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1. Imusta+(OP)[view] [source] 2026-02-03 10:25:12
Really prefer Hetzner in this sense because they actually talk about limits. I recently got myself a hetzner account (after shilling it for so much, hearing positivity, I felt like it was time for me to discover it)

I wanted to try out the most cheapest option out of frugality & that was actually limited (but kudos to them that they mentioned that these servers have limits) so no worries I went and picked the 5.99 euro instead of the 3.99 euro option instead.

They also have limits option itself as a settings iirc and it shows you all the limits that are imposed in a transparent manner and my account's young so I can't request for limit increases but after some time, one definitely can.

Essentially I love this idea because essentially Cloud is just someone's else's hardware and there is no infinitium. But I feel as if it can come pretty close with hetzner (and I have heard some great things about OVH and have a good personal experience with netcup vps but netcup's payments were really PITA to setup]

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2. direwo+mf[view] [source] 2026-02-03 12:21:02
>>Imusta+(OP)
Hetzner is a dedicated server (meaning monthly contract, 1 month setup fee and up to 1 week delivery time) company that branched out into cloud, so it's not that surprising they treat cloud a bit like that. While Amazon wants you to think they have an infinite capacity pool, and any failure to get a server is an unexpected error, Hetzner seems to not hide they have a finite number of servers in a finite number of racks, since that's how their main business works.
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3. Imusta+9W[view] [source] [discussion] 2026-02-03 16:03:54
>>direwo+mf
I guess its understandable now the reasons why Amazon might want to do this.

Similar to hetzner, I haven't used OVH but does it also have limits or how do they follow?

Out of pure curiosity, Is there anything aside from the three hyperscaler trifecta which doesn't show limits too?

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4. direwo+ln1[view] [source] [discussion] 2026-02-03 17:52:55
>>Imusta+9W
Nobody really shows their global limits including Hetzner. Hetzner doesn't, like, call it a secret internal error when they run out of capacity of a type.
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