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Hetzner Ashburn VPS. Do you use it? Is it good?
I'm considering using Hetzner cloud in Ashburn for a project in production for a nonprofit. Do you like this service? If you use it, why?
If not @Hetzner_OL, I'd probably go with @Clouvider. I've used Clouvider in Ashburn and know it's good. I haven't used Hetzner outside Europe. I wonder what people think about their network in Ashburn. I'm guessing not as good as Clouvider?
I'm specifically eyeing CCX13, the cheapest of the dedicated vCPU line. Though, I'm interested in impressions of their US services more generally in the aftermath of the 2024 price increase.
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Hetzner cloud in Ashburn is great. I run my own website on a large AMD VM there so it's off of my own infra. Highly recommend if in your budget. If you want any tests ran DM me.
You can try it for free on the Caasify platform.
Network-wise, Hetzner is likely slightly better than Clouvider, but Clouvider has been flawless for me in Ashburn, so I would say, go for which one is cheaper
Hetzner Cloud does not offer the best deal, but they've always been reliable and their control panel is great. Their network is solid.
I don't know about their network (haven't looked in-depth), or their dedicated cloud servers specifically.
But I have been running a project on a few CPX11's there for a few years now (since late 2021), and they all sit behind one of their managed load balancers as well. Has been very stable for me.
Thanks all. I'll go for it.
Hetzner's Ashburn network is really well-done and reliable, they colocate which may be why the included bandwidth is lower than their owned DCs in Europe and the instance price is higher, the bandwidth overage is "only" 1eur/TB which is very good compared to other major clouds but not quite lowend if you have a lot of traffic. The dedicated CPU servers are a lot more expensive than the shared ones so only go with them if you're sure you're going to use basically all of the CPU power.
When the machine is powered off you can switch to any plan with the same or more disk (+ opt to keep disk size when upgrading to allow for downgrade) and even switch between shared and dedicated, this takes a few minutes. If you are done with the server for a while you can create a snapshot and then delete it, the IP can be reattached to a new instance created from the snapshot if you want it back. You can also switch primary IPs when powered off, or add secondary IPs when powered on. Disk can be extended with volumes, these are usually better value than increasing instance type if you only need more disk, but you can't snapshot a volume and they get expensive fast if you need lots of storage.
Hetzner and Clouvider are both solid options in Ashburn, you can't go wrong with either.
I used to have one production node on Hetzner's Ashburn DC and I was happy about its performance and reliability, I switched it to one node on Clouvider's Ashburn DC only because it was cheaper and I wasn't really using the features of Hetzner's cloud.
We do the same, and in Ashburn only. Been nothing short of great!
That makes sense. I was looking at Hetzner cloud because I think those features will be useful this time.
01:32:40 up 189 daysNothing to complain but the price is not very attractive.