However,
- They have two data center locations, both in Germany, which might be good or bad depending on how view the laws.
- Their web interface looks good too, but doesn't have the features that DO provides.
- Depending on what option you pick, some have commodity hardware (No ECC RAM, i7 processors instead of server hardware).
- [Rumor]I've heard that they are very hands off, and will take down your instance much more aggressively. As someone on reddit put it, "If Disney was a cloud provider, anything Disney won't be comfortable to host, Hetzner won't."
I had a DO NTP server for a brief time, but the latency was all over the map, so much so that it was continually pulled out of rotation by the pool. I wasn't sure if my VM happened to be on an oversubscribed host or maybe the network to that datacenter was oversubscribed, but in either case my NTP server wasn't usable, so I decommissioned my DO server.
> Will you add additional locations in different geographic regions?
> We are actively looking into this option right now.
It's also really easy to install yourself. They've done a great job on it all around. If you have a blog, give it a shot. It's not a WordPress replacement if you use tons of plugins but it's great writing software.
It's also really easy to theme.