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I’m starting to worry about this Hetzner trend. It can end up to get the price skyrocketing.

by ianberdin 11mo ago

goastler 11mo ago
There's other providers (OVH, etc) so I'm sure the price will remain competitive
arbol 11mo ago
Hopefully not. Their console is pretty bad so I reckon that will put a lot of people off.
- patrickmcnamara 11mo ago
  The new console is completely fine.
- the_duke 11mo ago
  The cloud console is pretty good though? Even does live sync! The old one for dedicated servers (robot) is horribly outdated though.
  - arbol 11mo ago
    Ah right, we're on robot so I've not seen the cloud one. Robot is old! :)
righthand 11mo ago
We’re just going to end up with everyone moving from Amazon to Hetzner and the same issue will remain. High prices, lockin, etc will appear. We need an American “get off American big tech” movement. Differentiate people! Reading “we moved from X to Y” does not mean everyone move from X to Y, it means start considering the Y values and research other Y’s around you.
- arbol 11mo ago
  We also use OVH, Contabo, Hostwinds... Architect so you can be multi-provider and reduce internet centralisation!
  - righthand 11mo ago
    Nice, if you write an article about it, try to leave the focus off of a single hosting provider. Encouraging the differentiation is important too (next time! I’m not dogging the movement or your efforts in this article, I love to see reduced reliance of Amazon in general).
- zzzeek 11mo ago
  Hetzner is German?
  - Lapel2742 11mo ago
    > Hetzner is German? Yes. Hetzner is a German company from Gunzenhausen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hetzner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hetzner
- k4rnaj1k 11mo ago
  Pretty sure hetzner is still a lot less in terms of provided features. There are reasons people get "amazon certified". So, aws alternatives are few and require a lot more resources to create and maintain, while alternatives to hetzner would be a lot easier to create, keeping original Hetzner prices in-check with the market.
- cmrdporcupine 11mo ago
  > We need an American “get off American big tech” movement. As a non-American, I use Hetzner precisely to have my projects not hosted anywhere near the US.
dehrmann 11mo ago
EC2 is sort of a ceiling price.
dzonga 11mo ago
prices just dropped. :)

I’m starting to worry about this Hetzner trend. It can end up to get the price skyrocketing.

goastler 11mo ago

There's other providers (OVH, etc) so I'm sure the price will remain competitive

arbol 11mo ago

Hopefully not. Their console is pretty bad so I reckon that will put a lot of people off.

patrickmcnamara 11mo ago
The new console is completely fine.
the_duke 11mo ago
The cloud console is pretty good though? Even does live sync! The old one for dedicated servers (robot) is horribly outdated though.
- arbol 11mo ago
  Ah right, we're on robot so I've not seen the cloud one. Robot is old! :)

righthand 11mo ago

We’re just going to end up with everyone moving from Amazon to Hetzner and the same issue will remain. High prices, lockin, etc will appear. We need an American “get off American big tech” movement. Differentiate people! Reading “we moved from X to Y” does not mean everyone move from X to Y, it means start considering the Y values and research other Y’s around you.

arbol 11mo ago
We also use OVH, Contabo, Hostwinds... Architect so you can be multi-provider and reduce internet centralisation!
- righthand 11mo ago
  Nice, if you write an article about it, try to leave the focus off of a single hosting provider. Encouraging the differentiation is important too (next time! I’m not dogging the movement or your efforts in this article, I love to see reduced reliance of Amazon in general).
zzzeek 11mo ago
Hetzner is German?
- Lapel2742 11mo ago
  > Hetzner is German? Yes. Hetzner is a German company from Gunzenhausen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hetzner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hetzner
k4rnaj1k 11mo ago
Pretty sure hetzner is still a lot less in terms of provided features. There are reasons people get "amazon certified". So, aws alternatives are few and require a lot more resources to create and maintain, while alternatives to hetzner would be a lot easier to create, keeping original Hetzner prices in-check with the market.
cmrdporcupine 11mo ago
> We need an American “get off American big tech” movement. As a non-American, I use Hetzner precisely to have my projects not hosted anywhere near the US.

dehrmann 11mo ago

EC2 is sort of a ceiling price.

dzonga 11mo ago

prices just dropped. :)