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Would you like to see Hetzner offer cheap DirectAdmin licenses?
So, folks...
Tell @Hetzner_OL if you would like to see Hetzner offer DirectAdmin licenses (preferably cheaper than buying direct) with their server offerings, please kindly cast your vote now!
This all goes back to @emgh's idea. All credits to him. He's great and smells good.
Hetzner & Directadmin
- Would you like Hetzner to offer DirectAdmin licenses?143 votes
- Hell! Yeah! Please!79.72%
- I am grumpy and my parents did not love me enough!20.28%
Comments
Hetzner + DA + Singapore expansion kthx.
They have Plesk licenses as far as i know.
I offer DA on my Hetzer VPS offerings
but I agree it would be nice, I know for a fact hetzner could make an amazing deal with DA and get their cost price down massively and if anything like others could offer it free.
Hand me the credit for the idea maybe, handsome?
Edit: and free for their cloud line. That's my idea.
Added. Fucked up the poll. However. Added.
Well the votes are better now then before so wise either way. Thank you mister.
I would like to see it, but I am also grumpy and my parents did not love me enough.
Vote both.
$0.07/month tks.
Sorry for jumping here, BUUUUUT, I do have internal pricing (not for free as Francisco
), and will be reselling Hetzner Cloud VPS'es as those rock and we're fans. The Internal License will cost 5€, where for Dedicateds it costs 19€, not sure if that's good enough tho.
I'm pretty sure Hetzner could just get those for free like Fran does. :P
Same pricing i have
expect its $5/m for VPS and $14/m for dedicated or am i mistaken
Correct, sorry, should be 14€, we're offering it close to the cost. My apologies.
Clarify that. You are reselling Hetzner's own cloud service and that qualifies for an internal DA licence?
If you have legitimate business (registered LTD or smth.) than you can sell internal licenses.
As per their website:
YES! I need this in my life.
I think that apart from Singapore what would higher their revenue would the US as well. New York on Hetzner would be impressive. Not that I'd use it, I mainly use EU locations, but it's a huge market and their offerings would be competitive in the US as well. If they can make it work that is.
Hell yeah... but also the second choice! Could we also get one of those perfume samples in the mail with every license?
If you want a perfume sample with your VPS you have to go with cociu not Hetzner.
Yeah, you may.
I don't understand why buy cloud servers from a reseller instead of direct, but if it works for you then great.
$5/m is much more than I would pay for DA, especially on a 2.49 euro/m cloud vps. If they do a $7/year lite license that might be of interest.
If Hetzner offers it for free it must still be driving up their internal costs somehow, that gets reflected in VM pricing. In that case I'd be ok with Hetzner offering it for free if it costs end users up to a few cents per month per VM. Otherwise I'd vote against it, if this were a vote.
It might make some sense to offer one of the FOSS control panels in one of their standard templates. I'm sure some users could benefit from that.
DA is worth more than 5 USD/mo, trust me. ;P
When you put it like that, but is a control panel worth twice the price of the VM?
Such a comparison doesn't make sense. Hetzner is cheap, as is DA.
I'm sure plenty of people are running cPanel on Hetzner and it surely costs much more than the VPS.
I don't understand this. Maybe a very few users are paying for cpanel on small vps. It could make more sense on their very large vps that are used for hosting or whatever, but then the costs balance out more.
I've used cpanel and it's nice but I wouldn't personally pay $5/month for it. I haven't used DA but can't imagine what it could do that would make it so much better than cpanel.
These costs are too high by at least 10x. I don't understand why people here are treating DA like some kind of saviour that we should all be sacrificing to. Nothing against the product or the company but it's just another proprietary software package that most of us don't have much use for, and for which there are FOSS substitutes (maybe not as good) available for those who want a panel at all. If I wanted a panel I'd try VestaCP first and see what kind of shortcomings it has, and maybe fix them. I know cpanel and DA have more features, but I'm not a sophisticated enough panel user to know what they are, and I probably don't care about them.
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It all depends on what the user needs/wants. On a bigger instance, it may just be worth moving to a Dedicated Server, more CPU, RAM, IO and disk space.
There's plenty of market for such products, and I welcome any company to offer their product - it's the right time for that. You may not need it, but many other people do.
Edit: I do agree that reselling VPS doesn't make much sense. I'm planning on getting a node soon, if things work out!
Or if I'm unable to resist.
Oh, i was referring to a @emgh sample. wink
Here you go. https://liquidmoney.com/products/his-money.
Exactly. I don't need it, and frankly nobody really needs it. So why should I pay to subsidize licenses for people who want them? That's what I think this proposal is about (Hetzner buying some giant DA license that lets them offer free DA instances to their cloud users). Of course a pass-through deal from Hetzner or anyone else that let people buy their own licenses at a discount would be perfectly fine. I wouldn't pay anywhere near $5/month for it myself, but other people would, and I'd possibly consider it if the price was low enough (like 1/10th of that).
Big cloud instances do have attractions over dedis, fwiw. The host does more of the management for you, you can spin them up and down and resize them on demand, they offer replicated disks (Ceph) so they can auto-migrate from crashed host nodes, etc. That's why AWS, GCP, etc. get so much business. For my purposes I'm satisfied with dedis but I'd consider replacing them with cloud instances if my requirements and budget were a bit different.
Pretty dodgy to be honest, but oh well.