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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

I love hetzner.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I know this is a little off topic, but what's a good alternative to Backblaze?

I actually think BB are doing good things, ie with their harddrive reports, etc. But, still, I'd like to consider somewhere more local for my data...

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Back blaze does backups, right?

For back ups, I use a storage box in hetzner. Dirt cheap and then connect to it using Borg backup. Compresses and encrypts your data

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Yeah, backups... Ok, cool, I'd not looked at Hetzner storage boxes. Thanks

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I have literally never heard of any of those

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

That'll be the post doing it's job ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ˜‰

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I remember OVH being the preeminent server provider back in the early 2000s, before "the cloud" and the big American tech companies took over.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Still the biggest bare metal server provider in Europe as far as i understand, sadly their cloud offerings are still rather in their infancy

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

It's a good thing you posted this on a server hosted in the Netherlands...

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Most of the providers are targeting web hosting and general fairly constant load. We have bursts load and use queue based scaling in AWS. Does anyone know of any service that can do that?

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Anyone have experience with OVH? Is it good?

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

They had a fire and they used it to fuck their customers over, kept charging for services that were in the literal cloud for months, with no help from support.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

I have used them on on the tedomum.net matrix instance and it works great.

The website for the Quebec provincial party Parti Quรฉbรฉcois is hosted there.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

I have a few dedicated boxes, bit older but cheap and haven't had any issues for years.

[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 6 days ago

Not there yet is relative. They are missing some of the most complex features and services but for 90% of the applications they have what's needed.

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Hetzner is great and way cheaper than the big clouds. Managing your own servers is a great skill to develop, and youโ€™ll save tons of money too.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

I love the cost transparency. You will know exactly what the machine is going to cost for a month and will not end up with a surprising bill about logging just because you forgot to uncheck one checkbox.

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

Letโ€™s all get off those American servers!