This is great news. Hetzner is our choice for inexpensive redundancy, especially on non-US soil for data duplication on other continents. They've been very good with us on customer service and their auction prices can't be beaten.
The latency to the EU somewhat stops us using them for production-level work, but this deployment to the US (especially on the West Coast, how lucky) will definitely shift our spend from DigitalOcean (which has been garbage lately both in terms of customer service and product offerings being much worse than advertised) to them.
Hetzner's control panel and automated systems are pretty bad, but that's a small thing when the price is right and customer service is much better than other offerings.
EDIT: I am a consumer of dedicated servers from them only. I don't really believe in cloud-based / AWS-type services for small businesses, and would like to get off most of our VPSes as well.
The latency to the EU somewhat stops us using them for production-level work, but this deployment to the US (especially on the West Coast, how lucky) will definitely shift our spend from DigitalOcean (which has been garbage lately both in terms of customer service and product offerings being much worse than advertised) to them.
Hetzner's control panel and automated systems are pretty bad, but that's a small thing when the price is right and customer service is much better than other offerings.
EDIT: I am a consumer of dedicated servers from them only. I don't really believe in cloud-based / AWS-type services for small businesses, and would like to get off most of our VPSes as well.