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Okay, man, if you say so.
But just to bear in mind that it's not a special offer for LET. They simply point out their new product line and pricing, and then link to the page in question. Fine. Yes. Hetzner.
I'm not quite ready to drop to my knees, but I may be alone in this.
Yeah, that comparison won't work :P
I suspect you are in the minority certainly
Offer/marketing, w/e - actually doesn't matter how you want to term it. The point is that they're doing it here.
Edit: The fact it's here and not LEB is also, the lols.
For what it's worth, it is possible to get IPv6 working with these with various *BSDs.
If you go into the admin, there's even an OpenBSD 6.2 ISO image you can mount- which is good, because their network is a bit wonky and if you don't ping your link-local first, you won't get a route.
So, after you config your IP, send an ICMP to fe80::1%vio0, and make sure you do that in your reboot scripts, and it just works. Here's a compatible hostname.vio0:
Do I need one of these? No. For #2.50/mo with 2GB will I be keeping it? Probably.
Fine, they're doing it here (and elsewhere as well).
Actually, this is the more significant point.
Elsewhere is where else?
I assume my fate. Let the mob take me to the town square. ;-)
But, yes -- in case it wasn't clear -- I also find that it's a very attractive new product + pricing line.
But, also yes, impromptu without precedent.
Fine.
That will the mob of one, @Nekki
No custom ISO possible, I guess? :-( And no NetBSD? :-( And no Slackware? :-(
Looks like the mikrotik iso isn't fit for purpose. The IO drivers needed for this aren't included in the ISO so it fails to find a disk and won't run
No way to upload, yet, and you need better iPXE access to bring the network up than the default iPXE, since you need to throw ICMPs at your link-local. I tried a trivial iPXE-udnionly crossover for a single shot, and it didn't work, so I decided I'd follow up on it later.
No NetBSD; No Slackware. FreeBSD 11.1, OpenBSD 6.2, and a few other uncommon Linux distributions, but no way to upload your own ISO/et al.
Additional block storage would be cool.
Although the pricing is great, the management system is very rudimentary, and it seemed to ignore my ed25519 identity key; default install gave me an obfusicated root password instead.
That will change quickly enough, for a launch product it's a great start. SSH keys and snapshots alone are still further than Linode have come in 15 years.
Sure, it's better than what I'd launch with, but it's on par with @vmhaus, and those are 5 guys in a basement who share a keyboard, and a dream.
I'm not disappointed, but it's still kind of disappointing from a larger provider. I was pleasantly surprised for the 3 seconds I actually sat in their default Debian install is that it was the standard Hetznerized setup - same as on their actual hardware, because I did become somewhat accustomed to that.
pre- or postpaid? @Hetzner_OL
Postpaid.
It's all about the price/resource ratio for most though, I honestly see nobody touching them there. Give it a few months and I am certain that panel will develop quickly. Hetzner tend to go all in once they see a line is popular.
But that's precisely what they want: everyone to use a standardized Hetzner setup.
Seems so nice but will their pricing policy continue like that or are these only promotional prices?.. That's what I cannot decide.
@angstrom
Rules don't exist for the sake of rules but for the sake of the community. While I do see the importance of the rule "thou shall treat all providers equally" I also see the (implicit, unwritten) rule "If someone makes nuggets of gold rain down on the land, though shall make sure that each and everyone in the land knoweth about it".
What @Hetzner_OL did there is just fucking amazing! And I think it's well deserved and makes sense for 99.99% of LETers to find it at a prominent position on page 1.
@Lee
2G/20G/20TB for #2.50? You'd have to be insane to think you could compete with that.
Hell, NetCup VPS is 1G/20G/20TB for #2.99, with a year commitment.
I'm more comfortable with how strong CCP is for management than this Web 3.0 pretty thing, but this also has the ability to setup native grouping for new VPS so you can clickyclicky like Windows/Finder, and I'm sure more will come from that. My only real gripe is that their network is still quirky, and the miner fucks have completely depleted the affordable i7s.
Indeed, there are options out there, and also agreed that their network can be somewhat lumpy however I can forgive that in providers I have a preference for.
You're talking about just the first post. The rest of the thread is wide-ranging community participation. That makes it a discussion thread rather than just an offer thread. As such, non-sinking is the right thing.
Fwiw, there's a Hacker News thread where Katie is also posting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16212299
It's mostly higher-end (i.e. AWS) users there, not much new info in the HN thread that we don't have here, but a different perspective at times.
In general, since I try to acknowledge when I've missed something, I'll concede that I had missed that this is @Hetzner_OL's very first thread on LET, so I agree that this is somehow significant.
@Hetzner_OL Do you also do phone verifications for german customers?
Can we make it a sticky thread? Let's not stop short.
nng.. almost.. *almost there*..
Maybe put it in Featured Threads instead of leaving it in Offers?
Thanks for the link.
"nnginx"?
(You can't have high expectations from a NetBSD user.)