That’s what he said. 
--Katie
To change the subject, though… @Poli I am just curious; this question isn’t meant as criticism. How much time does it take to deploy a similar order at other providers? Or maybe you can tell me how much time you would expect it to take for us. (Sometimes it’s hard for us to know what expectations customers have regarding specific services/products.) --Katie
I know custom hardware is hard because it changes a lot, but if it’s possible in one week it would be great, I think. For standard setup, I find it logical that the process is automated and that it’s faster. But for custom, it’s also typical that it takes more time.
But when you buy a server which costs about 500$ per month waiting up to 2 weeks, I find it quite long since while you wait you could have already advanced in your project/idea.
Of course, this is a positive critic, don’t get me wrong that I dislike the service I really enjoy all the times I talked with you, and that you helped me and at this price, we really can’t say anything. But the machines in Finland, for example, are way faster for delivery.
It’s also sad that in Nurenberg there aren’t any other machines than the PowerEdge (and the cloud).
So as always it stays ideas, and I know it’s easy to say how to do it better 
Hi @Poli - Without going into more detail, the wait times are lower in Finland because the demand there is lower.
Even before COVID-19, our team in Falkenstein was dealing with an unpredictably high level of demand, much more than they usually have. And then COVID-19 hit, and that created a new set of challenges, and even more demand. So our hardware assembly team in Falkenstein has been under extra pressure over the last few months. Naturally, they are working hard to fill orders as quickly as possible, but we also want to make sure that they are safe and have good working conditions.
We have we recently hired more staff, but it takes time to train people well.
We know that it’s tough to wait for so long. (Normally, you’re right, the wait would not be so long.) And we appreciate your patience. --Katie
“Your a victim of your own success”
We’ve got another pretty pic of our DC today:
It made me think of a “bottle episode” that I recently watched on the TV show “Community”. I was thinking that the cold aisles would make an interesting setting for a bottle episode in a buddy comedy show like that.
If you were to make it a setting in a TV show or movie, what genre or type would it be?–Katie
It was always amusing the couple times in Silicon Valley when being toured around the massive Hooli DC, they would lose sight of the DC tech and would then be wandering around aimlessly trying to find their way out.
Can we request pictures of our dedis? Can I get a picture of my dedi idling?
They’d need a full time photographer if they announced that.
Great show.
Want more order and balance in your life? Who doesn’t? Well, now you can have some more balance in your infrastructure. We’re running a free beta test on Hetzner Cloud’s newest feature, Load Balancers, and you’re invited. Experience first hand the improved performance and see how you can add more efficiency to your infrastructure: Load Balancer
@Mr_Tom is right. I think if we offered this, a lot of people would want them. --Katie
yea! Awesome! 
(but no support for lets encrypt? 
)
@Rovox - I asked one of the team members about this. Here’s his answer: “We still considering whether or not we will implement support for Let’s Encrypt. Before we come to that point in the road, there are a few other things on our to-do list that we want to look at first. One of these is adding dedicated root servers as targets for the Load Balancers. But we’ll revisit the possibility of adding Let’s Encrypt support later.” --Katie
okay! thanks!
I just saw about that but i was wondering about a few things when will it be usable with Dedicated machines is it planned soon?
And there is a 20tb limit, will their be something to have an unmetred one (for a different pricing of course). I was also wondering if there is a bandwidth speed limit?
The 20TB limit is per VPS, so I don’t think that would apply here, as I don’t think I’ve heard of any LBs that affect bandwidth.
then someone corrects me since I am really not well informed with LoadBalancing but if i am right i need a 4gb/s server as lb if I have 4 machines with 1gb/s.
At least I asked it on Reddit a guy said me this :
If traffic is your bottleneck and why you need load balancing, then I suppose that makes sense. If your workers are able to run and handle a full 1gbps workload, then you’ll need at least a 4gbps connected machine (full duplex) to handle the traffic for the 4 workers under full load.
I feel like most people use load balancers because the workload isn’t able to keep up with the requests (not necessarily because of network-based reasons).
Here’s a cool pic of the day…
@Poli - Adding our dedicated root servers as targets for the Load Balancers is likely going to be the first major item on the Cloud team’s to-do list
performance: It highly depends on your configuration. For our smallest Load Balancer type LB11, you should expect performance roughly equivalent to running popular load balancing software on a CX11 cloud server.
The beta-test includes just the smallest package size that we have planned. There will be higher levels of Load Balancers with more resources after the beta. --Katie
Unrelated question. What are you using to follow up on all the forums, social media?
Assuming you’re not going into each site/forum every day to post, check, whatever.
