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by harshitaneja 1050 days ago
Hetzner is great and I love it and use it for all my dev needs. But there availability is in limited zones and for production I do suffer from the latency. Haven't found any other provider which costs anywhere near the same(every comparable server is at least 2x the cost). I use their AX41-NVME. Any suggestions of an alternate?
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Vultr has some very cheap offerings and maybe worth a look. I can't speak to their reliability or service, but they have DCs everywhere even in South America and Africa where there are few cloud options outside of AWS. They're more expensive than Hetzner, maybe even a little over your 2x range depending on your load, but if latency is your issue they probably got you covered.
Maybe OVH or Scaleway?
Both of them are french companies and from my experience with them if you need support is a hit or miss.
I've been pretty happy with my OVH server, but agreed on support... had better luck with chatgpt and a lot of additional reading getting my CIDR block of addresses configured under ProxMox (which made me far less worried about ChatGPT taking my job any time soon).

In the end, was an interesting learing experience, that I hope to not have to repeat. Only went for a single server as I had several smaller VPSes on DigitalOcean and wanted to add a mail server in the mix, and couldn't reliably send via DO or Linode, so was easier to consolidate and run on a single/larger host for hobby projects.