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Ask HN: Best value/price dedicated servers in US and Europe?

• rcorin 12y ago
  forgot to mention our current providers: ioflood for US, and serverloft for EU.
• ramtatatam 12y ago
  I'm using Linode and I'm happy with it, check out their pricing. https://www.linode.com/pricing https://www.linode.com/pricing
• MrSlo 12y ago
  OVH is pretty cheap, promises a 99.95% SLA. http://www.ovh.ie/dedicated_servers/enterprise/ http://www.ovh.ie/dedicated_servers/enterprise/
• msantos 12y ago
  Europe: http://www.hetzner.de/uk/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver http://www.hetzner.de/uk/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver and http://www.1and1.co.uk http://www.1and1.co.uk
  • hackerboos 12y ago
    I'd avoid Hetzner. A competitor/malicious user can take down your site by DDoS'ing it for a short time.
    • rcorin 12y ago
      And this is not true of the others? I've not seen guarantees against that in any of the other vendors...
      • hackerboos 12y ago
        Hetzner have a policy of null rooting IP and not responding to reinstatement requests resulting in significant downtime. OVH are similarly priced yet have good DDoS protection for free.
  • scalesolved 12y ago
    I actually found Hetzner super reliable, I used it in a previous role and it was great value for money. I have a blog post about setting up and using Hetzner, might be useful! http://scalabilitysolved.com/build-a-kick-ass-couchbase-stack-for-under-1000/ http://scalabilitysolved.com/build-a-kick-ass-couchbase-stac...
  • acelik 12y ago
    Hetzner has a response time of at least 24 hours where you'd have a lot shorter times in companies like Digital Ocean. We use Hetzner, DO and Azure. Looks like they are all similar in terms of uptime. Yet, if you have problem with your server then Hetzner usually takes longer time to recover.
• Someone1234 12y ago
  Uptime guarantees are rarely worth the paper they're printed on. Most will give you some lame credit if they exceed the very generous amount of downtime they allow (e.g. 99% = just under 4 days a year downtime). The only way to get real uptime is to have dedicated on-site support. Which is to say "someone to yell at" when the system(s) go down. But that type of service is quite expensive indeed (add an extra 0 to what you're currently paying minimum). For $100 you're going to get shoddy support and some downtime. All you can really do is buy $100 systems with different vendors so that if one vendor is offline you can push the workload to the other two. But then of course you need to design your infrastructure to move workloads around, and that within itself is a lot of work...
  • rcorin 12y ago
    Agreed, we do have several vendors and do distribute the workload as much as possible. In our experience when a server goes down the whole data center has problems, so even if it's more inconvenient the best is to really have an assortment of vendors.
• snatcher 12y ago
  We are using Hetzner. Xeon 1270 with 32GB RAM costs €69/mo http://www.hetzner.de/hosting/produkte_rootserver/px60 http://www.hetzner.de/hosting/produkte_rootserver/px60 Their SLA is 99.9%
• freerk 12y ago
  Cheap root server providers, mostly in Germany if nothing mentioned otherwise, all with own infrastructure (no resellers) and my personal experience. Note that prices mentioned in Germany are almost all the time incl. VAT, so you might be able so save 19% on those prices. https://www.hetzner.de/us/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver https://www.hetzner.de/us/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver - Hands down my favorite. Very powerful hardware for the price, very professional, good network https://www.webtropia.com/en/ https://www.webtropia.com/en/ - extremly cheap, many different offers, good quality, good option if price is very important https://www.hosteurope.de/en/Server/ https://www.hosteurope.de/en/Server/ - The "Root Servers" they sell are actually VMs. High price but good quality https://www.strato-hosting.co.uk/server/dedicated/ https://www.strato-hosting.co.uk/server/dedicated/ - Belongs to Deutsche Telekom, big company, I never used their dedicated servers (the VMs are crap though) http://www.server4you.com/dedicated-server/ http://www.server4you.com/dedicated-server/ - cheap, big company, quality is ok. Other brands are Serverloft, Plusserver, unmetered.com https://www.1and1.com/server-dedicated-tariff https://www.1and1.com/server-dedicated-tariff - big company, good network, not that cheap http://www.euserv.com/en/dedicated-server/index.php http://www.euserv.com/en/dedicated-server/index.php - many different offers, good support, good value https://english.keyweb.de/products/server/dedicated-server/ https://english.keyweb.de/products/server/dedicated-server/ - never used the dedicated servers, VMs are crap https://www.ip-projects.de/produkte/premium-rootserver/ https://www.ip-projects.de/produkte/premium-rootserver/ - no personal experience https://contabo.de/?show=server https://contabo.de/?show=server - Small company, good offers, good support https://www.manitu.de/root-server/ https://www.manitu.de/root-server/ - Small company, very good support http://www.seflow.net/dedicati/ http://www.seflow.net/dedicati/ - ITALY, small company, very cheap, good https://www.online.net/en/dedicated-server https://www.online.net/en/dedicated-server - FRANCE, very big company, very cheap, good network https://www.digicube.fr/index/comparatif https://www.digicube.fr/index/comparatif - FRANCE, extremly cheap, network not that good http://www.kimsufi.com/us/en/ http://www.kimsufi.com/us/en/ - FRANCE and CANADA, very cheap, good quality, very good dDOS protection. Other brand of OVH is SoyouStart https://www.leaseweb.com/bare-metal-server/all-servers https://www.leaseweb.com/bare-metal-server/all-servers - NETHERLANDS, very big company, very professional, kind of expensive, DCs in different countries
  • rcorin 12y ago