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Except OVH is a haven for nefarious use (seedboxes, etc.) and Hetzner most certainly is not!
by aes256 14y ago
Except OVH is a haven for nefarious use (seedboxes, etc.) and Hetzner most certainly is not!
- dspillett 14y ago> Except OVH is a haven for nefarious use (seedboxes, etc.) Particularly through certain resellers, including the own "budget line" (http://www.kimsufi.co.uk/ http://www.kimsufi.co.uk/). Not that I'd know anything about nefariousness, 'onest guv.
- acous 14y agoTheir french site has slightly better prices for some reason: http://www.kimsufi.com/fr/ http://www.kimsufi.com/fr/
- nolok 14y agoKimsufi was launched to fight against french Dedibox (now online.net), which at the time had lower price than the lowest OVH server. They stayed at the same level as them since then.
- dspillett 14y agoCould that be due to differences in VAT? If not it might just be that they like to quote nice round figures (£14.99 and €14.99 perhaps) - this happens sometimes when the pound and the euro are (or recently have been) near parity.
- cake 14y agoWhat makes you say that Hetzner isn't "a haven for nefarious use" ?
- aes256 14y agoHetzner specifically prohibit the use of file sharing services (see the service agreement for root servers: (http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/legal/system-policies-rs http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/legal/system-policies-rs). Not sure if it's still the case, but they also used to have a policy of blocking port 6667.