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Hetzner is not only able to get better volume discounts, they also spend a lot of engineering time bringing down costs, and have decades of experience doing so.
by wongarsu 3y ago
Hetzner is not only able to get better volume discounts, they also spend a lot of engineering time bringing down costs, and have decades of experience doing so.
They offer some Dell Servers for those that really want them, but most of their servers have a custom mix of consumer hardware, server hardware and in-house hardware (for example they use their own racking system), optimized to minimize lifetime cost in a datacenter. For example most servers use datacenter SSDs, but consumer CPUs.
- dist-epoch 3y agoHetzner is buying ASUS consumer AM5 motherboards, but with the whole CPU + memory block rotated so that the memory sticks are horizontal instead of vertical for better airflow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2P8mjWRqpk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2P8mjWRqpk
- justinclift 3y agoThey also buy (at least) ASRock Rack motherboards as well. Saying that from looking at the dmidecode output from some of our dedicated server currently with them: Handle 0x0002, DMI type 2, 15 bytes Base Board Information Manufacturer: ASRockRack Product Name: B565D4-V1L
- ofrzeta 3y agoThey have lots of different boards, among others ASRock. Even within the same range of models you can buy, for instance AX52 you can get different manufacturers. It's not really transparent to the customers when they order. Source: dmidecode
- cobertos 3y agoDo you have more details on their own racking system? I couldn't find anything on this.
- wongarsu 3y agoThe best resource I know is a tour of one of their data centers. Around minute 6 you get some nice views on their current-gen racks, and later in the video you see the back side, followed by the assembly of the servers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eo8nz_niiM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eo8nz_niiM