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Hetzner also recently added “placement groups” to influence the distribution of virtual servers in their data centers.

Useful for HA clusters, mostly. Free, too. https://docs.hetzner.com/cloud/placement-groups/overview

Ah, I got excited and thought I could order a dedicated server - but choose if I wanted them to be on the same isle/shelf or on a different one! That would be cool! (This is still cool too, though!)

You can already order two dedicated servers and request them to be on the same rack: https://docs.hetzner.com/robot/dedicated-server/faq/faq/#can...

I'd assume you might be able to tell them to please put them on different racks for HA purposes, or something?

Ah yea ok, thanks!

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