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Not sure. They were cheaper than DigitalOcean, to the point where 1 DO instance cost would give you 3 on Hetzner, but now they're at parity, and DO seems to hav
by ymolodtsov 4mo ago
Not sure. They were cheaper than DigitalOcean, to the point where 1 DO instance cost would give you 3 on Hetzner, but now they're at parity, and DO seems to have a better product.
- xhkkffbf 4mo agoWhy do you think it's a better product? Slicker interface?
- moooo99 4mo agoProbably more versatile. Hetzner is just VPSes. They do not offer any PaaS product like managed DBs, managed Redis, wahtever.
- jeremyjh 4mo agoHosted Postgres, hosted K8s, block storage that can IOPS.
- esperent 4mo agoThe reason I use a VPS is to not use hosted anything, personally. So I guess whether that makes it a better product or not is highly personal. Speaking for myself, I used $5 DO droplets for quite a while when learning but as soon as I switched to real projects and realized how quickly the price ramped up, I moved to Hetzner and the simplicity of their interface was a breath of fresh air. I saved a ton of time after switching. So to me, Hetzner has the superior product.
- jeremyjh 4mo agoFor the most part I agree but poor performance on network block storage is very limiting. Also there is no object store service available in Ashburn, its only in EU. My point is more that DO has a complete modern cloud platform, and Hetzner doesn't quite.
- esperent 4mo agoIt's a fair point, I have managed to keep everything on one VPS and it's fast enough. But I've had to make some adjustments based on that limitation. Still, it's like RAM limits. When you don't have enough, it forces you to be more efficient. So it hasn't been a big problem for me, so far at least.
- wouldbecouldbe 4mo agoThe vps performance is not comparable to a dedicated server. Same cpu’s still means twice as slow. Also hetzner alllows for much larger servers in terms of memory at still a fraction of do pricing