[ayi]

My 2024 goal was creating a website for me and hosting a copy of my newsletter there. I heard a lot of good things about Hetzner and choose them. Just right after signing up, even after I put a credit card with 3DS they immediately banned me. I wrote to support, they forwarded me to page. I uploaded my passport with my face. But my account is still banned. And worst thing is I’m 1 month late for my 2024 goal.

[lstamour]

Try racknerd… they have various Black Friday/new year specials that rarely/never expire and the price can be as low as $25/year for a decent 2-cpu VPS. Not the same hardware as OVH, storage often limited, but still an interesting price point and service. Biggest limitations: no 2FA on the control panel and mounting an ISO requires talking to customer service… oh and no automated backups but they might have recently added snapshots.

[lstamour]

I should add - keep your own backups. I can’t trust that a service this cheap will not lose my data somehow. It hasn’t yet, but with margins this thin I wonder if they’ll ever go out of business on me.

[tiffanyh]

> I wrote to support, they forwarded me to page. I uploaded my passport with my face. But my account is still banned.

Is there still more needed to complete their KYC process?