I've been seeing a suspicious amount of mentions of Hetzner on HN lately. (Just an observation.)
3 months ago they launched in the US, and as such - they are starting to get more attention.
I guess I fail to see the logic in all of this, appears to be uninformed security theatrics.
With AWS, that amount of money would only cover about 300 GB of outbound traffic. No compute, no storage, just egress to last like a third of a busy day.
They have VMs and sell them as "cloud" but provisioning happens like you fill out a form and they give you a server. It's not instant but fast enough if you don't spin VMs up and down like crazy.
The thing to remember with Hetzner is that they are cheap. Low prices and good infrastructure but you have to do quite a bit yourself and many features one expects from a cloud provider aren't available. Last time I checked they don't have an API to change DNS settings for your domains. You can write GPG signed emails to a bot but I don't know how well that works.
Provisioning of cloud instances is pretty much instant.
(the bare metal offering does not have terraform support)
Edit: ahh someone already mentioned this. Didn’t read that comment before posting
[1] https://docs.hetzner.cloud/ [2] https://github.com/hetznercloud/cli
der8auer has a somewhat recent video on yt about one of their data centers for the curious.
Really enjoyed the video, thanks for the suggestion!
I think this information is outdated - I just did a quick and dirty test and it took 8 seconds to have a new instance up and a second to shut it down.
My small Hetzner VM has been reliably running for years now, so I'm super happy with them, don't get me wrong.
In US there is https://phoenixnap.com/
In UK there is https://www.heficed.com/
I am sure there are more.
AWS offers that with placement groups for EC2 [1].
It's also probably worth mentioning the Dedicated Hosts [2] and Dedicated Instances [3] features of EC2 in this context which allow you to ensure that EC2 instances run on the same physical hardware.
[1]: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/placemen...
[2]: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/dedicate...
[3]: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/dedicate...
I would (and will) jump on Hetzner as soon as they build datacenter in UK. Seems like amazing cloud alternative for companies that cannot justify prices of the big 3 (aws, gcp, azure).
You forgot SQLite.
> Seems like amazing cloud alternative for companies that cannot justify prices of the big 3 (aws, gcp, azure).
It is. The big 3 can be crazily expensive and there are many use cases where you can happily go with a less features but more affordable option. Also traffic is generally way cheaper.
I've had a really great experience since switching over from DigitalOcean after Hetzner opened their Virginia datacenter.
DigitalOcean was a nearly perfect experience for eight years - I can only say good things about them. And then Hetzner went and gave me twice the value with comparable reliability. Frankly I feel spoiled.
their marketing is always extremely, how should i phrase it.... old? i'd seriously doubt their PR department is even remotely aggressive enough to even think of influencing social media.
/s (but not really)
I enjoyed it
I never get tired of praising Hetzner. Their prices are remarkably a fraction of AWS's equivalent products,and their pricing model is completely rational.
The post is actually a negative for Hetzner. They never told me they were offering 10x the capacity for the same price. That's why the Tell HN PSA.
They will shut you down without informing you.