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Hetzner dedicated servers alternative in US

10 points by jaigupta ↗ HN
At present we are using Hetzner AX101/AX102 dedicated servers. They are of great value for money. What provider would you recommend in the US? I understand it may not be as good value for money as Hetzner but hopefully as reliable and performant.

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warrenm
I'm not up on non-Hetzner physical machine rentals ... but I am curious: why are you looking for a different vendor?
PaulWaldman
Not OP, but I believe Hetzner may not have dedicated options in US DCs.
KomoD
Yeah, US is only for cloud products at the moment
jaigupta
Correct. This is the only reason.
warrenm
I was more going for "why physical" and "why in the US" :)
jaigupta
We are an SaaS provider and customers demand to be hosted in US for various reasons

(a) They think they will get better performance/latency (although in our application it does not matter much) (b) For various compliance

We had been using co-location so far for US but we don't want to continue this road because of high investment (especially when compared with Hetzner) and higher responsibilities (hardware issues, inventory).

warrenm
I suspected it might have to do with [perceived/actual] 'compliance' needs

I've heard of Server Mania (https://www.servermania.com/dedicated-servers-hosting.htm)

Not sure if they might fit the bill?

Of course, there are several cloud providers who could likely slot-in for you (Vultr, Digital Ocean, Chunk Host, AWS, GCP, Heztner, Azure ...)

warrenm
I know Hetzner doesn't have physical servers in the US (yet)

This was more a question of "why physical" and "why in the US" :)

bckygldstn
OVH has a US West Coast datacentre that is probably going to be the most similar: https://us.ovhcloud.com/bare-metal/prices/

They were the only provider I could find to match my Hetzner SX64 specs for less than 2x the price.

jaigupta
How is your experience with OVH?
bckygldstn
Eh I only have 2 servers with them. I had difficulty with one becoming unresponsive right after setup, but after grabbing a replacement I’ve had no issues with them for the last year.
vmarchaud
We have ~two dozens rented boxes @ OVH in their French datacenters, apart from hardware failures from time to time (1/2 per year) you should be fine, just take that into account while designing the architecture. Also don't expect the support to helps you, they will sometimes but i'll say it's better to not expect it to not be surprised :)
yuppie_scum
AWS.
jaigupta
Really? I don't find them to be of a good value at all. Not just bandwidth but also the baseline network speed limitations based on EC2 size.