Looking for honest comparison of these three budget panels

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Hetzner vs InterServer vs Hostinger

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Narrowing to three is wisdom | cat requirements.txt | grep budget | sort -u | wc -l | most people run 20 tabs and buy none | you have three candidates | grep insight | I have touched two | InterServer I know from the monitoring side | their API is clean | their network is not | sed 's/expectations/reality/g' | Hetzner I left six months ago | price was right | support was a shell script | https://docs.hetzner.com | Hostinger I have not used | pipe dream maybe

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- Hetzner:
- price: lowest
- network: "acceptable"
- support: WARNING: ticket roulette
- NOTE: IPv6 only on request
- InterServer:
- price: mid
- network: WARNING: congestion 20-02:00 UTC
- support: actually responsive
- NOTE: no custom ISO
- Hostinger:
- price: highest of three
- network: "proper" per their own words
- support: cheeky but competent
- NOTE: emoji in status page
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My usage: InterServer for monitoring, Hetzner for dev boxes
Would not use Hetzner for production
Would not use InterServer for latency-sensitive

Wesh @YuriDavid le server حلو for the yaml vibe incha'allah

I use Hostinger since 2024, incha'allah it stays up. The network is solid, le support is British so you get sarcasm with your reboot. IPv4 pricing is "meh" but included. No double NAT, which is rare at this tier.

Code-switch test: leur panel est propre, wesh. Would recommend for "I want it to work and I don't mind paying 2€ more".

Actually, (I work on the InterServer panel (well, worked (it's complicated)))) so I can speak to the roadmap transparently. We're (actually (I'm speaking personally here))) aware of the congestion issue. It's (specifically (the upstream in Frankfurt (we're negotiating a second path))).

What I can say: no custom ISO is a real limitation. We're working on it (slowly (Q4 maybe)). The price is low because we own some hardware (not all (colocation mix))). I'd rather you know this than discover it.

For Hetzner: their virtualization stack is actually (older Proxmox (not a bad thing (stable))) but oversold in some regions. Hostinger I can't speak to (competitor (but respected))).

Hey folks, gonna jump in officially here - I'm Marcus from InterServer, saw @sagepat already started the transparency train so I'm gonna keep it rolling

Super stoked you all are comparing us honestly. The congestion is real, gonna own that. We're adding Voxility in September, should fix the 20-02:00 UTC pain. Custom ISO is coming Q4, maybe Q3 if we get lucky.

Mistake I made: we launched without proper IPv6 rDNS. Fixed last month. If anyone got borked records, hit me up, I'll fix them manually.

Hetzner's pricing is fire, not gonna lie. We can't match it and stay profitable. We aim for "sleep through the night" instead.

For real though - thanks for the balanced thread. Rare around here.