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Yeah very interesting, well by our side with caching it looks like we have the possibility to handle so much load (i must admit I was surprised at first too) we are currently using Cloudflare but we are moving on our solution for it. But yeah very interesting because I wanted to do video load balancing in the future (for live streams) and I wondered if it was possible to have load balancing but it simply redirects to the machine with the least connections (or round-robin).

Thanks for your answer as always !

@Hetzner_OL Great and do you think there will be any bandwidth limit or any bandwidth speed limit? Because load balancing is not a quiet hard task depending on what you do on it (like with no filtering).

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Would be great if you could support TLS over TCP ports. We are now spreading a large chunk of our logging ingestion over several small instances but a single load balancer would be great.

Are the larger load balancer instances going to support > 1gbit?

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This, actually. There isn’t one tool out there so far that integrates all of the channels we use. Or if there is, we haven’t found it yet or tried it out. In addition, we also spend some time – when we have it – just skimming/reading through some of the forum threads to also stay informed about general industry news and to see what other companies are doing. Social media monitoring tools make that aspect trickier, I would imagine.

Yes, they will. I’ll also pass on your comment about TLS support over TCP ports as a “+1” for the wishlist.

In different news, we’ve got a new tutorial up on our Community page:
tutorial-shopware6
–Katie

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I must say the other day when I received a mail about your LB offering, I was very excited, until I logged in and found the following:

  1. no LE support (while you can work around this by scripting upload using API, it would of been nice to be built in).
  2. Limited to ~5 services to protect/HA, this is a bit flawed, many of us have multi domains which “at least” out of the box, your new LB offering doen’t really support it as every domain (say https) uses up one service (unless ive missed something). There is a work around for thoughs whos technical enough to do but doesn’t cover everyone. This could be fixed by people uploading a SAN cert but not everyone would know that. Right now your much better off in rolling out your own HAProxy solution and don’t have these limitations. Either grab a failover IP and two instances and script the moving of IP, or just make sure you put the instance on CEPH based which auto moves if the node dies (depends how reliable you need it).

Currently and I really hate to say, you would of been much better off putting the time and effort in producing/provding say s3 compatiable storage vrs your LB in its current state. This is one key service which Hetzner still fails upon where most of your competion already provides this. You even have an awesome CEPH based storage for Hetzner cloud, you could have easily added radusgw and done a nice UI front end.

Please remmeber these are my own opinions, everyone has their own and views, im just trying to be unbiased and try and tell it as it is.

Apart form that great work and keep it up.

Kind Regards

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Did you find in the api how to upload ssl certifcates and connect them to the lb, because i couldn’t Maybe @Hetzner_OL could provide some more information?

edit, nevermind, just saw that you can upload ssl certifcated, you can also assign multiple to one service by the looks of the api! what would solve the 1 service needed for every https domain.

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Yeah its in the API but I didn’t notice you could assign multi certs though.

https://docs.hetzner.cloud/#certificates

In any case right now, IMHO rolling your own has much more flexibly.

Example, you can’t do like…

  acl myservice_docker_req hdr(host) -i my.example.com
  acl myservice_docker_req path /myservice/
  http-request redirect scheme https drop-query append-slash if { path -m str /myservice }
  http-request deny if myservice_docker_req !{ src -f /usr/local/etc/haproxy/acl/dl } { path -i -m beg /myservice }
  use_backend myservice_docker if myservice_docker_req { path -i -m beg /myservice }

Which in this case restricts a directory to a list of IP’s.

So at least from my POV, Hetzner LB isn’t feature rich enough, at least not yet, but i’m sure it will be in time.

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This is one of the most-requested items on the customer wishlist. So I’ll add a +1 for it. I think the only other thing for LB with a higher priority is going to be adding our dedicated root servers as targets.

This is just the free beta-test, which uses the lowest package level for the Load Balancers. After the test is over, there will be two additional package levels for the Load Balancers with more resources. The team, as you surmised, will also roll out other features for the LBs in the future.

Thanks for the feedback; I’ll pass it on to the team. It’s naturally important that we hear the good and the bad. If you notice anything else in the future, please communicate directly with our technicians. They would appreciate seeing your notes directly. That’s the whole point of the beta test. :wink: You can open a support request on Cloud Console by going to the user icon, and then clicking on “Support” and then when you need to choose the ticket type, just pick “Miscellaneous”. --Katie

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Colorful wildflower beds and meadows as far as the eye can see — not only flowers are blooming in Finland, so is our Helsinki location. We’ve got 150,000 square meters of space to grow into. Sure looks purdy, though, dunnit? --Katie
helsinki-wildflowers

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@Hetzner_OL is there a public wishlist we can vote on? :slight_smile: if not, maybe that a nice way to see what people want next aswell!

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It’s a really informal list that we don’t publish. But I can pass on the desire for more transparency. --Katie

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awesome! i was not really meaning to publish your internal list but more a platform we can put things on like whmcs has: https://requests.whmcs.com/

That you keep an internal list is more then fine!

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Hi there @Rovox - Thanks for the link to the whmcs requests page. It’s really impressive! I’ll pass the suggestion onto my colleagues. I am not sure if we’ll be able to implement anything like this in the near future, even on a smaller scale, but I can see why it’s attractive. :smiley: -Katie

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Hi guys, we have some great tutorials from our community site for you.

Ever wanted to know how to install a Windows operating system on dedicated hardware without using a KVM console? With this tutorial, you will learn how to do it in only 6 steps.
The only requirements are a Dedicated Root Server in the Rescue System and more than 8 GB RAM in the server. Then you are ready to go.

The second tutorial is about understanding and using the functions of iptables.
In addition, practical examples are used to illustrate different ways of using iptables in an optimal way.

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Is this hetzner usa?
@imok

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What? @Hetzner_OL?

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Make my day :wink:

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This network has been around for a while, I think I saw it a month or 2 ago.

They’ll be making a lot of American customers very happy if they enter that market. Of course I’m hoping this won’t stop them being awesome in Europe.

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I’ve seen using it down here with ~300 msec latency so I guess lots will be inclined to choose hetzner instead of ovh BHS ( some use it quite a lot, much more than hetzie).

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Hi HostedTalkers Sorry, that sounds weird.
Hi yall, Since we’re talking about the USA, I figure an 'merican greeting is more appropriate anyway.
@crotaphiticus - Entries like this have been generating some rumors and gossip for the past few months.

So, I’m gonna tell you what I’ve told the others. I can neither confirm nor deny any rumors about Hetzner Online going to the US.
We don’t make announcements about new locations until plans are very, very certain – like the ink on the contracts are signed certain. When and if we can make an annoucement on future developments, we will.
That being said, we are really happy that you all would like to have us there. It’s great to feel so welcomed and appreciated.

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This Thursday, we’re featuring a tutorial on using ufw as firewall manager and using it to block communications to private networks.

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What firewall manager do you use on your server? Why that one? If you’ve got any tips for how to use your firewall manager, why not turn it into a tutorial and add €50 to your Hetzner account. --Katie

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