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Hetzner has crazy prices. Compared to AWS, one does ask himself if amazon cloud is the right solution

by Goranek 14y ago

Turing_Machine 14y ago
I'm not familiar with Hetzner, but another thing to consider is whether the "crazy prices" are sustainable (and they may well be -- again, I'm not familiar with the company).
- buster 14y ago
  Hetzner exists since 1997, it's a well known provider at least in germany for many years. So it's not like they will go bancrupt. They probably just know how to be cost efficient out of experience.
CWIZO 14y ago
Considering how unreliable their servers and links are. And how their support responses are catastrophicly slow ... I wouldn't put anything citical on Hetzner.
- Goranek 14y ago
  Are you 100% sure? I just decided to move to them :/
  - CWIZO 14y ago
    We have bad experiences, that's all I'm saying. Judging from other HN users they are great. But sadly this hasn't been the case for us.
    - Goranek 14y ago
      It's sad that when i'm comparing AWS to Hetzner, I'm always asking what will people say ... Hetzner isn't cloud..Cloud is "in".. Damn it.. I hate that!!!
    - buster 14y ago
      Yes, i'm wondering (i don't have a hetzner server) but from what i have heard by others Hetzner has a very good reputation..
  - tzaman 14y ago
    You can safely move to them, I have several servers, no problems so far, every support request is answered pretty much the same day, and the prices are just ridiculously low. No provider has 100% customer satisfaction rate.
silenteh 14y ago
The issue with Hetzner is not the price of the servers. The problem is their connection. The max bandwidth I could get was around 180Mb/s, even though their marketing says 1 Gb/s port. In fact the port is shared. I have got around 10 servers there and now I am moving away and decided to go with Amazon. However for a startup with european market it could be a good option.
cjbprime 14y ago
Those are indeed crazy prices. Do you know whether people outside the EU can avoid paying the 20% VAT on them, too?
- sasoon 14y ago
  If you are outside the EU, you are automatically charged price without VAT.

Hetzner has crazy prices. Compared to AWS, one does ask himself if amazon cloud is the right solution

by Goranek 14y ago

Hetzner has crazy prices. Compared to AWS, one does ask himself if amazon cloud is the right solution

I'm not familiar with Hetzner, but another thing to consider is whether the "crazy prices" are sustainable (and they may well be -- again, I'm not familiar with the company).

buster 14y ago
Hetzner exists since 1997, it's a well known provider at least in germany for many years. So it's not like they will go bancrupt. They probably just know how to be cost efficient out of experience.

CWIZO 14y ago

Considering how unreliable their servers and links are. And how their support responses are catastrophicly slow ... I wouldn't put anything citical on Hetzner.

Goranek 14y ago
Are you 100% sure? I just decided to move to them :/
- CWIZO 14y ago
  We have bad experiences, that's all I'm saying. Judging from other HN users they are great. But sadly this hasn't been the case for us.
  - Goranek 14y ago
    It's sad that when i'm comparing AWS to Hetzner, I'm always asking what will people say ... Hetzner isn't cloud..Cloud is "in".. Damn it.. I hate that!!!
  - buster 14y ago
    Yes, i'm wondering (i don't have a hetzner server) but from what i have heard by others Hetzner has a very good reputation..
- tzaman 14y ago
  You can safely move to them, I have several servers, no problems so far, every support request is answered pretty much the same day, and the prices are just ridiculously low. No provider has 100% customer satisfaction rate.

silenteh 14y ago

The issue with Hetzner is not the price of the servers. The problem is their connection. The max bandwidth I could get was around 180Mb/s, even though their marketing says 1 Gb/s port. In fact the port is shared. I have got around 10 servers there and now I am moving away and decided to go with Amazon. However for a startup with european market it could be a good option.

cjbprime 14y ago

Those are indeed crazy prices. Do you know whether people outside the EU can avoid paying the 20% VAT on them, too?

sasoon 14y ago
If you are outside the EU, you are automatically charged price without VAT.