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Hetzner announces price hike for cloud servers and bandwidth cut of up to 95% (gigazine.net)
submitted 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours 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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[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 0 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Cheap, thanks :)

[–] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 6 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Thats expensive

With a very nieche benefit. I doubt that one core can chug enough to make any significant bandwith

[–] iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 50 minutes ago* (last edited 27 minutes ago) (1 children)

~~$1~~ $2 per month is expensive? 🤣

[edit: I can't do simple math]

[–] Zeoic@lemmy.world 1 points 36 minutes ago

Well the cheapest there is $2/month, but yeah for a single core I dont think I would be worth the effort to setup, let alone also pay for