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I love Hetzner dedicated server offerings since the price can't be beat, but they have mediocre peering/connection speeds. Granted I'm in Japan, but I get like

I love Hetzner dedicated server offerings since the price can't be beat, but they have mediocre peering/connection speeds. Granted I'm in Japan, but I get like 1/12th the speed I do from an Scaleway dedi in France.

welterde 6y ago
Might be worth pestering their support about it. There are lot of knobs the networking team can fiddle with to improve things. For the traffic flowing from Hetzner to your ISP it's under the control of Hetzner which upstream provider they choose - and the choice might be sub-optimal right now. If the bottleneck is in the other direction you have to pester your own ISP about it.
zinekeller 6y ago
Trying to stab here since the only clue I have is "from Japan" but maybe the connection is routed in Russia instead of routing via Asia/ME or US/CA/UK (more likely if the connection is from KDDI/au than NTT) and your Hetzner instance is in Finland. There are relatively few links from Japan to Russia (note that they are carrier links so they are unhampered by censoring) so connections are impacted that way. Maybe run a traceroute to check it, and then ask Hetzner and your ISP (be patient on your ISP, but sometimes you tend to be lucky) to fix this issue. Unfortunately short of running a VPN to a different uplink (Scaleway! OVH! The horror!) or switching to a different ISP with different uplink, there's nothing you can do about this.
ksec 6y ago
I thought it goes without saying but let me expand on my post. Cheap / Affordable, Semi / Fully Managed, High Spec ( CPU / Memory ), Connection Speed ( Latency and Bandwidth ), Data Allowance ( Actual Data you could use for your port ), Server / DC reliability, Support, Side Features ( Managed DB, DDoS, Backup Storage, CDN etc.. ), etc Pick a few, but no host in the world is going to offer all of them. Generally speaking good Connection / route around the world are exceptionally expensive. So if that was a consideration in the first place ( Which the OP never mentioned and I assume it is not important ) you should not be looking for anything that looks "cheap". Few years ago I thought OVH could have a shot at it, but it becomes increasingly clear they dont have much of that ambition or direction. Hetzner is even more conservatives and only wants to operate in Europe.
radu_floricica 6y ago
Fair point, that's true. I'm in Romania, and even here I have occasional issues. Might even become reason to switch, if they keep recurring (haven't for a while).

welterde 6y ago

Might be worth pestering their support about it. There are lot of knobs the networking team can fiddle with to improve things. For the traffic flowing from Hetzner to your ISP it's under the control of Hetzner which upstream provider they choose - and the choice might be sub-optimal right now. If the bottleneck is in the other direction you have to pester your own ISP about it.

zinekeller 6y ago

Trying to stab here since the only clue I have is "from Japan" but maybe the connection is routed in Russia instead of routing via Asia/ME or US/CA/UK (more likely if the connection is from KDDI/au than NTT) and your Hetzner instance is in Finland. There are relatively few links from Japan to Russia (note that they are carrier links so they are unhampered by censoring) so connections are impacted that way. Maybe run a traceroute to check it, and then ask Hetzner and your ISP (be patient on your ISP, but sometimes you tend to be lucky) to fix this issue. Unfortunately short of running a VPN to a different uplink (Scaleway! OVH! The horror!) or switching to a different ISP with different uplink, there's nothing you can do about this.

ksec 6y ago

I thought it goes without saying but let me expand on my post. Cheap / Affordable, Semi / Fully Managed, High Spec ( CPU / Memory ), Connection Speed ( Latency and Bandwidth ), Data Allowance ( Actual Data you could use for your port ), Server / DC reliability, Support, Side Features ( Managed DB, DDoS, Backup Storage, CDN etc.. ), etc Pick a few, but no host in the world is going to offer all of them. Generally speaking good Connection / route around the world are exceptionally expensive. So if that was a consideration in the first place ( Which the OP never mentioned and I assume it is not important ) you should not be looking for anything that looks "cheap". Few years ago I thought OVH could have a shot at it, but it becomes increasingly clear they dont have much of that ambition or direction. Hetzner is even more conservatives and only wants to operate in Europe.

radu_floricica 6y ago

Fair point, that's true. I'm in Romania, and even here I have occasional issues. Might even become reason to switch, if they keep recurring (haven't for a while).