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Same, have been a happy Hetzner customer for 8+ years because they've consistently offered the best dedicated server pricing with essentially free (20TB) bandwi
by mythz 5y ago
Same, have been a happy Hetzner customer for 8+ years because they've consistently offered the best dedicated server pricing with essentially free (20TB) bandwidth.
Unfortunately they're only offering their "Cloud" hosting packages for the time being, so it'll be a while before they start offering dedicated servers.
Once they offer dedicated servers in US and a managed RDS service I can finally look at moving off AWS for most services. But it looks like Cloudflare will beat them to it as their CEO has mentioned they're already working on a managed DB service, hopefully it will be as cost-effective as their R2 pricing.
- Radim 5y agoYes! And their support is amazing too. Doing business with Hetzner somehow always feels very different to e.g. Amazon, or the other tech giants. I wonder if it may be related to the general business mentality (Germany vs USA), and not only the company size.
- k8sToGo 5y agoIt does. Because "customer is king" mentality is very strong in the US and not so much in Europe.
- RealStickman_ 5y agoUnless I'm reading you wrong, this would speak against Hetzner providing good support.
- jacob019 5y agoI had a terrible experience with DHL, we used them for US domestic small parcel shipments before the business unit was shut down for losing money, around 2008 I think. Towards the end they started systematic over charging. They would rate an 8oz package as 20lbs. The bills were 5-10x what they should have been. The service was never very good, they just had a good sales team. I hesitate to generalize from specifics though, it doesn't represent how all German companies do business. Maybe we should care less about national identity and more about the company's reputation.
- killingtime74 5y agoDHL was a US company until 2002, maybe that makes a difference