[XERQ]

For those of you looking for competitive prices with servers in the U.S., take a look at SSD Nodes—a bootstrapped hosting provider I've been working on since 2011. I'm the founder and CEO, so I'm a little biased, but we're offering 16GB of RAM plus KVM for a price that's more than competitive with Hetzner, and have clients posting excellent benchmarks, like 1.1 GB/s throughput and 480K IOPS[0].

Check out our pricing:

https://www.ssdnodes.com/pricing/

Happy to answer questions if there's any.

[0]: https://serverscope.io/trials/lrAw

[jo909]

To be honest monthly pricing and full year commitments to get special deals no longer do it for me.

I'm sure you'll find some customers at those prices, but it does not compare with what Hetzner is offering here just because of that.

[xchaotic]

two things kill it for me - annual commitment - I'm just playing around and I have so many options to choose from without the commitment. Mind you, we're spending $10k+ on AWS right now, but it all started with a free tier. Another thing is we're based in Europe and you only have servers in the US. Good luck in the ultra competitive market.

[XERQ]

Totally understand, and thank you for taking the time to provide feedback.

In most cases our annual price is equivalent to 1-3 months of a competitor's monthly price. You mentioned AWS so I'm going to use them as an example, even though it's not an apples to apples comparison. Their m5.xlarge is similar to our X-Large plan (16GB RAM + 4vCPUs). I'll ignore that it doesn't include storage or bandwidth, for simplicity. The m5.xlarge (with no storage or bandwidth) costs $140/month on-demand, which exceeds the annual price of the X-Large plan. If you reserve an m5.xlarge for 1 year (paid upfront) with AWS, the cost is a little less than $1K, which is close to 10X the cost of our X-Large.

If customers cancel their server with us after the 14-day refund period, we provide a prorated credit for the remainder of their billing cycle[0]. So if someone cancels after 2 months, they get the remaining 10 months as credit. They can use that towards renewals, new services, etc. I totally respect it's not for everyone, but the cost savings can be substantial for those who are able to use our services.

We are also expanding to Europe in the near future.

[0] https://www.ssdnodes.com/features/

[georgeappiah]

Why is your network so slow compared with the rest (from your own performance comparison)?

https://blog.ssdnodes.com/blog/comparison-vultr-vs-digital-o...

[adantey]

If I get the 16GB RAM plan can I scale up at a later stage and what processes on my part does that involve?

[XERQ]

It's super easy. Just log into the dashboard and select your server, then "Upgrade" to see the options. From there, choose the package you want and your KVM server will be automatically scaled up (with zero downtime).

[op00to]

Also - any way to get Fedora rather than Centos?

[XERQ]

We will definitely add support for Fedora in the future.

[op00to]

Gonna give a Hacker News discount? :)

[XERQ]

The 16/32GB RAM options are actually the lowest we offer. We did the side deal thing in the past, but having different pricing on the main site and a landing page just made things more complicated and led to unhappy customers.

[adantey]

Prices seem ridiculous even without the discount.

[OkGoDoIt]

I’d join in a heartbeat if you supported Windows. Why do almost no VPS providers support Windows?

[XERQ]

We're definitely planning on offering Windows in the future. There are some licensing headaches, and it also means having people on staff that are experts in both Linux AND Windows (for customer queries, etc). So it's a bit more involved than just having a Windows install, but we're working on it.