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Any info on what DC they use? So far they've run everything themselves which made them slower to expand but was much cheaper to run. If they now use other DC pr
by dx034 5y ago
Any info on what DC they use? So far they've run everything themselves which made them slower to expand but was much cheaper to run. If they now use other DC providers it would explain why they only offer the higher margin cloud servers there. But would be curious if anyone knows where the data center is physically located. With their other ones they're also quite open about it so I was surprised they didn't mention it here.
EDIT: They do mention somewhere on their side that it's a third party DC. So probably no option to offer dedicated servers there (at least not at the same price as in their other locations). Would still be curious which one it is.
- Hetzner_OL 5y agoRight now we're not offering any dedicated servers (as I wrote on another comment). That might change some time in the future depending on how well things go here. But I can't give a clear answer about whether or not we will introduce dedicated root servers, or an ETA. --Katie, Marketing, Hetzner Online
- 0xbkt 5y agoNTT/RagingWire VA1. Here's the details about the sea shipment that was sent from Hetzner Online GmbH in Germany to the US subsidiary: https://www.importgenius.com/importers/hetzner-us https://www.importgenius.com/importers/hetzner-us
- dx034 5y agoOh wow, that's really amazing. Thanks for the info! So they shipped a 40ft container full of servers via ship to the US? That really surprises me, I always thought this kind of equipment was done via air cargo only.
- nojito 5y agoAir Freight is extremely expensive for this purpose.
- dx034 5y agoIt is, but these components also probably cost upwards of a million dollars and are very fragile. Esp with current shipping delays (not sure how the situation is on the route EU-US), I'm surprised they waited the extra few weeks to save a few thousand $.
- Luc 5y agoNow that is a cool database. I'm surprised it's public.
- y4mi 5y agoso if i didn't misunderstood that page they've had one 40 foot container delivered with nineteen "server hardware" pieces, likely racks? thats less than i would've expected, but it makes sense considering that they probably don't have any big customers lined up. it will be interesting to see how fast they'll grow.
- dx034 5y agoMaybe they only shipped some components they don't want to have assembled there or that are more expensive in the US. So theoretically they could've just shipped network equipment or storage servers (for block volumes) while other servers were assembled in the US. I can't really imagine that it's cheaper for them to assemble complete racks in Germany and ship them over, assembly cost by a third party in the US is likely cheaper and definitely much faster.