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Hetzner & OVH gets you the best of both worlds.

Unbelievable (new) specs, hosted and at prices points tough to beat doing it yourself.

E.g.

Hetzner

  AMD RYZEN™ 9 7950X3D (current gen Zen 4)

  16 physical cores (4.2 GHz)

  128GB DDR5 ECC ram

  4TB NVMe

  completely hosted

For only ~$100/mo

https://www.hetzner.com/news/new-amd-ryzen-7950-server

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Both are quite happy to terminate users’ accounts, but on paper it’s really compelling indeed.

Have you seem them terminate unreasonable situations?

They normally are trying to keep their IPs and Network clean of scammers abusing their resources, which inevitably hurt all customers.

My 2024 goal was creating a website for me and hosting a copy of my newsletter there. I heard a lot of good things about Hetzner and choose them. Just right after signing up, even after I put a credit card with 3DS they immediately banned me. I wrote to support, they forwarded me to page. I uploaded my passport with my face. But my account is still banned. And worst thing is I’m 1 month late for my 2024 goal.

> I wrote to support, they forwarded me to page. I uploaded my passport with my face. But my account is still banned.

Is there still more needed to complete their KYC process?

Try racknerd… they have various Black Friday/new year specials that rarely/never expire and the price can be as low as $25/year for a decent 2-cpu VPS. Not the same hardware as OVH, storage often limited, but still an interesting price point and service. Biggest limitations: no 2FA on the control panel and mounting an ISO requires talking to customer service… oh and no automated backups but they might have recently added snapshots.

I should add - keep your own backups. I can’t trust that a service this cheap will not lose my data somehow. It hasn’t yet, but with margins this thin I wonder if they’ll ever go out of business on me.

Hetzner can and will terminate your account and delete all your data on a whim, never telling you why. There is nothing at all you can do to prove your usage was legitimate. I get that they must deal with a lot of abuse but I wouldn't use them for anything mission critical ever.

Any reliable provider? Or is the solution to buy a server and colocate somewhere else?

You get what you pay for. You own what you possess.

AWS is expensive and not without trouble but in my experience they’ve been best of the pack.

Otherwise, on-premises + collocation is never a mistake if the maintenance and upright expenditure is in your budget.

> We’ve mounted the AX102 with 128 GB of DDR5 ECC RAM. In addition to the classic ECC (error correction code), which protects data both on the memory module and during transfer, the new DDR5 memory generation uses the on-die ECC method. This method carries out independent error correction directly on the DRAM chip, giving you greatly optimized reliability and data integrity.

Isn't on-die ECC necessary just because DDR5 is less reliable than previous generations, especially at higher frequencies and density? Makes me wonder whether they use an actual ECC DDR5 memory.

Have you used them? Horror stories on their billing / admin side (ie unilaterally closing your account and being unreachable) abound…

Yet many other folks praise them…

What’s your experience?

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