Now that I’m using Hetzner in the EU, I’m having difficulty understanding Linode pricing. For example, dedicated 16 CPUs on both hosts:

Linode: $288
Hetzner: $110

This is a massive difference. Is Linode that much better? I feel like a fool for paying this.

@manton I have been using Hetzner for a while now, based on @patrice's recommendation, and I am not looking back.

@manton I am curious as to why there is such a huge pricing discrepancy…

@manton are the offerings the same in all other metrics? Bandwidth, network connections / speed? Uptime garanties.

@V_ There are some differences (Hetzner actually had more RAM) but nothing obvious that would account for the price.

@V @manton I have been using Hetzner for more than 20 years and never had any issue or never any need to look somewhere else. Never had tried Linode as Hetzner has always been great value for a great and fair price.

@manton As a German (Hetzner is a german company) I‘ve always wondered why Linode is so expensive.

@manton Hetzner is using „cheaper“ Hardware like Desktop CPUs / SSD Drives

@manton been very happy since moving Feedbin to colocation six years ago. Saves about $20k/year vs leased dedicated servers and an unthinkable amount over the cloud. Performance is great and have only had one hardware failure that impacted uptime.

@benubois That sounds great. I think I need to eventually go to colocation, but not quite ready for the change.

@DodoWithCap Ah, interesting. Thanks.

@egghat @manton Out of curiosity, how are they with documentatin and general support in English?

I'm tempted to see about hosting in the EU due to <gestures broadly> here in the US, but like the average American I'm woefully monoligual.

@manton I should look into Hetzner. I have been happy with Linode, but it looks like Hetzner could save me a good amount of money.

@manton The Hetzner machines, in my experience, are also way more performant. I moved all my things into the Oregon datacenter; the hardest part was setting up NAT to avoid paying for IPv4 addresses for backend servers (and in the end having any public IP; Tailscale is so good).

@manton We should totally get Hetzner to sponsor … something.

@manton happy to answer any questions!

@manton Ugh, it would be such a pain to move my domains but Linode’s pricing has gotten out of hand.

@danielpunkass Corn Tuition. 🌽

@manton Hahaha! Yes.