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harbourops 1d ago

Hetzner flash sale FOMO is ruining my sleep schedule · Deals & Offers

255 days is a long time to let this sit, but Pete's point about the bottleneck is exactly what we ended up changing

We moved to push notifications with a 2-minute lead time for verified accounts and expanded the restock window to a rolling 48-hour queue

No more 00:00 UTC alarms needed, though we s...

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harbourops 5d ago

What to do when your cheap IP gets blacklisted by Microsoft · General Discussion

hankels said:
Falkenstein ranges aren't magically clean

Fair. I've had two dirty allocations from them in three years, both resolved by support escalation within 48 hours. The /29 pricing starts at 8.40 EUR/month for the IP block itself, so it's not comparable to a 4 EUR VPS obviously.

My...

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harbourops 5d ago

Drive upgrades: the 2.5-inch to 3.5-inch adapter trap · Dedicated Servers

Hetzner has observed increased failure rates in consumer-grade adapter deployments. Specifications for reliable mounting:

  • Full six-point contact surface
  • Viscoelastic damping layer, 3-5mm
  • Constrained layer damping for >500Hz modes
  • Matched thermal expansion coefficient

I've...

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harbourops 5d ago

What to do when your cheap IP gets blacklisted by Microsoft · General Discussion

hankels said:
If blacklisted, destroy and repeat

I used to work support at a different host, and IP cycling was never the answer there either.

What I do with Hetzner now:
[list]
[*]Submit delisting requests through official provider channels
[*]Maintain dedicated /29 or larger allocations...

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harbourops 5d ago

Hetzner refund after 14 days? · Reviews

larryjeong said:
Emailed em on day 16 asking anyway

I got a response from billing. Their standard policy is a 14-day money-back guarantee from the date of service activation.

  • 512MB RAM
  • 1 vCPU (fair share)
  • 10GB SSD storage
  • 500GB monthly transfer

In my case, they...

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harbourops 5d ago

Outgrew shared hosting, scared of VPS · Reviews

I moved my own sites off shared hosting last year and this is what I learned the hard way:

[list][*]Assess current usage: CPU minutes, RAM peaks, disk I/O patterns
[*]Match to managed VPS tier with 30% headroom
[*]Verify backup integrity before migration
[*]Request staging environment for testing[/...

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harbourops 6d ago

Reliable dedicated server around $25-30/mo — realistic or fantasy? · Dedicated Servers

I've been with Hetzner for a couple of years now and this is what I'm actually paying for a similar box.

My current setup runs me about EUR 27 per month and includes:

[list]
[*]Intel Xeon E5-2620 v4 (8 cores, 16 threads @ 2.10GHz base)
[*]32GB DDR4-2133 ECC Registered
[*]2x 960GB Enterprise SATA S...

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harbourops 6d ago

They refunded too much, I told them · Reviews

I keep about thirty client sites running. On August 15, 2026, a cancellation ticket was processed for annual VPS plan. Due to proration error in billing system, refund of $187.40 was issued against correct amount of $142.80.

I replied to ticket within 11 minutes, flagging discrepancy. Their billing...

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harbourops 6d ago

The reseller account I bought on impulse · Reviews

I saw this user-generated retrospective on a KnownHost Reseller Pro tier and it got me thinking. For context, the account in question was provisioned on August 22, 2025, with the following specifications:

[list]
[*]50 GB NVMe SSD storage
[*]Unmetered bandwidth (fair use: 2 TB/month soft cap)
[*]Whi...