Wow, to go off topic; I've been using Versaweb for the past 3-4 years, but became very unhappy after they forced a "server management" fee down our throats.
We've been looking at setting up a small cluster of servers at work (budget of about $500), and I was still going to go with Versaweb. After seeing Hetzner, I'm going to reassess, and likely move everything there.
I'm paying €150 for what it seems I could pay €100 for. There was something that made me decide against Hetzner a few years ago, but I'll research and see if their TOS are now different.
Thanks again!
EDIT: My numbers are wrong, I'm going to pay less for 4x the RAM (256GB)
How so? I understand that there are some differences between the two, but the fundamentals are the same; which is that I want a physical server that I can manage.
Their pricing structures are slightly different, Versaweb gives me a bit more flexibility when configuring, a wider IP subnet bundled (instead of 1 usable IP), and a few other things which I'm investigating.
I also have to consider laws and network latency as these are in different regions.
In the end, I am paying $180 for a Haswell Xeon with lots of disk space and IO. I could pay the same amount for more RAM on the same CPU, albeit with slightly less space.
If I keep the same setup at a fraction of the cost, I could end up getting the 1080 GPU on the same datacenter. It somehow feels like the same or similar market to my needs ...
>How so? I understand that there are some differences between the two, but the fundamentals are the same; which is that I want a physical server that I can manage.
They're on different continents, which is a pretty fundamental difference.
We've been looking at setting up a small cluster of servers at work (budget of about $500), and I was still going to go with Versaweb. After seeing Hetzner, I'm going to reassess, and likely move everything there.
I'm paying €150 for what it seems I could pay €100 for. There was something that made me decide against Hetzner a few years ago, but I'll research and see if their TOS are now different.
Thanks again!
EDIT: My numbers are wrong, I'm going to pay less for 4x the RAM (256GB)