Renting a Server
There are several server service providers, many with different mode of operations and offers. We will be talking about how to set up a server with Hetzner
Hetzner Servers
German hosting with data centers in Germany, Finland and the Eastern part of The United State.
Advantages
- Hetzner servers have very good price-performance ratio;
- You can choose the server location yourself;
- There are no minimum rental periods;
- Rents are summed up for each hour
- Invoices are created on the 5th of every month
- Instant server deployment;
⠀ Disadvantages
- Due to the high volume of users concentrating in these three locations, the Idea of decentralization is lost.
- KYC is compulsory;
- VPS provides 20 TB of traffic per month, 1 TB in excess costs 1 euro;
- You can get banned for miners on VPS;
- The minimum rental period for DS is 1 month;
- There is a one-time DS rental fee.
Raising a Server with Hetzner
Follow this link Hetzner-CPX31 to get started with a 20 Euros 💶 credit
Click on continue; this takes you to the Hetzner website
Follow the sign up page, since we do not yet have a login details, click on register now.
This takes you to the registration page, put in your details, Read terms and agreement and tick ✅ if you agree and the click Continue.
Verify your email address by clicking on the link send to your email.
Next, you input your Title and Names
After that you need to input your contact details
Choose your desired payment method and complete;
If you get everything correctly, you will have a screen like this
You will be taken to your dashboard;
To get started, create a new project. You will be ask to verify your account
Follow the link to verify your account;
You will need to perform a KYC,
You will be redirected to iDenfy, where you will perform a KYC by providing a picture of your document (Int'L Passport, driver's license etc) and a live facial capture.
After successfully performing your KYC, go to the 3x3 square box drop down on your right and click on cloud.
This takes you back to create a new project, click on create project and Input a name for your new project. Then, Click Add project button.
Choose your preferred Location (Helsinki), Image (Ubuntu 20.04), server type (standard) and specification (CPX31);
You should leave these parameters as is, but you can edit the Name section (9) to your desired name.
After filling these information, click on Create and buy now. This create a new server with the details you specified. Now, you have an IP address visible.
Congratulations, you have been able to set up your server on Hetzner.
You can now log into you email address, to obtain your server login details already sent by Hetzner.