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How is reliability these days?

I've been running various (small) servers with Hetzner for the past 9 years and I've never noticed any downtime or any issues of any kind.

me too

Me too

Our first cloud server (supposedly to be a test) is runing since march 2018 We have managed more than 15 dedicated servers since 2012

Never an issue

I've only had 1 HDD failure since 2013 which their support was quick to resolve. I haven't noticed any network interruptions myself personally during that time.

I've only had them for a few years but I've yet to experience any issues with their great value (e.g 2TB €9.90 /mo) storage box servers. https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box

Only issue I have with them is the latency of their Germany DC's from the US, if they end up offering dedicated servers in a US DC I'll be moving over my existing Hetzner and AWS (non RDS linked) App servers over.

They announced their US datacenter recently! Welcome news for myself too

Yeah but it's only for their higher margin cloud servers products atm, they haven't committed to offering dedicated servers yet.

I am running dedicated servers on Hetzner since 2008 (max I had was 10 root servers at a time). Outages were quite common back in a day, both sudden server reboots and HDD failures. However, for last 5+ years I haven't got any single outage. Support is always very quick to react and you could usually get HDD replaced same day.

I have one at the 6€/mo level, with 498 days of uptime as of today.

Do you not patch your kernel?

Apparently not. Talk me into it.

While having a long uptime sounds cool it is a signal that you don't patch that often. Maybe you patch your other stuff, but I would bet on even odds that you don't. So then that is the rest of the stack, eg systemd which has some mega flaws IIRC.

You're leaving yourself open to having something exploited. Have a look at your ssh logs where "people" are constantly trying to get in.

https://www.whitesourcesoftware.com/resources/blog/top-10-li...

I understand, and my uptime was just to show how reliable Hetzner has been. By “talk me into it” I meant please point out a real kernel security flaw that be exploited without already having access to the system. There very well might be some! I’m not well up on all of this.

Yes, I check my logs and see the constant stream of breakin attempts. Basic security precautions seem to keep them out.

As someone who does full patches every couple of weeks on my servers and reboots every several months, I agree, however there's stuff that can live patch the kernel these days like kernelcare and livepatch by Canonical and more.

Another reason though to reboot every so often is for the server to do filesystem checks on the root partition(s).

Hot patching (kpatch) wasn't GE until earlier this year on Ubuntu.

I've been with Hetzner for about 400 days straight now with no unplanned downtime.

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