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We 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
by Mo3 4y ago
We 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?