Current status (October 2020): better avoid
Starting from 5 $/month.
Cons:
- Slow? https://jan.rychter.com/enblog/cloud-server-cpu-performance-comparison-2019-12-12
- unsafe? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24702228
Current status (April 2020): promising
Starting from 5 $/month.
Pro:
- Global free of charge network across datacenters
- Custom operating system by writing an ISO to a secondary disk
- Good support
- Good performances
Cons:
- Floating IPs costs 2.42 $/month
- Private network is 5 $/month
- No floating IPv6
Current status (April 2020): solid solution
Starting from 2.50 €/month (CX11).
Pro:
- Custom operating systems via recovery mode
- Free private networks
- Cheap
Cons:
- 1:1 NAT for IPv4 (no more relevant?)
- 1 €/month for floating IPv4/IPv6
- Only operating in Europe (that could be a good thing for some users)
Current status (July 2020): be careful!
Starting from 4.99 €/month (DEV-1S)
Pros:
- Unlimited data transfer (the network speed is the only limit)
Cons:
- IPv6 address not fixed
- Custom kernel for C1, C2, ARM64 (SELinux cannot be turned on)
- Outdated documentation
- Could have to create a new account if billing details change
- Many instances are not available for long periods of time, while some of them are available only by using API
- Latest network upgrade (06/04/2020) broke IPv6 connectivity on some VPSes (they need to be recreated)
- Bad support: after the IPv6 network distruption of April 2020, a high-priority ticket has been opened (reference #XFFI-8364-RANH); after 40 hours no one was able to identify the problem (I had to figure it out by myself)
- ARM is discontinued
- Recent important price change
Current status (April 2020): not tested yet
Starting from 5 $/month.
Pros:
- Custom images
- Free/opensource supporters
Current status (April 2020): basic functionalities; tested over long period of time
Starting from 2.79 €/month.
Cons:
- Bad control panel
- No production-ready support for Terraform
Current status (April 2020): more testing required
Starting from 2.50 $/month (IPv6 only, New York and Atlanta DC only).
Pros:
- Custom ISO
- PXE (on IPv4 instances only)
Starting from 3.50 $/month (smallest instance, 512 MB of RAM).
I got some issues with nomad/consul due to the 1:1 NAT with the CX11 with a custom OS (Fedora Atomic/CoreOS installed via recovery mode) in the past; I will try again to see if it changed.
"Cons" is quite generic and could vary based on your needs: in the case of Hetzner, I consider a good thing that they are only under EU jurisdiction only (I am an EU/EEA citizen myself), but for a US based company that could be a problem due to potentially higher latency (that is why it is listed under "Cons").
Having a fixed address is nice usually and some services provide that without having to buy a second one in addition to the dynamic one.
You are right and I took advantage of that until the IPv6 network disruption. I will add it again, thanks.
That is curious. Thanks for pointing it out.
I am glad you didn't have the same problem. What I wrote in this list is based on my very personal and limited experience, so take it with a grain of salt. I can say that the user support was very slow and was not able to detect my problem. The official solution came after ~15 days, where they suggested creating a new instance from scratch.