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Tallinn perspective: EU regulations say I must report availability to clients. I report what I measure, not what I pay for. This caused problem.

I paid Hetzner 99.99%, measured 99.97%, reported 99.97% to client. Client asked why below SLA. I showed Hetzner's own status page — https://status.hetzner...

I'm in Tallinn running mostly Hetzner Helsinki and some local Estnoc gear. For my size — 8 boxes — I use Terraform for provisioning and cloud-init to drop a standardized nftables config. The cloud-init part means even if someone reinstalls from rescue, the firewall comes back identical. Not sure if...

This is not a marketplace. Take pricing discussion to DMs.

I have 47 VPS and I back them all up to each other in a mesh. If any three die I still have 44. This is probably stupid but it has worked so far.

I am in Tallinn and I use Hetzner Helsinki. 5ms away, beautiful. One planned maintenance in 18 months, 8 minutes, announced 10 days ahead. I have a Ryzen 9 7950X dedicated there for game server hosting. The players notice 8 minutes.

I also have a Contabo VPS in Nuremberg for backups. It has been fi...

I run a small hosting comparison site from Tallinn. The IPv6 correlation is real in our data. Providers with working v6 have 40% fewer "unexpected" outages in our monitoring.

But also: check if their RIPE handle matches their company name. If it's "PRIVATE" or some reseller tag, you're not their cu...

Estonian perspective: we have good local providers like Zone.ee with reasonable ticket times and no live chat. I also use Hetzner for some things.

I think in EU the consumer protection is strong enough that even cheap providers must answer eventually, so the "2x for support" premium is smaller here...