Hetzner waives setup fees for some servers in July

[willie]

http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/news/viertelfinale-root-server-ex-line-ohne-setupgebuehr

http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver

Supposedly a July-only promotion celebrating Germany making it to the World Cup quarter finals.  They have cancelled the setup fees for a number of the PX and EX series dedi servers.  I don't have any servers with them right now but I've been thinking of moving my stuff from OVH to them, due to Hetzner offering more disk space at a given price and cpu performance level.  I think even with these new offers though, their best midrange deals are from their online auction, though prices there have actually nudged upwards in the past month or two:

https://robot.your-server.de/order/market

 

[Nett]

Awesome, might give them a try.

 

[Sunshine]

Thanks for the info.

But you should be aware that, although they might suit some purposes just fine, their network quality is not very good. Packet loss is a common issue.
 

 

[DomainBop]

their best midrange deals are from their online auction,

word of advice: avoid the deals with the 1.5TB Seagate HD's that are on their last legs and go for the ones with newer 2GB or 3GB drives.  They do offer a 14 day money back guarantee though if you get a dud.

Packet loss is a common issue.

I've been lucky and haven't experienced any packet loss recently  (current servers in DC19) but they did have some issues that affected some people a few months ago

 

[blergh]

Haven't used Hetzner in recent years, had major issues with IP-pricing and slow support (it was OK/superb 4-5 years ago). Last time i tried to use Hetzner i ordered a box from their serverbidding-site where the spec's of the box i got didn't match the spec's of the box i ordered.

 

[willie]

word of advice: avoid the deals with the 1.5TB Seagate HD's that are on their last legs and go for the ones with newer 2GB or 3GB drives.  They do offer a 14 day money back guarantee though if you get a dud.

I've been lucky and haven't experienced any packet loss recently  (current servers in DC19) but they did have some issues that affected some people a few months ago

Thanks.  I'm not too concerned about the network as long as it basically works most of the time.  I'd be using the i7-2600 with 2x 3TB drives.  Comparable OVH servers have 2x 2TB and mine is just about completely full but not increasing fast enough to justify adding a second server.

 

[sundaymouse]

what will happen if Germany ends up winning this world cup?

 

[RLT]

They'll. Triple the charges.