marchmares

Hetzner is fine if you want a German or Finnish IP. Not everyone does.

Geekbench is a toy. I run STREAM and LMbench on anything before I pay for a year upfront. Memory bandwidth is where they get you. "Power" tier with DDR4-2133 performs like DDR3 on the right workloads.

I just pay for remote hands through my colo provider. $75/hour, minimum one hour. Expensive but I sleep. Different model than CloudCone I guess.

Free tier | grep "free" | sed 's/free/expensive/g' | the bill arrives | sort -u | wc -l | one very angry email | aws support pipeline | denied | next pipe | cost explorer | lessons learned | the hard way | always

Has anyone tested whether the search respects the "infrastructure" subforum scope? I searched for "RAID" and got results from marketplace.

Has anyone actually tested the "community forums" vs "15 minute response" difference in practice? I opened a Cloudflare support ticket as free user last month, got a human in 4 hours. My KnownHost ticket took 22 minutes. Both solved the problem in one reply.

Not saying the gap doesnt exist, just th...

This thread saved me from a mistake. Was literally in checkout for Contabo 7950X. Going Hetzner AX102 instead. Thanks all.

What about Cloudflare paid tiers? Is the extra control worth it over jumping to OVHcloud?