Hetzner continues its growth in the US with a new location

Re:Hetzner continues its growth in the US with a new location by chocolatkey on Monday December 05, 2022 @05:39AM (#33863804)

Very happy about this as a long-time Hetzner dedicated and cloud customer. The only "issue" I've had with cloud is the lack of video memory due to the virtualized environment they run in, but that's a special case because I'm running a custom Windows server install due to Adobe products, which is not officially supported. I await the day they add object storage to the mix, then my (hosting) life will be complete.

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Re:Hetzner continues its growth in the US with a new location by Hetzner_OL on Monday December 05, 2022 @05:43AM (#33863849)

Object storage is, indeed, very high up on the list of hoped-for items on our customer wish list for cloud products. I can add a +1 to that for you and send it onto the dev team. As always, we don't announce roadmaps of upcoming features and when they will be ready. We prefer to announce things when they go live -- just like today! --Katie

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Re:Hetzner continues its growth in the US with a new location by dhdgrygev on Monday December 05, 2022 @05:46AM (#33863880)

You've been saying this for several years, and yet there is still no object storage. It's getting to the point where it seems more realistic to believe that it will never happen.

Very happy with both the cloud and dedicated servers, but it's weird how bad the communication is on the object storage thing. If it's not going to happen, why not say so?

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Re:Hetzner continues its growth in the US with a new location by config_yml on Monday December 05, 2022 @05:58AM (#33863965)

I wouldn't hold your breath for this. I think Hetzner wants to stick to compute offerings, they don't have the manpower to run managed services like object storage or databases.

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Re:Hetzner continues its growth in the US with a new location by christophilus on Monday December 05, 2022 @06:22AM (#33864139)

I'm personally fine with this, if it allows them to continue offering such solid value.

Wasabi is a great, inexpensive object store for anyone who's looking for that. I've had a really good experience with them (we have a little over 80TB of data there), and have found their support to be top-notch especially when you consider the price.

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Re:Hetzner continues its growth in the US with a new location by harrymit907 on Monday December 05, 2022 @07:03AM (#33864450)

+1 to Wasabi. They are the only reason I was able to launch my product which wouldn't have been feasible on S3 or other providers just based on the storage and the API cost.

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Re:Hetzner continues its growth in the US with a new location by andix on Monday December 05, 2022 @07:26AM (#33864700)

They could probably even outsource that service to some storage solution provider. They just need to have the servers located on site at Hetzner.

It wouldn’t even needed to be integrated to their API and billing.

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Re:Hetzner continues its growth in the US with a new location by andix on Monday December 05, 2022 @07:24AM (#33864668)

And snapshotting for volumes!

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Re:Hetzner continues its growth in the US with a new location by rglullis on Monday December 05, 2022 @06:03AM (#33864006)

I mentioned it yesterday, but I will mention it again... take a look at Storj. [0].

Storj pricing is basically unbeatable. $4/TB/month, $7/TB/month for egress bandwidth which (I heard, yet to try) can be saved further if you put something like cloudflare in front of your bucket.

Speaking as someone who set up their own minio cluster (on Hetzner) as a way to have object storage at the lowest cost possible, if Storj was an option 3 years ago, I would have saved me quite a bit of money and time.

[0]: https://storj.io

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