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Have been using Hetzner for the last three years for some medium-traffic (but growing) SaaS offerings, has been a fantastic experience and the pricing is very competitive. They offer only a small feature set but it's good enough for us. Looking forward to spawning some servers in the US region to reduce latency.

Only thing that's missing are BGP sessions, would make it easier to build anycast networks with them. You can get it if you buy rackspace but I really don't want to manage my own servers anymore.

Another thing that's missing is geo-redundant load balancing, i.e. the ability to spin up a single logical load balancer in multiple regions and dynamically route client traffic to the nearest DC via BGP. Currently LB targets need to be in the same DC, which is kind of weird. You can use DNS load balancing but given the larger footprint they should really invest in a proper anycast setup, I think.



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