5 ms·
It's not single-DC (since they have multiple locations and multiple datacenters at those locations), but they are a single provider. However AWS is also a singl
by welterde 4y ago
It's not single-DC (since they have multiple locations and multiple datacenters at those locations), but they are a single provider.
However AWS is also a single provider.
And as Facebook and large ISPs have demonstrated recently-ish, having a global footprint does not mean you cannot break everything at the same time in interesting ways anyway. Only way around this is to go with multiple vendors, but now whatever you build to use them at the same time/fail over between them will be the weakest link.
Hetzner also offers server-grade hardware btw.
But if your setup is fully redundant anyway it doesn't really matter anymore if it's consumer grade or not (which the setup described in the article is).
- Mo3 4y agoWe are discussing the service described in the article linked to with this post, which 1) runs single-DC 2) uses consumer hardware I agree on the notion that with redundancy it is not as important what kind of hardware is used, but it still is something to consider (seeing how this is a one-person venture and server outages are still a huge time-sink), and I wouldn't even necessarily speak about true redundancy in this case
- welterde 4y agoThe article explicitly said the servers are scattered across the various datacenters at the Falkenstein location - ergo not single-dc. Now you can argue about the amount of shared fate, but they are separate buildings and hetzner lists them as separate datacenters [0]. [0] https://docs.hetzner.com/general/others/data-centers-and-connection/ https://docs.hetzner.com/general/others/data-centers-and-con...
- Mo3 4y agoLol... okay, point taken, single-location. Not going to argue about the shared fate, as I've seen more outages than not affecting whole locations..
- upupandup 4y agoim curious as to why they dont have US West, Central, Asia data centers. Even with a US West, Central offering they could really do a number with their pricing discounts. even better if they offer Singapore & Tokyo.
- tomschwiha 4y agoHetzner has built a DC in the US East where they currently offer their cloud products: https://www.hetzner.com/cloud https://www.hetzner.com/cloud
- xuki 4y ago> uses consumer hardware I run dedicated servers at Hetzner and the consumer parts are CPU and motherboard. Memory is ECC, NVMe SSDs are data center grade. How often do you see CPU failure?