I saved about $1200 a year by moving from AWS to Hetzner. Can’t recommend it enough. AWS has kind of become a scam.
Anything worse about the service?
Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner
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#12It's tough to work with these publicly traded companies. They need to boost prices to show revenue growth. At some point, they become a bad deal. I've already migrated from DO. Not because of service or quality, but solely because of price.
Where did you migrate out to?
Hetzner. Vultr.
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#13What are you doing for DB backups? Do you have a replica/standby? Or is it just hourly or something like that?
Because with a single-server setup like this, I'd imagine that hardware (e.g. SSD) failure brings down your app, and in the case of SSD failure, you then have hours or days downtime while you set everything up again.
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#14I always appreciate savings posts, but is $14k USD annual really make or break for a Turkish business? I would not know.
I suspect with that money you could get a full time customer support person for your business. Now think about it, what's creating more value to your customers: having your infra on Digital Ocean or having a better customer support?
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#15> Cloud providers are expensive for steady-state workloads.
Asking the obvious question: why not your own server in a colo?
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#16I saved about $1200 a year by moving from AWS to Hetzner. Can’t recommend it enough. AWS has kind of become a scam.
Hetzner Cloud or their VPS offerings?
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#17> Cloud providers are expensive for steady-state workloads. Asking the obvious question: why not your own server in a colo?
I Guess hetzner is basically "your server in colo"
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#18I always appreciate savings posts, but is $14k USD annual really make or break for a Turkish business? I would not know.
It's a nice chunk of change, which you could use for other purposes. It might not make or break the company, but it could pay for something that actually generates business.
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#19I always appreciate savings posts, but is $14k USD annual really make or break for a Turkish business? I would not know.
If you only have Rs. 100 in your pocket, you will think hard before spending Rs. 10. If you have Rs. 1000 in your pocket, you will not mind spending Rs. 10. That said, even if you are financially sound, why in the world would you want to pay $14k extra for a similar service that is available cheaper? That money could be better utilised elsewhere.
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#20I use OVH btw.