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Hetzner announces price hike for cloud servers and bandwidth cut of up to 95% (gigazine.net)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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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[–] solrize@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

That article is almost 4 months old and yeah, the internet in EU is better than in the US. But you can get US plans with plenty of bandwidth. I've been happy with buyvm.net and there are many others. Hang out on lowendspirit.com for a while to get a sense of things.