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A dedicated server at hetzner is about 30-35 dollars / month. That will get you a ryzen5/64 gigs/512 RAID-1 NVME on linux. Heroku at that spec really starts to

A dedicated server at hetzner is about 30-35 dollars / month. That will get you a ryzen5/64 gigs/512 RAID-1 NVME on linux. Heroku at that spec really starts to hit the wallet. More than engouh for a lot of applications. Hell, I ran a E-commerce company with 20MM USD/year in sales on a dedicated server from 2005-2013. Most things are plain vanilla and rock stable. I can go from new server to running my first services is less than an hour. Ansible or cloud-init go a long way to turning my pets into cattle, so to speak. I spend nearly no time "managing it" -- I have grafana dashboards and Hetzner monitoring the critical things. Happy to share more.

dinkleberg 6y ago
Are you based in the US? I see Hetzner mentioned often due to their great value, but given their EU location I’d imagine the latency isn’t ideal. I’m curious what your experience is. When I’m looking for a cheap dedi box I use OVH or one of their related companies since they have Canada DCs which are closer. Obviously if you are in the EU, Hetzner and scaleway are a great option.
- simplecto 6y ago
  >75% of my visitors and users are in the US. The latency is simply not an issue. And surprisingly many in Malaysia. I run my blog and some small SaaS utils. I've never had a complaint ever about speed, responsiveness, or latency. I thought it was because I eschewed bloated front-end frameworks. ;-)
- andrewzah 6y ago
  I'm from the US and my personal website has been hosted through hetzner for 3+ years. From the US, I typically got around 120-130ms ping before I put it behind cloudflare. It wasn't really an issue.
- alexdumitru 6y ago
  I'm in Europe, but most of my users are based in the US. The ping seems to be in the low 100s for my users and the price is really low compared to AWS/GCP/Azure (about $450 vs $2500). I think it's pretty much worth it.

dinkleberg 6y ago

Are you based in the US? I see Hetzner mentioned often due to their great value, but given their EU location I’d imagine the latency isn’t ideal. I’m curious what your experience is. When I’m looking for a cheap dedi box I use OVH or one of their related companies since they have Canada DCs which are closer. Obviously if you are in the EU, Hetzner and scaleway are a great option.

simplecto 6y ago
>75% of my visitors and users are in the US. The latency is simply not an issue. And surprisingly many in Malaysia. I run my blog and some small SaaS utils. I've never had a complaint ever about speed, responsiveness, or latency. I thought it was because I eschewed bloated front-end frameworks. ;-)
andrewzah 6y ago
I'm from the US and my personal website has been hosted through hetzner for 3+ years. From the US, I typically got around 120-130ms ping before I put it behind cloudflare. It wasn't really an issue.
alexdumitru 6y ago
I'm in Europe, but most of my users are based in the US. The ping seems to be in the low 100s for my users and the price is really low compared to AWS/GCP/Azure (about $450 vs $2500). I think it's pretty much worth it.