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by Aeolun 316 days ago
> They’re unreliable as soon as you have to deal with their support who have the technical knowledge of a brick.

Since I never have to, that’s perfect isn’t it? If you need support from Hetzner you are using the wrong host.

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Simply running "ipfs daemon" is enough to get hetzner to threaten canceling your service.

They send nasty letters with pcap dumps of your "hacking" attempts and it doesn't matter how wrong you think they are.

clearly not true because I ran an ipfs daemon before and didn't get any nasty letters.

I got nasty letters during the letterbombing attack on Tor relays. They were nasty letters forwarded by Hetzner from the people who actually wrote them. Pointing Hetzner to the page about the attack made them go away.

> clearly not true because it never happened to me personally

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_equivalence

Here's one of several emails they've sent me over the years, each one happening right after running "ipfs daemon": https://0x0.st/Kryd.png

There's lots of other easily-searchable accounts of people having the exact same experience:

https://github.com/ipfs/kubo/issues/4343

https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/moved-ipfs-node-result-netscan-d...

https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs/issues/3982

https://github.com/filecoin-project/lassie/issues/121

https://github.com/covalenthq/refiner/issues/140

So they've never decided to blackhole your prod traffic 2 days after migrating to them? lucky.
I don’t think I’ve ever migrated anywhere and not kep the previous thing running for a month unless I wasn’t worried about exactly that thing happening (to be fair, not prod traffic blackhole, but similar effect)