[url]http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/eq4/[/url]
Found this in a magazine.
That is an insanely low price for that hardware, and besides the set up fee, I'm thinking there must be a catch.
Hetzner claim to be the largest German datacenter operator, and I'm wondering if owning their own datacenters allows them to reduce the price, but other then that I don't know.
Has anyone had any experience with Hetzner who would be able to give a review on their support and service? Or can anyone else spot a catch with this?
"Once-off Setup fee 149 €"
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It sounds too good to be true and it is. :D
Old.
They always had great deals and they supposedly have a good support, especially for the price, way better than most el-cheapo hosters.
The catch are the high upgrade fees (Flexi-Pack, IPs, KVM etc.)
Haven't had any experience with them though, and there are a few negative reviews.
Yeah I mentioned the set up fee. But even the set up fee isn't that much of a catch; for a long term user, we'd pay that off versus our current package in 6 months, and after then be saving a considerable amount of money. There must be something else.
Also come on, 149€ setup fee is bearable for such great hardware, and 19% VAT is required in Germany. They have no other choice than to charge for it.
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Broke my automerge :argh:
Mind linking me to these reviews DrTaxi?
Sorry, don't have them right now, and they're German, but I might translate them later.
Okay, thanks
Holy fucking shit this deal is amazing.
Presumably.
If i hadn't wasted every last penny not so long ago i'd get on with this.
We ordered a box from Hetzner about 2 months back. We're still waiting for the box. They asked for ID, so we sent it, and then got nothing back. We queried them on it a week or two back and they said they never received it. We're still waiting.
Edit: There really isn't a catch to that plan other than the absurd setup fee. They'll even not charge you for bandwidth overages, if you go over your limit then they'll just rate-limit your port.
Though not getting your server is a pretty big catch, the support doesn't sound fantastic.
[QUOTE=TrueNash;18402722]Though not getting your server is a pretty big catch, the support doesn't sound fantastic.[/QUOTE]
If you can get a box, I'm told the support is pretty good.
[QUOTE=Hexxeh;18402282]They'll even not charge you for bandwidth overages, if you go over your limit then they'll just rate-limit your port.[/QUOTE]
I think the port will stay rate-limited until you pay for the extra traffic though, not just until the next month.
(At least it was like that when I asked them a few months ago, but I think they had a different limit and description of the limit back then, definitely other (older) servers)
[QUOTE=DrTaxi;18403788]I think the port will stay rate-limited until you pay for the extra traffic though, not just until the next month.
(At least it was like that when I asked them a few months ago, but I think they had a different limit and description of the limit back then, definitely other (older) servers)[/QUOTE]
I'm fairly sure it's just for that month?
As I said, I asked them and they said for the whole time, I don't have the reply mail anymore though, so you'd have to ask them yourself.
I bet they're making a Bill Gates on this.
11.5GB of bandwidth doesn't sound too good to me...
[QUOTE=rieda1589;18419584]11.5GB of bandwidth doesn't sound too good to me...[/QUOTE]
Where the hell does it say 11.5 GB of bandwidth?
[QUOTE=DrTaxi;18419663]Where the hell does it say 11.5 GB of bandwidth?[/QUOTE]
Nowhere :ninja:
It says 92GBit, which is 11.5GByte
[QUOTE=rieda1589;18422739]It says 92GBit, which is 11.5GByte[/QUOTE]
It refers to their connectivity. As in, they can theoretically push 11.5 gigabytes of data in/out of their network every second. You get 2TB of bandwidth.
[QUOTE=Hexxeh;18422809]It refers to their connectivity. As in, they can theoretically push 11.5 gigabytes of data in/out of their network every second. You get 2TB of bandwidth.[/QUOTE]
So what's "100 MBit Fast-Ethernet-Uplink to Switch" and "High Speed Access to all Internet-Uplinks"?
That means that your server gets a 100mbit/s uplink to one of their switches (but they do not tell us how much bandwidth each of these switches gets)
Then doesn't that 100mbit/s to the switches limit the total amount the single server can push regardless of the switch's bandwith?
[QUOTE=Agent766;18438744]Then doesn't that 100mbit/s to the switches limit the total amount the single server can push regardless of the switch's bandwith?[/QUOTE]
That is true for most other services where you are renting an entire box.
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Except if they have Gigabit links where they might just artificially restrict if you are paying for 100mbit bandwidth.
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