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That's not good but you do get what you pay for. Should never put all your eggs in one basket like that. The €20 of credit made air accelerate out of my nostri
by c7DJTLrn 5y ago
That's not good but you do get what you pay for. Should never put all your eggs in one basket like that.
The €20 of credit made air accelerate out of my nostrils.
- cle 5y ago> The €20 of credit made air accelerate out of my nostrils. Also they made sure you knew it's only valid for one year!
- systemvoltage 5y agoI came across tour of Hetzner datacenter[1] and it looks like a completely unprofessional setup, like castle on stilts. Does not inspire confidence. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eo8nz_niiM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eo8nz_niiM
- tobltobs 5y agoCould you tell us some of the red flags you see in this video? Considering it is a low cost hoster it looks fine to me, but I am not an expert.
- jamal-kumar 5y agoIf that's your standard for a garbage data centre... hmmm Yeah I've seen way, way worse. Stuff like power cables zip tied to network cables and fibre lines. DUST. delerict hardware just sitting everywhere. This is nice. What are you looking for, IBM dudes in white shirts running around?
- throwaway71271 5y agolooks pretty good depends how localized the fire extinguishers are and how the power is distributed which is hard to see from the video not sure what you expect, using 1-2U boxes or blades or something wont change the setup that much, it pretty much boils down to 'how many machines will die in the same time on power/fire' and how can we cool them as cheap as possible.
- brokenodometer 5y agoI just watched the whole thing and thought it looked really cool! Seems like a scrappy and self-reliant company that is focused on cost effectiveness and efficiency.
- jacquesm 5y agoI've seen far worse. That said, the compute density is pretty low and the gear is rather older than what you would expect, they clearly are not optimizing for power efficiency but for capital efficiency, which means that as long as they can operate a box profitable they'd rather add more buildings than upgrade their servers. Interesting thermal arrangement, I wonder how well this would work in a fire, it looks like a giant chimney to me but maybe there is some secret sauce.
- jpalomaki 5y agoHetzner has been traditionally renting dedicated servers for their customers - this might still be main part of their business.
- Psychotherapist 5y agoThis is also not their "state-of-the-art" DC. FSN is one of the older ones, I'd be interested in a tour of one of their Helsinki DC's which should be newer
- native_samples 5y agoFWIW if you focus on the modern areas, Google datacenters don't look much different.
- philjohn 5y agoThat's why they're so cheap, compared to a lot of other offerings.
- singingboyo 5y agoLooks like standard machines and not really servers, but there's nothing wrong there. Fairly clean wiring, no random cables, etc etc. HDD testing is a little sketchy, but they need to be quick-swapped, so it makes sense. Ever been in a firewall/router manufacturers R&D/QA lab room? Those are so, so much worse. This is heaven by comparison.