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Hetzner (German company) is great if you need to host a simple website or an entire suite of services without relying on big American cloud services.

www.hetzner.com Dedicated Server, Cloud, Storage & Hosting

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They have German and Finnish data centers, as well as American. Pricing is pretty competitive, and unlike anything super autoscalable in AWS, it's predictable.

They offer an email service that comes with their basic webhosting service, which is a bundle that costs less for 100 inboxes than Google Suite or Proton for just one user, if all you need is email.

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Writing from Feddit.dk which is on Hetzner :)

Hetzner is great, have been using their server auction servers for many Proxmox hobby projects. Just hoping we'll have proper Cloud contenders in Europe one day, to take on AWS / Azure / GCP.

Note that you can’t host plex servers from hetzner because plex decided that too many piracy oriented plex servers were being hosted on hetzner hosting and their solution was to range ban all of hetzner.
Fuck plex, Jellyfin is superior if only because some bullshit company makes decisions on behalf of users that don’t reflect the users needs but the fact that the company is perpetually trying to hide the fact that their products core feature is that it’s built around media piracy. Jellyfin has to do the stupid wink wink we don’t do piracy here because laws are stupid but at least they won’t stop you from using good cheap hosting, collect data on you to share with third party analytics and advertisers, or remove watch together
- Hetzner storage boxes are also incredibly inexpensive, you can mount them on a smaller VPS in another datacenter (Scaleway for example) and still run Plex if you really need to.
  I just switched to Emby with zero regrets
  
  I reckon you could also route plex running on a Hetzner VPS through a VPN and have the benefit of less latency between your storage and VPS, at the expense of slightly more overhead elsewhere (the VPN).
  AirVPN is an inexpensive European VPN that allows port forwarding (not strictly necessary for Plex, but I believe you need it for direct connections, which perform better).
  Or there's Jellyfin and Emby. Can I ask why you chose Emby over Jellyfin? I see the latter recommended more often, but I haven't tried Emby so no idea how they compare for real.

Fantastic company - been using them for years. We also host the website with Hetzner.

Yup, excellent platform. We're using them for cloud, bare metal, and storage. We are in fact running a kubernetes cluster on their cloud servers. Been running for years, absolutely no problems whatsoever. I'm also using them personally and you can't find better pricing anywhere.
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I have a question... Currently, I am running a personal email server on a FreeBSD VPS hosted at Kamatera (a company from Israel, of all places). I do consider switching to the cheapest Hetzner cloud VPS plan, but I need to be sure that the following requirements are met:
The IPv4 address shouldn't be on any major blacklist
I must be able to get reverse DNS for my domain
If possible, I'd like to run FreeBSD on my VPS
Can Hetzner provide this?
- I believe they do. People do run mailservers on Hetzner, they even have a Mailcow setup guide.
  They no longer provide FreeBSD images but there's a workaround here that might work for a VPS as I believe their KVM console is for dedicated servers only but I can't immediately verify that.
- I'm running email services on their VPS too. They block tcp/25 by default to every VPS, so you need to request opening of the port, but at least for me it wasn't any problem and I can well understand why they do that.
- My server with email (from which I'm posting this) is hosted by Hetzner. I have reverse DNS, full control over the DNS entries, nothing seems to be on any block lists.
  I don't know if they provide BSD images but you can boot every server into a rescue Linux from which you should be able to download whatever you need.

I've moved to Hetzner after my previous hoster in the Netherlands decided to go full enshitification and almost doubled their prices in 3 years.
I've been enjoying Hetzner quite a lot. The panel/invoicing back-end is quite messy but the server quality and pricing make up for that. Support is also pretty fast.
- They had a really apologetic letter when they had to raise prices due to higher electricity costs. And still they were the cheapest for what I needed.

Hetzner is great! I have used Hetzner for a couple of years now and never had problems.

Been on Hetzner for a couple of years, run a few servers, never had any troubles.

We use them in our company and they have great support and are are very transparent. I can only recommend them.

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