Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner

Post by jpablo » Sat, Apr 18, 2026, 6:57 PM UTC

embedding-shape wrote: post #268

jpablo wrote: post #250

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The "making it catch up" is the tricky part. You need an initial backup for that. xtrabackup can take that backup "hot" without blocking read/writes. mysqldumper will block writes for whatever time that initial backup takes, for 2TB of data that's going to be hours. Once you have that initial back up you can set your replica and make it catch up , then you switch. I choose to take the few seconds of downtime doing th…

Isn't that just a flag? "--lock-tables=false", alternatively --single-transaction for InnoDB.

Post by rs_rs_rs_rs_rs » Sat, Apr 18, 2026, 7:03 PM UTC

alternatex wrote: post #160

acdha wrote: post #106

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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.

Post by mmarian » Sat, Apr 18, 2026, 7:05 PM UTC

bth wrote: post #280

A few months ago, I looked into AWS alternatives for my small SaaS side project. My main motivations were to save money and maybe support some EU cloud providers. At first, I planned to go with Hetzner and accepted that I would need to do a lot of things myself. However, the dealbreaker for me was that Hetzner IPs have a bad reputation. At work, I learned that one of the managed AWS firewall rules blocks many (maybe…

Post by traceroute66 » Sat, Apr 18, 2026, 7:06 PM UTC

senko wrote: post #260

traceroute66 wrote: post #258

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> Surely you must've noticed that pretty much all of their bare metal offerings ("dedicated" and the stuff on "auction") have multiple disks, allowing for various RAID configurations? I don't know where to start with this comment. Do I really need to spell out the difference between cloud and bare metal ? A few examples... - Live migration ? Cloud only. - Snapshots ? Cloud only. - Want to increase disk space ? Tick b…

Well you did say your data is lost when a disk fails, which is not true. Parent pointed out that for you. Yeah you pay for and get additional stuff with cloud. Nobody disputed that.

Post by pier25 » Sat, Apr 18, 2026, 7:08 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.