ASN reputation means nothing when your actual support ticket sits unread for 72 hours. I will take OVHcloud's documented 5 TB and a phone line I can shout into.
Hetzner "unmetered" - anyone burned yet?
FyreJun
Member
OVHcloud phone support is a myth in Japan timezone. I have never reached a human. Hetzner ticket answered in 4 hours at 3 AM JST.
Brenda
Member
In Istanbul we get VAT mess with all of them. OVHcloud bills me in EUR from France, Hetzner bills EUR from Germany, same headache at the bank. Contabo at least has a Turkish reseller that handles the local tax.
jihoonred86 said:
Falkenstein to Seoul latency 220 ms stable.
220 ms is not stable, it is physics. My solar setup in Lisbon hits Hetzner Nuremberg at 45 ms. The unmetered part matters less when you are pushing backups overnight anyway.
beto60
Member
Contabo "unmetered" in Sao Paulo location is 200 Mbps throttled after 32 TB. I asked support in Portuguese, they admitted in email. Honest but slow.
This thread drifted from Hetzner to Contabo to OVHcloud. Classic.
I run Django on Hetzner CPX11 in Singapore. 4 EUR, unmetered, never hit a wall. Four servers, all cheap, all actually up. RackNerd was cheaper and worse, always some node oversold.
haroldgsm said:
Twenty years watching this dance
You pay for your own servers, you said. Colo or dedicated? Because if you are in a real datacenter you are not unmetered anywhere, you are 95th percentile on a commit.
tansite said:
Colo or dedicated?
Colo in Columbus. 1 Gbps commit, 80 EUR/month for the cross-connect alone before I push a bit. That is why I know "unmetered" at 4 EUR is a loss leader. Somebody is subsidizing it.
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danfra
Member
The subsidy is oversubscription ratio. Hetzner runs 10:1 on cloud, maybe worse. Not evil, just math. I have seen their anycast handle 2 Tbps scrubbing in Frankfurt. They can absorb spikes. Sustained 45 TB from one VM? Different question.
mitigated 800Gbps before breakfast