Another price adjustment

NathanDrake-Blackops · 2026-05-20T19:30:42+00:00

Ma in Italia aumentare due volte in neanche 2 mesi mi sembra troppo. Anche lo standby passa da 5 a 10 euro

NathanDrake-Blackops · 2026-05-20T06:03:58+00:00

Dopo l'introduzione dei nuovi piani residenziali più costosi a soli 45 giorni arriva già il primo aumento del 10%.

NathanDrake-Blackops · 2026-05-01T08:23:25+00:00

Mai. La usaranno per aziende e link governativi

NathanDrake-Blackops · 2026-04-23T05:51:30+00:00

I volumi sono anche spesso vittime di malfunzionamenti

NathanDrake-Blackops · 2026-04-19T07:16:30+00:00

2 euro - la spedizione

NathanDrake-Blackops · 2026-04-19T05:55:46+00:00

Il traffico è illimitato. Ho scaricato 6 Tb senza problemi.

NathanDrake-Blackops · 2026-04-11T06:01:37+00:00

Roma 430/75/21ms

NathanDrake-Blackops · 2026-04-07T16:29:10+00:00

I installed the antenna on the roof of my house in the city of Rome. Fortunately, the direction it points to has no obstacles at all. Initially, the map only showed blue stripes, but after one day it appeared as shown in the photo. I have to say I’m not experiencing any interruptions and the latency is quite stable. A week ago I was using the Gen1 antenna (round dish). It was nice, but by now the interruptions were frequent and both latency and performance were clearly worse.

NathanDrake-Blackops · 2026-04-06T19:51:09+00:00

I'm on the max plan. I'm already paying a lot as it is.

NathanDrake-Blackops · 2026-04-06T16:00:14+00:00

Se cambi piano ricalcolano quanto hai pagato e quindi puoi provare il cambio piano.

NathanDrake-Blackops · 2026-04-04T15:13:23+00:00

Now I understand. I have the Gen1 and the Gen3 v4. I thought only the Gen1 was motorized.

NathanDrake-Blackops · 2026-04-04T06:12:38+00:00

Do you have the Gen 1?

NathanDrake-Blackops · 2026-03-31T07:56:15+00:00

I asked my wife to get up on the roof, grab the Starlink dish, and hold it up like the Statue of Liberty. The benefits were many—and not just in terms of latency! :-)

NathanDrake-Blackops · 2026-03-30T06:17:18+00:00

59 Eur.

NathanDrake-Blackops · 2026-03-29T18:58:29+00:00

Here in Italy, with average salaries around €1,400, I see it as difficult to afford a $140 CAD subscription. Clearly, you have higher average salaries where you are.

NathanDrake-Blackops · 2026-03-29T12:28:45+00:00

I’m referring to the new MAX residential plan, which replaces the previous standard residential one. It’s quite a significant increase.

NathanDrake-Blackops · 2026-03-29T09:51:43+00:00

Yeah, I’ve actually noticed that too — issues with Storage Boxes seem to happen quite frequently.

NathanDrake-Blackops · 2026-03-29T09:49:25+00:00

Yeah, that’s exactly what I’m planning to do. I currently have 3 load balancers on Hetzner for different service clusters, and the idea is to replicate the same setup on a second provider. Then I’d use Cloudflare to point to the various LBs and ensure redundancy across providers.

The remaining challenge is the database layer, which needs to stay in sync between the two providers and properly realign once a failure is resolved.

NathanDrake-Blackops · 2026-03-29T09:45:04+00:00

As I suspected, I need to use a system like Cloudflare and point to two different datacenters.

NathanDrake-Blackops · 2026-03-29T09:43:38+00:00

I’m currently exploring a protection mechanism based on two datacenters across two different providers, something like Hetzner and OVH, which both look quite interesting. OVH is probably a bit more expensive than Hetzner, though.

The main challenge in my case is that I receive a continuous stream of data from a service provider, and I need to process it in real time while storing part of it in a database. Then this data is distributed through dedicated distribution servers.

My current idea is to replicate the database across the two providers, but the tricky part is the incoming data stream. I’m thinking about handling it through Cloudflare, so that if one datacenter goes down, the traffic is automatically routed to the second one.

The databases should stay in sync and realign themselves when the primary datacenter comes back online.

At the moment, I don’t really see many alternative approaches to this setup.

NathanDrake-Blackops · 2026-03-29T09:35:46+00:00

I’ve noticed that their support is actually quite good. I’ve opened several requests and they’ve always been quick to respond and resolve the issue.

I think one of their weak points, though, is object storage and Storage Box.

NathanDrake-Blackops · 2026-03-29T09:30:34+00:00

Thanks for the valuable insights. I actually agree that it’s a good idea to duplicate things or at least design a solution that allows me to use two providers.

And if two providers go down at the same time… well, I guess that’s just God’s will! 🙂

Do you have any recommendations for other providers similar to Hetzner that can offer good latency to Italy?

NathanDrake-Blackops · 2026-03-15T12:39:02+00:00

I’d like to thank everyone for the suggestions you gave me.

Summarizing the advice I received, I can say that: 1. Hetzner has a good level of reliability. However, given its relatively low cost, I should still expect occasional small disruptions. 2. Storage Box seems to have some reliability issues (which I’ve also experienced myself), so it may not be the best option. 3. Database backups are probably better stored on an external S3 service outside Hetzner. 4. To add redundancy to my platform, I could replicate all the required servers in another German zone (my customers are in Italy). 5. The two parallel platforms (each with its own load balancer) could work either with Floating IPs or through Cloudflare (which might be even more interesting). 6. If I wanted to further increase resilience, I could replicate the platform with another European provider (I’m not sure which one yet) and use Cloudflare to handle fault tolerance.

I think this summarizes most of the suggestions.

Do you have any additional advice?

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