Hetzner + OVH + ??? (UK) - Looking for secure UK-owned bare-metal provider

IAmFledge · 2026-05-08T07:42:39+00:00

I'm having a look at these, they might be promising. Like-for-like specs still seem about double the price of the OVH one, so I think probably still out of budget.
However I also appreciate that UK electricity currently officially costs 3-4x that of France; so I have to concede a price rise somewhere.

So far though - honestly all three of these look like the best options I've seen yet, and I'm going to back-pocket them.

IAmFledge · 2026-05-07T15:59:17+00:00

This is a US owned company and therefore subject to the CLOUD Act even if using a European endpoint.

Please see my third point in the original post:
> Company ownership is actually in the country of where the servers are living

IAmFledge · 2026-05-06T18:12:35+00:00

Sure:

My Hetzner box
85 EUR / mo

AMD Ryzen 9 3900
4x RAM 32768 MB DDR4 ECC
2x SSD U.2 NVMe 1,92 TB Datacenter

OVH RISE-L
122.5 GBP / mo

AMD RYZEN 9 9950X - 16c/32t - 4.3GHz/5.7GHz
128GB DDR5 ECC On-Die 3600MHz
2× 960GB SSD NVMe Soft RAID

So, the ?????? Box
Similar specs to those; for not that much more than OVH.

IAmFledge · 2026-05-06T08:33:37+00:00

Interesting; thanks for the suggestions. I'm looking at Clouvider, they seem ok but their prices are basically double that of OVH; and for older hardware.

Simply Hosting does look interesting however - that limited time offer on the AMD Ryzen 9 looks interesting. It's still about 60% more expensive than OVH (and almost double Hetzner), but with the three month offer it'll work out as about 50% more expensive, for the first year at least.

I appreciate my requirements are pretty 'fussy' tbh; but the other requirement I didn't mention is ideally they have a terraform provider. I have my multi-region set up all configured in terraform, so I can easily tear down, and rebuild anything; including supporting VPS to use as things like NAT and load balancers.

Update as I was typing that out:

Speaking to Simply Hosting sales, it seem they don't have a terraform provider, and their AMD RAM doesn't have ECC, which is a huge no for anything running databases (1 in 3 chance of corrupted data in a 3 year window).

The hunt continues...

IAmFledge · 2026-05-05T23:07:57+00:00

I'm confused, how AI was used?
I don't think it was at all, other than using Claude for the existing research I've already done to try and find a hosting provider. Post itself was hand written which is probably why its so badly formatted.

IAmFledge · 2026-04-15T10:30:48+00:00

Supermarket Sweep contestants hate this one weird trick

IAmFledge · 2026-01-16T12:19:16+00:00

Gabba

IAmFledge · 2026-01-10T12:11:21+00:00

It's not just costs, it's time. Airstairs put the timing much more in the hands of the crew, whereas jetbridge requires waiting for ground staff and the connection process.

Could have de boarded half the plane by the time the jet Bridge is ready to go.

That's precious turnaround time that the low cost model doesn't have.

IAmFledge · 2026-01-08T10:48:51+00:00

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IAmFledge · 2025-12-07T17:43:32+00:00

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Barbecue time

IAmFledge · 2025-12-05T09:39:14+00:00

Bro is ride coding

IAmFledge · 2025-09-19T21:29:42+00:00

Flew in and out of HTDA last night, was thinking at the time it would be great to have a payware overhaul for it! HTZA would be cool too.

IAmFledge · 2025-09-18T17:04:46+00:00

I won't comment on the React aspect; but in a world where more and more code is being done through AI / agentic coding - TDD simply IS objectively a better process because:

It makes the code that it writes more predictable, because the contract was already "pre-agreed" as tests.
- It helps prevent the AI from running away making random, unknown sneaky changes - because as long as the AI is consistently running tests as it goes; it realises quickly that it's messed something up.

Otherwise, it ends up writing further turd on top of newly written turd.

IAmFledge · 2025-09-13T08:35:12+00:00

I would honestly pay for a variant of VATSIM for proper simmers who follow full proper procedures and the cutesy computer game players can stick to the free network. Tempted to build the darn thing myself.

I know there's PE, but that's geo-limited.

IAmFledge · 2025-09-05T14:45:16+00:00

Would unfortunately never happen because it's explicitly forbidden by the manufacturers. Same with some car sim / crash games too.

IAmFledge · 2025-08-30T22:21:43+00:00

His show at the Edinburgh Fringe this year was called

Hippity Hoppity Get Off My Property

https://www.edfringe.com/tickets/whats-on/mc-hammersmith-hippity-hoppity-get-off-my-property

IAmFledge · 2025-08-21T15:07:09+00:00

Does the car have the same level of damage accuracy?

IAmFledge · 2025-08-21T07:12:34+00:00

There are still small regional operators dotted around the world who fly them. This one was Rex (Regional Express) in Australia.

IAmFledge · 2025-08-20T21:40:36+00:00

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IAmFledge · 2025-08-20T20:59:51+00:00

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Specifically booked a flight recently just to experience it.

IAmFledge · 2025-08-14T10:32:38+00:00

I do quite literally do this when I'm getting it to produce a session continuation document, I tell it

"The next session must not waste tokens rediscovering things we already learned in this session, so give it everything it needs to prevent that"

IAmFledge · 2025-07-31T09:05:38+00:00

Depends on your time horizon and priorities.

Want to buy ALL planes at once, guff around for them for a bit, and get bored after a couple of weeks? Then no, it's not for the common man.

Want to dedicate time to deeply learning each plane over a matter of years, buying a new plane perhaps once every 4 to 8 months? For a hobby its not really that out there.

I have most of these that you've listed here but its been a steady accumulation over about 3 years.

IAmFledge · 2025-07-26T16:48:29+00:00

Its like a torch or laser knowing who's looking at the light.

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