I recently got one of these for a LAMP project and I'm regretting not having done it way before:
- They entirely manage the server, including the services running on it; updates, keeping them up etc.
- The specs are mouth-watering: 54 eur/month for 8 core VM, 139 EUR/month for 16 core (32 thread - vCPU) dedicated, 199 eur/month for 32 core 64 thread dedicated, etc. (may be cheaper for those not from the Eu because they won't pay VAT)
- You can create as many sites/apps on the server as you want (they give you a panel)
- They give you SSH access for individual accounts, with which you can do a lot of stuff
- Managed Redis specific to each account included
I benchmarked a simple PHP api on this that does 2 reads and a write from a mysql db, and it was able to pull off 900+ requests/sec at 900 concurrency. All requests were completed under ~500 ms. (gotta add to this 50 ms more for benchmarks from outside Hetzner network).
So far, I'm pretty surprised that few people seem to talk about this. Is there a catch?
Also, there seems to be a HA MySQL setup behind it: When you create a db user for a site/app, it creates r/w and read-only users that can be used separately. So in a way, Hetzner does seem to have that managed HA dn service that many people have been waiting for. Except it seems to be hidden behind the managed servers yet...
- They entirely manage the server, including the services running on it; updates, keeping them up etc.
- The specs are mouth-watering: 54 eur/month for 8 core VM, 139 EUR/month for 16 core (32 thread - vCPU) dedicated, 199 eur/month for 32 core 64 thread dedicated, etc. (may be cheaper for those not from the Eu because they won't pay VAT)
- You can create as many sites/apps on the server as you want (they give you a panel)
- They give you SSH access for individual accounts, with which you can do a lot of stuff
- Managed Redis specific to each account included
I benchmarked a simple PHP api on this that does 2 reads and a write from a mysql db, and it was able to pull off 900+ requests/sec at 900 concurrency. All requests were completed under ~500 ms. (gotta add to this 50 ms more for benchmarks from outside Hetzner network).
So far, I'm pretty surprised that few people seem to talk about this. Is there a catch?