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Hetzner provides unbelievable value but didn’t get much US attention since they were only located in Europe. 3 months ago they launched in the US, and as such
by alberth 5y ago
Hetzner provides unbelievable value but didn’t get much US attention since they were only located in Europe.
3 months ago they launched in the US, and as such - they are starting to get more attention.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29092715 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29092715
- systemvoltage 5y agoIt is interesting to see comments expressing extreme concerns about US employees being able to access Hetzner servers, but then I'd wager: 1) they're probably using Google/US services at their companies with almost a gaurantee 2) Germany has ties with US for surveillance 3) Hetzner uses US servers (Intel, AMD, Micron) and a whole bunch of other components in their servers. Or worse, Chinese components. I guess I fail to see the logic in all of this, appears to be uninformed security theatrics.
- somebodythere 5y agoI think it's just about latency. If most of your users/employees are located in NA, it doesn't make much sense to give them degraded network experience to save few Euros on hosting costs.
- sshine 5y agoIt’s not a few euros. It’s easily a factor 10-20 in costs.
- somebodythere 5y agoCompared to AWS et al, sure. But there are plenty cloud services with datacenters in USA that are similarly cost-effective.
- Hamuko 5y agoI used to run a service that hosted about a terabyte of video content and at its peak did 1 TB of outbound traffic in 24 hours. Cost 25 €/month with Hetzner. With AWS, that amount of money would only cover about 300 GB of outbound traffic. No compute, no storage, just egress to last like a third of a busy day.