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Windows Server gets unfair stick in these circles I run Hyper-V on Server 2022 at Hetzner and the performance is perfectly adequate for my .NET workloads. Their support actually knows IIS, which is more than I can say for most "Linux-only" shops who suggest nginx rewrite rules for ASP.NET Not underrated exactly, but overlooked for the right workloads
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So wendy mentions Hetzner and I am thinking yes yes yes,,,,, I have three boxes there from the scrap gods themselves,,,,, Dual xeon e5-2670v2 with no nvme no ssd just sas spindles spinning like its 2014,,,,, The scrap gods provide what the scrap gods provide and I am grateful,,,,, 192gb ram each for forty quid monthly,,,,, I run zfs and postgres and my backups go to a friend in sheffield with same setup,,,,, Hetzner never answers tickets but the scrap gods do not need tickets,,,,, ~~dave
Heads up: this thread is sleeping on the actual best free infrastructure
Oracle Cloud free tier:
Pro tip: sign up with a credit card that does not charge forex fees. Step 1: create account. Step 2: request quota increase for ARM. Step 3: wait 3-5 days. Step 4: terraform your entire homelab into obsolescence.
My actual underrated: Vultr. They are GreenCloudVPS's EU-focused sibling with better peering and IPv6-only plans that cost nothing. Run wireguard endpoint and you forget the v4 address exists.
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@olya you make good point but o sea, Oracle free tier is not underrated if everyone knows it, no? 😊
My underrated pick: RackNerd. I used them to make a server up for my cousin in Valencia. Cheap ARM, no IPv4 but tunnel works fine. Support is one guy named Sven. Very Sven.
Regards
Olya mas 😂
Free tier mas tipo account deleted for "policy" with no email
Happened to me 3x
Real underrated: Vultr mas paid but stable
24GB "forever free" until Oracle changes terms. Again. I had 4 free tier instances. All gone in 2023 policy sweep.
My R740s have 512GB each. Paid once, own forever. No Sven required.
OVHcloud still king. 128GB min, actual DDR4 ECC, not "ARM maybe"
HeadRich same but different, I also like big RAM
My underrated is HostHatch, they have server in Bangkok, routing to Singapore is same but different from every other host, I get 15ms to their edge vs 35ms to typical, not bad
ping -c 5 hosthatch.com.th
64 bytes from 103.x.x.x: icmp_seq=1 ttl=55 time=14.8 ms
64 bytes from 103.x.x.x: icmp_seq=2 ttl=55 time=15.2 msSupport reply in 10 minutes at 2AM
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HostHatch route via CAT Telecom then Singtel adds 8ms vs direct CMI path. Here's Hetzner for comparison:
traceroute to hetzner.com
1 192.168.1.1 0.5ms
2 core1.lax 1.2ms
3 he.net 4.8ms
4 ntt.sg 158ms <-- bad
5 Hetzner 162msRoute via NTT adds 60ms over HE/CMI blend. GreenCloudVPS uses CMI direct, 102ms.
My underrated: InterServer. Anycast actually works. 45ms consistent EU-US-APAC.