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JetBrains IDEs, Hetzner servers, mobifone (3GB LTE for $3 monthly), PCB prototypes, good food :) Samsung SSDs

by fxtentacle 5y ago

cain 5y ago
I've heard good things about Hetzner. How do they compare to Linode?
- maciekpaprocki 5y ago
  I agree about hetzner. Specially servers auction. I developed websites that were terrible backend performance wise, just because i knew 20 pounds can get me so much comouting power that i never have to optimise it. i cringe at that now, bht starting your own business without much of a reputation you need to cut corners. When using server auction though make sure you have good backup as its bare metal.
  - fxtentacle 5y ago
    Their "remote hands" service will buy you hardware repairs within the hour. Plus most servers have hardware raid and hotplug HDDs. So I've launched some customers without any backups because they deemed up to 1 hour of occasional downtime fully acceptable.
- osivertsson 5y ago
  If you are a US customer you can currently get a beefy server with 256GiB of RAM, a few years old Xeon, and a huge amount of traffic included for €50 a month on Hetzner auction. If you are in EU you need to add local sales tax, still dirt cheap. Works great for me!
- fxtentacle 5y ago
  It's not even the same category anymore. For the price of the smallest dedicated CPU Linode, I get a 64GB AMD Epyc 16 core server from Hetzner. So Linode is roughly 16x more expensive. That said, I rent a lot from Hetzner so I get special pricing. But also aside from the price, all of my servers are in their own cage with biometric access check plus I have private dedicated 1GBit LAN between my nodes. And their uptime was better than our Amazon AWS and Heroku instances...
bonestamp2 5y ago
Who do you use for PCBs?
- fxtentacle 5y ago
  Eurocircuits for NDA stuff. They are slow to work with and expensive, but I trust their integrity and they produce fully inside Europe. Aisler is super fast and cheap, but I need to solder myself, so I use them for small interface boards pcbway is in China, but I can send in my own components. I used them for example for an usb3+fpga+RAM base board. They are great for stock modules like USB interfaces, but have no NDA options. jlcpcb is in China and cheap and fast, but you can only use components in their list. So I use them for larger batches of boards that I prototyped with aisler. Also no NDA option.
  - bonestamp2 5y ago
    This is a very thoughtful response, thank you!

JetBrains IDEs, Hetzner servers, mobifone (3GB LTE for $3 monthly), PCB prototypes, good food :) Samsung SSDs

cain 5y ago

I've heard good things about Hetzner. How do they compare to Linode?

maciekpaprocki 5y ago
I agree about hetzner. Specially servers auction. I developed websites that were terrible backend performance wise, just because i knew 20 pounds can get me so much comouting power that i never have to optimise it. i cringe at that now, bht starting your own business without much of a reputation you need to cut corners. When using server auction though make sure you have good backup as its bare metal.
- fxtentacle 5y ago
  Their "remote hands" service will buy you hardware repairs within the hour. Plus most servers have hardware raid and hotplug HDDs. So I've launched some customers without any backups because they deemed up to 1 hour of occasional downtime fully acceptable.
osivertsson 5y ago
If you are a US customer you can currently get a beefy server with 256GiB of RAM, a few years old Xeon, and a huge amount of traffic included for €50 a month on Hetzner auction. If you are in EU you need to add local sales tax, still dirt cheap. Works great for me!
fxtentacle 5y ago
It's not even the same category anymore. For the price of the smallest dedicated CPU Linode, I get a 64GB AMD Epyc 16 core server from Hetzner. So Linode is roughly 16x more expensive. That said, I rent a lot from Hetzner so I get special pricing. But also aside from the price, all of my servers are in their own cage with biometric access check plus I have private dedicated 1GBit LAN between my nodes. And their uptime was better than our Amazon AWS and Heroku instances...

bonestamp2 5y ago

Who do you use for PCBs?

fxtentacle 5y ago
Eurocircuits for NDA stuff. They are slow to work with and expensive, but I trust their integrity and they produce fully inside Europe. Aisler is super fast and cheap, but I need to solder myself, so I use them for small interface boards pcbway is in China, but I can send in my own components. I used them for example for an usb3+fpga+RAM base board. They are great for stock modules like USB interfaces, but have no NDA options. jlcpcb is in China and cheap and fast, but you can only use components in their list. So I use them for larger batches of boards that I prototyped with aisler. Also no NDA option.
- bonestamp2 5y ago
  This is a very thoughtful response, thank you!