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I've maxed out lots of CPUs at Hetzner over many years, and across multiple companies, and had clients do the same, so I find your claim to be dubious unless you're talking about shared CPU cloud instances in which case I wouldn't be surprised but also wouldn't consider it unfair.

So let me revise that to say I haven't seen any reports I can 1) verify are first hand, and 2) know accurately reflect an actual unfair termination. That is also why I don't bother going around reading accounts on Reddit.



Maxing out a CPU for a day or a week doesn't count. It has to stay maxed out close to for a month, maybe more.

There are no "fair" terminations except without a court order. You will understand when it happens to you. Also, there is no way for you to determine if a report of a a termination is "unfair". In this way, you will continue reveling in your limited worldview.

I have seen this multiple times with German providers. They promise to serve, then when the user really genuinely exercises the service, they cancel the user.


I notice you've avoided addressing the issue of whether you were on a shared instance, where the point very much is that they're not meant for workloards that will pin the resources on an ongoing basis. On the dedicated servers they won't know whether you max it out or not.

That you're being evasive makes it very much sound like you used them in ways you should have expected would be treated accordingly.

If you've run into this multiple times, it very much sounds like a "you problem".


I have not run into this multiple times. You said that, not me. I said something different. Hetzner is the only cloud provider that cut me off. The other provider was not a cloud vendor.

Even if it was a shared instance, people don't hire a 48 core server just to use 1 or 2 cores. It makes no sense to rent out a big shared server and then expect users to not use it. Someone would rent it out only if they have exhausted smaller instances.

Something tells me that your idea of computing is communist computing, where someone shouldn't use too much even when paying for it. That's a mental roadblock for which there is no fix.

Someone with your communist mental model would be okay a cloud provider spying on their activities very closely, but most people are not.


> I have not run into this multiple times. You said that, not me. I said something different. Hetzner is the only cloud provider that cut me off. The other provider was not a cloud vendor.

So, you have been cut off multiple times.

> Even if it was a shared instance, people don't hire a 48 core server just to use 1 or 2 cores.

No, but that is also not what is happening.

> Something tells me that your idea of computing is communist computing, where someone shouldn't use too much even when paying for it.

No, my idea of it is that Hetzner operates in a capitalist economy where they at their sole discretion are free to choose who they want to do business with.

If you don't like that, then clearly you don't like a free market model. That's fine. But this is a direct consequence of Hetzner being free to choose not to want your business.

That you resort to implying this is down to politics makes it clear you're not prepared to engage with this in good faith.


Let's not make it more complicated than it is. Hetzner is a scammer that gets off on people that use it lightly. You too are one because you reject all assertions that you don't like without regard to their truth. That you are down to gaslighting makes it clear you're not prepared to engage in good faith. It is obvious that you have much to lose with Hetzner being exposed for the fraud that it is. This has been one of the most dishonest conversations I have witnessed on your part, all so you can continue to peddle it to clients without telling them of the risks.




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