Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner • Hacker News Board

Re: Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner

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Post by rpcope1 » Sat, Apr 18, 2026, 4:03 PM UTC

rustyhancock wrote: post #60

antirez wrote: post #9

I moved two servers, one from Linode and the other from DO to Hetzner a few months ago, with similar savings. The best part was that the two servers had tens of different sites running, implemented in different languages, with obsolete libraries, MySQL and Redis instances. A total mess. Well: Claude Code migrated it all, sometimes rewriting parts when the libraries where no longer available. Today complex migrations…

Wow a Claude add embedded into a Hetzner add. How deep does this go?

I mean if it were anyone else, yeah I might agree, but I think Salvatore is being genuine here (and have seen Claude do a similarly surprising job fixing ops issues).

Re: Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner

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Post by Aurornis » Sat, Apr 18, 2026, 4:03 PM UTC

sph wrote: post #101

rustyhancock wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow a Claude add embedded into a Hetzner add. How deep does this go?

I have just seen with my own eyes Claude astroturfing on a gamedev subreddit from a botting account that was picked up by Google so I could see a few of their other comments. This account's operation was going on development subs complaining about how good Claude's latest model is and how awful it is being afraid of losing one's job to AI. I know your comment is tongue-in-cheek and the poster here is kinda known, but…

I see a lot of these posts on Reddit, too, but I don't think it's actually Anthropic or Claude doing it. It's the same old Reddit karma farmers picking up on the latest trends. They've always combined headlines with ragebait to build karma and now LLM bots make it easier than ever.

It's too bad Reddit allows accounts to hide their comment history now. That was an easy way to identify bot accounts before they started allowing accounts to hide their post history

Re: Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner

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Post by chalmovsky » Sat, Apr 18, 2026, 4:03 PM UTC

mariopt wrote: post #128

Every time I see this kind of article, no one really bothers about sb/server redundancy, load balancers, etc. are we ok with just 1 big server that may fail and bring several services down? You saved a lot of money but you'll spend a lot of time in maintenance and future headaches.

What are you running on it is the only question which matters, obviously you dont want air traffic control to go down but some app… So what if it goes down? Backup is somewhere else if you even need it anyway. Github has uptime less than 90% according to this: https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ . And the world keeps turning. Obviously we should strive for better, but also lets please not continue making this uptime fetish out of it, for vast majority of the apps it absolutely doesnt fucking matter.

Re: Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner

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Post by PunchyHamster » Sat, Apr 18, 2026, 4:03 PM UTC

> Old server: CentOS 7 — long past its end-of-life, but still running in production. New server: AlmaLinux 9.7 — a RHEL 9 compatible distribution and the natural successor to CentOS.

So they did same mistake all over again. Debian or Ubuntu would just be upgrade-in-place and migrate

Re: Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner

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Post by wiether » Sat, Apr 18, 2026, 4:04 PM UTC

mariopt wrote: post #128

Every time I see this kind of article, no one really bothers about sb/server redundancy, load balancers, etc. are we ok with just 1 big server that may fail and bring several services down? You saved a lot of money but you'll spend a lot of time in maintenance and future headaches.

To be fair they were using a single VM on DigitalOcean, so they didn't had the perks of a cloud provider, except maybe the fact that a VM is probably more fault-tolerant than a bare metal server.

Usually those articles describe two situations:

  - they were "on the cloud" for the wrong reasons and migrating to something more physical is the right approach
  - they were "on the cloud" for the right reasons and migrating to something more physical is going to be a disaster

Here they appear to be in the first situation. If their setup was running fine on DO and they put the right DR policies in place at Hetzner, they should be fine.

Re: Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner

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Post by hnarn » Sat, Apr 18, 2026, 4:05 PM UTC

PunchyHamster wrote: post #154

> Old server: CentOS 7 — long past its end-of-life, but still running in production. New server: AlmaLinux 9.7 — a RHEL 9 compatible distribution and the natural successor to CentOS. So they did same mistake all over again. Debian or Ubuntu would just be upgrade-in-place and migrate

I work with Linux deployments for a living and I have no idea what you are talking about.

Re: Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner

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Post by Bridged7756 » Sat, Apr 18, 2026, 4:06 PM UTC

sph wrote: post #101

rustyhancock wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow a Claude add embedded into a Hetzner add. How deep does this go?

I have just seen with my own eyes Claude astroturfing on a gamedev subreddit from a botting account that was picked up by Google so I could see a few of their other comments. This account's operation was going on development subs complaining about how good Claude's latest model is and how awful it is being afraid of losing one's job to AI. I know your comment is tongue-in-cheek and the poster here is kinda known, but…

I've been warning people of Anthropic's astroturfing for a while now. The amount of "Insert latest model/Claude Code is scary. I'm worried about my job" posts, followed by a doom ridden writing about how their job was automated and 30 dudes got fired and the person is pivoting into plumbing or something or working at Mcdonalds, is just too suspicious not to note. Sometimes it's more covert. They don't mention any provider/model. Sometimes there's a subtle insert somewhere in the body, Opus, Claude, etc.

Re: Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner

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Post by traceroute66 » Sat, Apr 18, 2026, 4:06 PM UTC

adamcharnock wrote: post #62

This is something we've[0] done a number of times for customers coming from various cloud providers. In our case we move customers onto a multi-server (sometimes multi-AZ) deployment in Hetzner, using Kubernetes to distribute workloads across servers and provide HA. Kubernetes is likely a lot for a single node deployment such as the OP, but it makes a lot more sense as soon as multiple nodes are involved. For backups…

> Anyway, if you want to chat about this sometime just ping me an email:

Your post was reasonable until the spam tagline.

Not cool.

Re: Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner

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Post by PunchyHamster » Sat, Apr 18, 2026, 4:06 PM UTC

pennomi wrote: post #10

I saved about $1200 a year by moving from AWS to Hetzner. Can’t recommend it enough. AWS has kind of become a scam.

The pricing was always like that. You pay premium for availability of the big spread of cloud services

Re: Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner

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Post by alternatex » Sat, Apr 18, 2026, 4:07 PM UTC

acdha wrote: post #106

pennomi wrote: post #10

I saved about $1200 a year by moving from AWS to Hetzner. Can’t recommend it enough. AWS has kind of become a scam.

That’s like saying Mercedes is a scam because you’re fine with a Honda Civic. It’s a totally legitimate preference but not being in the target market doesn’t make something a scam.

AWS ain't no Mercedes. Mercedes feels premium and isn't full of bugs.

AWS and Azure a charging an arm and a leg, but the offered quality is mostly perceived. Most of the bits and bobs they charge for are not providing much value for a vast majority of businesses. I won't even go over the complete lack of ergonomics with their portals.