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Hetzner announces price hike for cloud servers and bandwidth cut of up to 95% (gigazine.net)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Apparently US bandwidth was reduced to 1TB for their base plan, though they have 20TB for the same plan in Europe. I don't use much bandwidth right now, but I could need more in the future depending on how I do backups and whatnot.

So I'm shopping around in case I need to make a switch. Here's what I use it for:

VPN to get around CGNAT - so all traffic for my internal services goes through it
HAProxy - forwards traffic to my various services
small test servers - very low requirements, basically just STUN servers
low traffic blog

Hard requirements:

custom ISO, or at least openSUSE support
inexpensive - shooting for ~$5/month, I don't need much
decent bandwidth (bare minimum 50mbps, ideally 1gbps+), with high-ish caps - I won't use much data most of the time (handful of GB), but occasionally might use 2-5TB

Nice to have:

unmetered/generous bandwidth - would like to run a Tor relay
inexpensive storage - need to put my offsite backups somewhere
API - I'm a nerd and like automating things :)
location near me - I'm in the US, so anywhere in NA works

Not needed:

fast processors
lots of RAM
loose policies around torrenting and processing (no crypto or piracy here)
support features, recipes, etc - I can figure stuff out on my own

I'll probably stick with Hetzner for now because:

pricing is still fair (transfer is in line with competitors)
can probably move my server to Germany w/o major issues for more bandwidth
they hit all of the other requirements, nice to haves, and many unneeded features

Anyway, thoughts? The bandwidth change pisses me off, so let me know if there's a better alternative.

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[–] nesc@lemmy.cafe 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ovh has everything (i think) mentioned, they also have inexpensive baremetal servers. They also have shitty ui. 😄

[–] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And terrible, archaic, chaotic practices such as activating your 2FA without permission and then locking you out of your account for weeks pending multiple signed paper letters. Oh, and sometimes their datacenters burn down and take your server with them. I'm sad to have to throw them under the bus like this. I want OVH to succeed but personally my patience with them definitively ran out.

[–] nesc@lemmy.cafe 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well it not like they burn constantly they only burned ~~once~~ twice! As for the 2fa problem, I've missed it because it was activated already. They are mostly okay now, I think my company lost a few millions when they burned (all our infrastructure was there).

[–] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Well that puts the loss of my little VPS into perspective.