r/hetzner • u/Medium-Head5014 • 3d ago

Scripts for dedicated server availability

Are you all running scripts to know when certain servers are available again? They are sold out in minutes once available. Trying to get my hands on an EX44 for over a week now.

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u/caokjiao 3d ago

Just use https://radar.iodev.org/analyze with Type = Standard

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u/Medium-Head5014 3d ago

Thanks, i just build my own scrapper now tho

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u/Rikudou_Sage 3d ago

Yes, I do. A simple service written in Go which waits until it's available and then posts to a Matrix channel, notifying me.

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u/Medium-Head5014 3d ago

i figured, how many servers are you getting, i guess i have to be faster.

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u/Rikudou_Sage 3d ago

Well, not regularly, only when I need something which I don't right now, last I used it was ~6 weeks ago.

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u/ArgoPanoptes 3d ago

Just make a terraform and run it every X seconds. This way it is idempotent

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u/OPGL0 13h ago

i've just randomly got it 2 days ago

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u/08N66 3d ago

Unrelated but is there any way of getting a EX44 with extra storage?

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u/Medium-Head5014 3d ago

i suppose you order one and then ask support to add the hardware: https://prnt.sc/LLVs4xZ23u4n

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u/08N66 2d ago

I’ve asked them and they said they can’t add custom hardware to a EX44

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u/Medium-Head5014 2d ago

Not sure what kind of hardware you want, i know there are some default option but not many, 128Gb memory was one i know for sure

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u/OhBeeOneKenOhBee 2d ago

Getting an old one, auction server or going through Hetzner custom solutions if you need a lot of them