Comment by andix
3 years ago
I love Hetzner Cloud, it’s similar to Digital Ocean, but the performance is much better. Funnily it’s cheaper too.
There are just two things I’m missing:
- snapshots for volumes!!!
- restricting the dns api token (I don’t want to give one acme solver full access to 20+ domains)
+1 for more restrictions on DNS API tokens. Ways to mitigate the riscs:
The way they communicate is better too. Both companies increased their prices in the past year. DigitalOcean announced[0] theirs in an article that mainly focused on a new cheaper droplet supplemented by lots of useless text about how they “ adapt our offerings to meet the needs of our customers and their desire to create software that changes the world.”
The link to the page with the new prices didn’t have some overview of the changes, and figuring out how much more I was going to pay was frustratingly hard.
Hetzner’s article[1] just clearly explained why they increased their prices and had a table with the new prices.
I really appreciate that no-bs way of communicating.
[0] https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/new-4-dollar-droplet-updat...
[1] https://docs.hetzner.com/general/others/price-adjustment/
I completely moved away from DO, because most IPs I got were in some blacklists. And some smaller providers completely blocked the IPs of those networks.
So I had customers who weren’t able to visit my website hosted on DO. Their provider refused to unblock the IP range, because there were a lot of attacks coming from there. DO doesn’t seem to care a lot about reputation.
Not a customer of either but it's very interesting what you're saying in the context of all comments here complaining about not being allowed to open accounts on Hetzner. Maybe their extreme vetting requirements are actually paying off.
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