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Is there a Hetzner equivalent in the US or Canada?

I've been keeping my eyes peeled for one and.. there are actually several. http://netdepot.com/ is the one I've come closest to ordering from so far but I haven't yet done so. I like that they do "buy downs" where you can pay for extra hardware up front though. It's not quite as cheap as Hetzner but it's not miles away.

Others on my radar are https://hivelocity.net and http://www.100tb.com/ - at the VPS level, http://buyvm.net/ and http://prgmr.com/xen/ are both cheap for the quality you appear to get (but I can't yet vouch for this directly).

Thanks for the links. Not sure if any of them fit the bill for me, sadly - I need at least one box with large RAIDed SSDs for a database. Hetzner seems to offer this.

The "buydown" option provides a nice alternative between colocation and dedicated server. With initial setup fee of $1300, you can get a server with similar specs to m2.2xlarge + 4000 IOPS for just $139 a month, while not having to worry about replacing failed hardware parts and resource contention. Sweet.

OVH has very similar prices and you can peep at their http://status.ovh.com/ to see how they have been going with uptime.

Yeah, I've been very tempted, but I've unfortunately seen some horror stories about them that have given me pause. Have you given them a try? If so, would you run a business on them?

We have nearly 100 servers in the Montreal BHS datacentre. Been very happy so far. The web GUI is fairly buggy and they have no automatic billing so you have to manually renew each server but they tell me this will be fixed soon.

Good enough for me, thanks. Though not being able to pull together something basic like automatic billing is pretty worrying :-/

We're happy with OVH (we have some boxes in Montreal and some in their France location) - good prices, no issues after a year+ usage.

OVH actually does NOT have very similar prices. Hetzner is by far the cheapest dedicated hosting that I know of.

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