrated to them and were very happy with the VMware infra they provided. Since It's a Swedish company one can look into their economy to see that they're not going anywhere. https://www.allabolag.se/5566479241/glesys-ab https://www.allabolag.se/5566479241/glesys-ab