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Hetzner - Aruba Price Comparison. What's the catch?
sreekanth850
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Currently i use Aruba Cloud for couple of my projects and i never had any issues with them. I just got verified with hetzner today and started playing with the cloud console, but when i compared the specs and pricing with Aruba its not that better anyway.
Here's the comparison.
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If you are happy why do you want to change your provider?
Never change a running system until there are security concerns
I have some system running with ovh too.
Not changing but planning to test hetzner so that i can have a redundancy if anything goes wrong with existing setup.
I have no experience with Aruba Cloud, but the Hetzner Cloud servers have always done a great job for me.
In my opinion, you can't do much wrong with Hetzner.
Thanks for the input. Will spin up an instance and play with it to know how it goes for me.
i don't understand how you could compare specs based on a paper sheet - what did you compare exactly?
2 cores of good shared with good people > 20 cores of shit shared with shitheads
What makes you so much offended? I just plainly asked whats the catch. I had been using aruba for quote a time. So you are basically saying hetzner is some holy place and aruba is some shit place in which all users are shit heads? So I decided to Test Hetzner and here goes the comparison result. I never use to bash people, or don't want to prove anything, but for the response i got, i thought i will just see it myself.
Hetzner CX 21 Intel 2 CPU Shared with good people, 4GB Ram . 5.35 Euro Per month
Aruba 6.29 Euro Per month. And As per you the 2 AMD Core Shared with Shit heads, and 4GB ram. Took this month back when i created new instance.
A few years back I had a VPS with ArubaCloud for quite a time; until I decided to get rid of some idlers.
It basically worked fine, support was okay, couldn't complain, but comparable to many other competitors and probably not significantly better.
In the end it's the best to try it out yourself and gather your own experiences how it works for you and your use cases.
At least I wouldn't say anything from my experience which should stop you from testing it. But I wouldn't make a final decision ahead without some testing; I mean real testing, not only YABS numbers.
I don't think that @emgh is necessarily offended, but at the same time, it's not so clear why you asked "What's the catch?". Why do you think that there's a catch somewhere? Perhaps there's no catch at all
Completely agree this. I had startwd testing it.
Clearification: not offended currently
Was trying hetzner for verification more than 3 times and they plainly rejected. Then today suddenly got verified. But was not sure if i need to spin up a server, as I had went with aruba for the project which i planned to use hetzner. So before spinning up an instance I thought I shall ask. Becoz first thing we compare is spec and pricing. When I did so I didn't see a difference but some slight pros and cons like private network and firewall. Its always better to see different perspective and opinions from long time users.
It seems Aruba is cheaper and has better performance on larger plans as shown in the OP’s screenshots and yabs test. However Hetzner wins at lower plans like 2GB, 4GB because they’re cheaper.
I think the biggest difference is hourly billing vs monthly billing where Hetzner wins. Based on the application one is building, this might be a game changer.
If you want the same hourly billing in Aruba, prepare to pay 3X more than Hetzner. You cannot build an app or let’s say a K8s with Aruba with these prices. It wouldn’t make sense while there’s Hetzner with everything you need for cheaper prices.
If you had given this background without "What's the catch?", I think that your question would have been clearer
It's pretty well-known that the Hetzner verification process can be a bit of a pain if they don't accept one right away
Yeah I should had written this.
Yes Valid points. They don't have private network, and Load balancers on their basic vps plans. But they have more bandwidth. Their Cloud pro plans has to compare with hetzners dedicated cpu plans. In that, they have hourly billing, load balancers, and private network. But let me test hetzner myself for a month. My plan is exactly as you said, tp use their hourly billing for testing something and also use them as a redundant option if something messed up with aruba. Another feature in aruba's premium offering is Redundant hardware which I didnt see in hetzner feature list.
Please note that yabs for hetzner shows geekbench 5, while aruba shows geekbench 6 which gives higher score
It would be better if same test is done on both
Will do this.
GB 6