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Hetzner banned my account on day 2, lol. At least they didn't charge me for my server (that billing would have happened at the end of the month).

A friend of mine had the same experience with them.



They are really sensitive to two things: address confirmation, in case you want to avoid 19% VAT, and mining for SIA)


They weren't even happy with my verification using a live selfie with my passport (i.e. by live video camera stream). I think they didn't like that I ran my dedicated server for about 6 hours and then shut it down.

I was testing software for the upcoming macOS Ventura release, and I only needed 6 hours of initial usage, and then 6 further hours a few weeks later (when a new developer beta dropped) but they closed down my account on the second day.

AWS had no trouble taking my money, so with some finagling I was able to use them instead: https://github.com/thenickdude/proxmox-on-ec2




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