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Any notable competitive advantages over DigitalOcean, Linode, Vultr, and all the other "starting at $5" copycat options in the U.S.? Looking at their price she
by StevePerkins 5y ago
Any notable competitive advantages over DigitalOcean, Linode, Vultr, and all the other "starting at $5" copycat options in the U.S.?
Looking at their price sheet, and converting Euro to U.S. Dollar, it appears that their "$5 droplet" currently costs $4.05. You'd have to make sure you pay with a credit card that doesn't charge foreign transaction fees, and you'd have to hope that the currency exchange rate doesn't shift in a less favorable direction later.
If you're a company operating larger VM's or larger numbers of VM's, then maybe? I guess. But if you're a self-propelled company or an investor-funded startup, then you're probably on AWS, Azure, or GCP anyway. And for personal side project use in the U.S., I'm just not seeing any real reason to jump for a 95 cent discount that will fluctuate.
EDIT: A thank you to the people who actually answered the question, or gave their own personal experience, rather than just downvoting. Looking more closely at the price sheet, I can see that while the smallest option is not very distinguishable from DO or Linode, Hetzner does get more competitive at larger VM sizes.
- NicoJuicy 5y agoPerformance is better than eg. Digitalocean. I recently made a switch and now have a AMD Epyc server with twice the specs for the same amount / month. I'll probably move more and use docker for my WordPress instances there. Easier to maintain than in my droplets and it should be much cheaper too.
- tyingq 5y ago20TB/month of xfer with Hetzner. DigitalOcean, for example, caps you at 1-4 TB for the smaller droplets. And the Hetzner 2 vCPU / 2GB Ram / 40Gb disk space is ~$5.50 USD/month. Digital Ocean's closest offering has one less vCPU, 15GB more disk space, but is $10/month.
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- freemint 5y agoI did a benchmark with GeekBench 5 between Hetzner and Vultr. Hetzner won at performance per dollar: https://github.com/freemin7/discount-cloud-geekbench-5 https://github.com/freemin7/discount-cloud-geekbench-5