[dazzawazza]

I recently migrated one of my FreeBSD servers to hetzner and it was a breeze. The only wrinkle was that, until you've completed a billing cycle, you can't host an email server as the required ports are blocked.

For me this was fine and I understand why they do this but it wasn't clear to me at the start.

[justinclift]

Note that if your credit card expires, Hetzner will just turn off networking to your stuff until you fix it. No warnings given, and you'll find out when your alerting/customers/staff contact you to let you know something is wrong.

Guess how I found out... :(

[jsheard]

You can pre-charge your account to give yourself a buffer in case your payment method doesn't work for whatever reason, although it requires a bank transfer.

[V__]

There are multiple warning levels and you should get email notifications. I happened to overlook those as well and also only noticed it when they turned off networking. However, that was two weeks after the invoice due and it got unblocked in seconds after the payment went through.

[vitro]

You can ask and explain to them what kind of traffic you'll have. I've shown them the project I'm migrating, and they've opened ports for me right from the start.