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Hetzner added AMD Ryzen CPUs
https://www.hetzner.de/ot/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-amd
I am curious how the perform vs Xeons
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Based on Passmark, the Ryzen models are much faster.
Both servers are 50 Euros. The Ryzen has two more cores, so it's not better for every usecase. But damn, I'm so happy AMD is finally back.
Someone should go buy a dedi and offer VPS here.
Maybe you can convince @exception0x876 of such a thing
Are the virtualization instruction fully functional now? Ryzen feels like beta now, though it provides better bang for the buck, debug is more often needed.
According to a quick Google search, visualization works fine. Hetzner probably wouldn't offer them if that were any different.
While I like AMD and Ryzen in particular, the additional 10 euros on Hetzner Ryzen servers compared to Skylake models seems a bit off because the CPU prices are comparable.
While the CPU price is important, you also have to consider power usage, ram, motherboard, heat, etc. as well.
I am willing to bet the motherboards are rather expensive and they use more power (and create more heat) than their Skylake counterparts.
no mention of ECC ram.
If anyone orders and can post memory details, you have my virtual thank you.
you think hetzner would give a bro deal and let me try it and if it doesn't fit my needs within a few days i could just get a refund? Don't want to pay 99 euros to set it up and then find out its terrible for what i need it for
Hetzner does not charge you until the end of the month, so you can cancel it if you don't like it.
Nope, they don't do refunds anymore. But you could email them, maybe they'll give you a server to test for a fixed amount, worth a try anyway.
Their AGB (TOS) still states the 14-days-unconditional-money-back-guarantee. You might be wrong? I am quite sure that nothing has changed here. But I am just an unfriendly German. Don't trust me.
Would love to try them out, but those setup fees are kind of ugly.
The boards are partly cheaper as AMD, as before, seems to subvention the chipset prices heavily. This was also the same to push AM1 (i paid ~ 15EUR ea for a bunch of AM1 boards from Asus).
The CPUs use more power, yes, chipset - no idea, AMD does unlike Intel not publish detailed data.
This is cool I suppose however i think waiting for their server CPU will be a better idea in my opinion.
As usual the desktop parts have ECC controllers and ECC support. The instruction set - as far as known - is also the same on server SKUs.
also need Linux 4.10 or 4.11 kernels for Ryzen 7 for best performance and compatibility. Wonder if Hetzner is adding custom Linux 4.10+ kernels for all their OS images ?
Too bad about the 500gb sata disks, that's disappointing compared to other Hetzner servers. Also that that they don't offer the 1800X which is just confusing to me: what's the point of it if you don't get the fastest one?
Nocix.net had some Ryzens a while back with iirc no setup fee, but I don't see them listed any more. The Hetzner setup fees are pretty steep.
I don't think a VPS on one of these would have much point, since you're sharing the cpu with other users, so you don't get the speed to yourself. Ryzen is a little bit slower than Kaby Lake for single core computing. They beat comparably priced Intel processors by having more cores at the same price.
There are power measurements and stuff in the Anandtech Ryzen review:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/11170/the-amd-zen-and-ryzen-7-review-a-deep-dive-on-1800x-1700x-and-1700
It's a pair of 500GB SSDs. Pretty standard among Hetzner configs.
Fucking cluster. Double post. Ignore me.
No, that would go against policy. You will need to rely on own install/Lara or there will be custom images only visible to this servers.
Just taken a look and the pricing is impressive - if there's enough demand I will buy and sort out VPS provisioning for those interested
Pricing looks worse than the EX series all around, even if the cpu is a little bit faster from the higher core count:
https://www.hetzner.de/ot/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-produktmatrix-ex
I imagine a lot of that will be to do with the fact that Ryzen is relatively new and commercial support from AMD for datacenter usage on consumer chips I imagine is at a premium
Just wait for x300 and x399 chipsets...:-)
Those would be really beasts
Oh whoops! Thanks. Somehow I saw SATA and thought it was HDD's. This is much better, actually pretty nice. 64GB+8 cores+2x500GB split 16 ways = 4GB ram and 25GB raid1 ssd and a full dedicated thread within LET pricing with reasonable host margin. Not a bad vps offer at all. Too bad about that setup fee but even that's recovered within a few months.
^keep in mind, you pay extra for the IP subnet and KVM requires extra config to work (routed).
Do you still have to pay the setup fee even if you cancel within 14 days?
This is something that I am at least not sure about. I guess not, but would be worth asking their support.
Hmm, true, they charge a lot for IP's and you need the Flexipack and all that. Well, NAT+ipv6 works for me, maybe not for everyone.