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It's now more expensive for bandwidth than Digital Ocean, completely destroying what was its value proposition previously.


I'm not sure what math you're basing this on, but it's far from correct. They include slightly less transfer in the instances, but their overage pricing is about 10% of DO and their instances are so much cheaper that you'll be paying much less even after adding a few TB.

For example compare the CPX11 to the cheapest similar offering from DO:

CPX11: 2vCPU, 2GB, 40GB storage (NVMe), 1TB transfer, ~$5 per month

DO Basic: 2vCPU, 2GB, 60GB storage (non-NVMe), 3TB transfer, $18 per month

Add 2TB more transfer at Hetzner and you're at ~$7 per month. Still a bit less storage though, let's also compare it to the CPX21:

CPX21: 3vCPU, 4GB, 80GB storage (NVMe), 2TB transfer, ~$9.50 per month. Add 1TB of transfer and you get more of everything for ~$10.50, ~40% less than at DO. And bandwidth overages at DO are about 10x as expensive.

We can also compare a higher tier:

CPX41: 8vCPU, 16GB, 240GB storage (NVMe), 4TB transfer, ~$32 per month

CPX51: 16vCPU, 32GB, 360GB storage (NVMe), 5TB transfer, ~$63.50 per month

DO Basic: 8vCPU, 16GB, 320GB storage (non-NVMe), 6TB transfer, $96 per month


I was basing it off of the transfer per instance. Using DO, that transfer limit is pooled, so if you need a lot of bandwidth, the best option was to get a lot of $5/month droplets, which each came with 1TB/month.

Looking at their pricing just now, it looks like it's $6/month for that droplet, which changes things a bit. Now, as long as you're willing to get droplets purely for the bandwidth allotment, DO's bandwidth costs $6/TB. That's more than almost every Hetzner option listed by the OP, but not all of them.


But overages from Hetzner are $1.05 per TB, which is significantly less than $6, so you can just get whichever instance you need and let it roll.


That's the key thing I missed. It's nowhere near the deal it was but it's still clearly ahead of DO.




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