Hetzner are a relatively low-cost hosting provider based out of Germany. They provide a range of powerful but cheap dedicated servers which make a good platform for experimenting with VMWare ESXi or other virtualisation software. However, their networking is based around statically routing MAC addresses which makes it both a bit different to more common VLAN setups and harder to get up and running. They do have a canonical guide to configuring this, but I found my knowledge of networking a la...
