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About 150€ per month as a dedicated server from Hetzner.
by ftth_finland 4y ago
About 150€ per month as a dedicated server from Hetzner.
- belter 4y agoSo the Cloud is the cheaper option, if you factor in energy cost and hardware depreciation.
- ftth_finland 4y agoThe monthly cost of a dedicated server includes everything: bandwidth, power and hardware. How do you figure a $5k annual cloud spend is cheaper than ~150€ per month?
- belter 4y agoI do not understand your comment.
- hiddencost 4y agoI think you're confused. ~150€ in cloud costs is cheaper than $5k cost to buy the hardware the guy has in his living room.
- Nextgrid 4y agoMost people when talking about "cloud" refer to the likes of AWS/GCP/Azure rather than old-school bare-metal server hosts.
- dizhn 4y agoI think parent is talking about colo.
- marginalia_nu 4y agoSomething like €200/mo if you factor in the need for disk space as well. This is also Hetzner we're talking about. They're sort of infamous for horror stories of arbitrarily removed servers and having shitty support. They're the cheapest for a reason. But with dedicated servers, are we really talking cloud?
- ftth_finland 4y agoA dedicated server is obviously not “cloud”, but that wasn’t really the point I was making. My point was rather underlining the absurdity of using cloud for everything. Herzner is just an example of a dedicated server provider. There are others, some in the same price range, others a bit more. As an aside to my point, it is often cheaper and more flexible to use dedicated servers than you buy and collocate your own hardware.
- bla3 4y agoI only rent a small server from them, but I've been happy with their support. Talked to a real human who could help me with tech questions, even though I pay them next to nothing. (No affiliation.)
- marginalia_nu 4y agoGood to hear. You only really hear the people complaining. With as many customers they have, it's hard to know how representative it is.
- dizhn 3y agoMost of the problems I read about are during the initial signup stage. They ask for a copy of your passport etc and even then some people can't signup because presumably their info is triggering something in Hetzner's anti fraud checks. This sucks for those people of course. The other common cause of issues is things like crypto which they don't want in their network at all. This will sound like I am downplaying what people have exprerienced and/or being apologetic on their behalf but that is not my intention. I am just a small time customer of theirs. I've had 1 or 2 dedicated servers with them for many many years now upgrading and migrating as necessary. (It used to be that if you waited for a year or two and upgraded you'd get a better server for cheaper. Those days are gone.) I've only dealt with support over email where they have been both capable and helpful, but what I needed was just plugging in a hardware kvm switch (free for a few hours - i never had to pay) or replacing a failing hard drive (they do this with zero friction). Perhaps I am lenient on the tech support staff. After all they are my people. I've been to a few datacenters and have huge respect for what they do. On the presales side they seem to reply with a matter of fact tone with no flexibility. They are a German company after all.