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How is reliability these days?

by api 5y ago

leephillips 5y ago
I have one at the 6€/mo level, with 498 days of uptime as of today.
- hackbinary 5y ago
  Do you not patch your kernel?
  - leephillips 5y ago
    Apparently not. Talk me into it.
    - hackbinary 5y ago
      While having a long uptime sounds cool it is a signal that you don't patch that often. Maybe you patch your other stuff, but I would bet on even odds that you don't. So then that is the rest of the stack, eg systemd which has some mega flaws IIRC. You're leaving yourself open to having something exploited. Have a look at your ssh logs where "people" are constantly trying to get in. https://www.whitesourcesoftware.com/resources/blog/top-10-linux-kernel-vulnerabilities/ https://www.whitesourcesoftware.com/resources/blog/top-10-li...
      - leephillips 5y ago
        I understand, and my uptime was just to show how reliable Hetzner has been. By “talk me into it” I meant please point out a real kernel security flaw that be exploited without already having access to the system. There very well might be some! I’m not well up on all of this. Yes, I check my logs and see the constant stream of breakin attempts. Basic security precautions seem to keep them out.
      - Drybones 5y ago
        As someone who does full patches every couple of weeks on my servers and reboots every several months, I agree, however there's stuff that can live patch the kernel these days like kernelcare and livepatch by Canonical and more. Another reason though to reboot every so often is for the server to do filesystem checks on the root partition(s).
        hackbinary 5y ago
        Hot patching (kpatch) wasn't GE until earlier this year on Ubuntu.
mythz 5y ago
I've only had 1 HDD failure since 2013 which their support was quick to resolve. I haven't noticed any network interruptions myself personally during that time. I've only had them for a few years but I've yet to experience any issues with their great value (e.g 2TB €9.90 /mo) storage box servers. https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box Only issue I have with them is the latency of their Germany DC's from the US, if they end up offering dedicated servers in a US DC I'll be moving over my existing Hetzner and AWS (non RDS linked) App servers over.
- axelthegerman 5y ago
  They announced their US datacenter recently! Welcome news for myself too
  - mythz 5y ago
    Yeah but it's only for their higher margin cloud servers products atm, they haven't committed to offering dedicated servers yet.
vladharbuz 5y ago
I've been running various (small) servers with Hetzner for the past 9 years and I've never noticed any downtime or any issues of any kind.
- mhkool 5y ago
  me too
- n3storm 5y ago
  Me too Our first cloud server (supposedly to be a test) is runing since march 2018 We have managed more than 15 dedicated servers since 2012 Never an issue
aivisol 5y ago
I am running dedicated servers on Hetzner since 2008 (max I had was 10 root servers at a time). Outages were quite common back in a day, both sudden server reboots and HDD failures. However, for last 5+ years I haven't got any single outage. Support is always very quick to react and you could usually get HDD replaced same day.
missedthecue 5y ago
I've been with Hetzner for about 400 days straight now with no unplanned downtime.

How is reliability these days?

by api 5y ago

How is reliability these days?

leephillips 5y ago

I have one at the 6€/mo level, with 498 days of uptime as of today.

hackbinary 5y ago
Do you not patch your kernel?
- leephillips 5y ago
  Apparently not. Talk me into it.
  - hackbinary 5y ago
    While having a long uptime sounds cool it is a signal that you don't patch that often. Maybe you patch your other stuff, but I would bet on even odds that you don't. So then that is the rest of the stack, eg systemd which has some mega flaws IIRC. You're leaving yourself open to having something exploited. Have a look at your ssh logs where "people" are constantly trying to get in. https://www.whitesourcesoftware.com/resources/blog/top-10-linux-kernel-vulnerabilities/ https://www.whitesourcesoftware.com/resources/blog/top-10-li...
    - leephillips 5y ago
      I understand, and my uptime was just to show how reliable Hetzner has been. By “talk me into it” I meant please point out a real kernel security flaw that be exploited without already having access to the system. There very well might be some! I’m not well up on all of this. Yes, I check my logs and see the constant stream of breakin attempts. Basic security precautions seem to keep them out.
    - Drybones 5y ago
      As someone who does full patches every couple of weeks on my servers and reboots every several months, I agree, however there's stuff that can live patch the kernel these days like kernelcare and livepatch by Canonical and more. Another reason though to reboot every so often is for the server to do filesystem checks on the root partition(s).
      - hackbinary 5y ago
        Hot patching (kpatch) wasn't GE until earlier this year on Ubuntu.

mythz 5y ago

I've only had 1 HDD failure since 2013 which their support was quick to resolve. I haven't noticed any network interruptions myself personally during that time. I've only had them for a few years but I've yet to experience any issues with their great value (e.g 2TB €9.90 /mo) storage box servers. https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box Only issue I have with them is the latency of their Germany DC's from the US, if they end up offering dedicated servers in a US DC I'll be moving over my existing Hetzner and AWS (non RDS linked) App servers over.

axelthegerman 5y ago
They announced their US datacenter recently! Welcome news for myself too
- mythz 5y ago
  Yeah but it's only for their higher margin cloud servers products atm, they haven't committed to offering dedicated servers yet.

vladharbuz 5y ago

I've been running various (small) servers with Hetzner for the past 9 years and I've never noticed any downtime or any issues of any kind.

mhkool 5y ago
me too
n3storm 5y ago
Me too Our first cloud server (supposedly to be a test) is runing since march 2018 We have managed more than 15 dedicated servers since 2012 Never an issue

aivisol 5y ago

I am running dedicated servers on Hetzner since 2008 (max I had was 10 root servers at a time). Outages were quite common back in a day, both sudden server reboots and HDD failures. However, for last 5+ years I haven't got any single outage. Support is always very quick to react and you could usually get HDD replaced same day.

missedthecue 5y ago

I've been with Hetzner for about 400 days straight now with no unplanned downtime.