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I would use Hetzner more but most of my user base is in the USA, and there is a lot of added latency to having your servers in Europe. I sort of think of Hetzner like a Costco for servers - does anyone know the closest equivalent in the USA?

Update: Hetzer does have USA servers, but apparently not dedicated bare metal servers in USA (only shared/VM).

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Hetzner has datacenters in US these days: https://www.hetzner.com/unternehmen/rechenzentrum/

(haven’t tried them though)

I use it, `time=39.741 ms` when I `ping` my Oregon server from LA

Note they currently only offer AMD VMs in the US though, they don't have Intel VMs, Ampere VMs, or any dedicated bare-metal boxes there.

Hetzner has servers available in Ashburn, VA and Hillsboro, OR.

Important to add: virtual servers. They don't offer physical servers in the US, as far as I remember they're not running their own data centers.

I didn't notice but the dedicated machines are indeed "vCPU". But isn't that how all VPS providers do it? How else would they manage/sandbox the machines?

Bare metal machines only need a minimal hypervisor, no need to sandbox if there are no other users.

The point is that their dedicated servers in EU are not VPS:es. They are dedicated servers, not virtual private servers. This usually means better performance (at the same pricepoint but dedicated have a higher starting point) among some other pros.

A VPS with dedicated vCPUs is not the same as a dedicated server.

Is Hetzner the same as OVH? OVH has data centers in the same cities.

No. Hetzner is German, OVH is French.

Nope different companies But they may colocated in the same date centers Hetzner USA is located inside NTT Global Data Centers Americas, Inc. QTS Investment Properties Hillsboro, LLC

Different companies, those are just both places with high concentrations of data centers; Ashburn specifically has been a data center hub since the AOL days.

Hetzner sell VMs located in the East Coast US as well: https://www.hetzner.com/cloud/

West coast too, FYI.

There's a million us hosts, go with any of them, vms are a commodity product.

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