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Re: Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner

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Post by ies7 »

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.

> You saved a lot of money but you'll spend a lot of time in maintenance and future headaches.

Look from my perspective, I'll got flying color from my owner because of the cost saving and got my team morale up that I really need them to maintain the system instead of lay them off.

Also in some cases that also mean new jobs opening.

Re: Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner

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Post by rrvsh »

stephenhuey wrote: post #307
pier25 wrote: post #289

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know about Hetzner but with Upcloud and Vultr my single VPS setups have been more reliable than multiregion with redundancy setups with other providers like Fly.

A few weeks ago, I tested deploying Rails apps to Hetzner and Vultr for the first time using Hatchbox to deploy Rails apps onto them. I'm still supporting clients on Heroku, but there are potential new projects in the coming months that I might deploy elsewhere. Render is decent in some cases, but you can get a lot of bang for your buck deploying on Vultr, and Hatchbox makes it easy to do, whether you have one instan…

Vultr is goated, I've been using them since ~2020 and have never had any issues. I stopped a year or so back and recently went through the whole onboarding process again and it was dead simple even 6 years later, with barely any price increase compared to other providers. Hetzner will always be the worst to me because plainly their UX sucks; I can't imagine if I was a non-technical user trying to use it

Re: Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner

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Post by pbgcp2026 »

fuckinpuppers wrote: post #339
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…

Linode is going to lose my business in the next couple months as well. Been there over a decade, have referred countless customers to them, but they’ve kept bumping up prices over and over and I can get a dedicated server at Hetzner or other places with 8x the memory, dedicated NVMe disks, dedicated CPU for cheaper. Sure you lose a little of the benefit of a “virtual” server which can be migrated but Hetzner’s suppor…

... expect Hetzner raising prices in ... 3 ... 2 ... 1

Re: Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner

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Post by pbgcp2026 »

drewnick wrote: post #326
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…

I too, am bravely using Claude for more DevOps. I run all of my virtual machines on proxmox atop bare metal servers I own and I’m just blown away at how quickly Claude can optimize and set up entire new networks across all of these machines. Truly feels like a coworker or well paid sysadmin.

"servers I own" - that's a temporary glitch and AI will fix it for ... someone else.

Re: Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner

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Post by pbgcp2026 »

oulipo2 wrote: post #252
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…

Sure, and then you realize it deleted the db to "simplify the migration" lol Obviously I agree that AI can be useful to write boilerplate, but it's in no way something you should use blindly when trying to do a migration or anything touching prod So, to be more precise: no, "Claude Code didn't migrate it all". Claude Code helped you write boilerplate so that you could migrate

it deleted the db to "simplify the migration". That was real scenario of at least one Sev 1 outages in "leading cloud provider".

Re: Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner

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Post by EasyMark »

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 doubt if someone who has 30000+ karma waited for this precise post to submit a "clever" claude ad surreptitiously to draw you in.

Re: Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner

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Post by apatheticonion »

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.

I've been running a production workload for a cost sensitive customer on a small cheap Vultr VPS for 10 years.

Updates have zero downtime and there's lots of compute headroom so it never locks up.

No, there's no redundancy and it is only performant in a single region - but that's okay with the customer as it's just a custom CRM.

Not every use case requires Kubernetes, multiple nodes, dedicated database infra and auto-scaling.

Re: Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner

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Post by TurdF3rguson »

faangguyindia wrote: post #359
TurdF3rguson wrote: post #332

Hetzner oversells hardware which means your neighbors are a drag on your performance. If your server is mostly idle, this might be a good move. If not, it probably won't be worth it.

It will still outpeform VPS of similar specs. Hetzner cannot outsell your CPU or SSD VMs on cloud can.

> Hetzner cannot outsell your CPU or SSD

On dedicated server they can't but we're talking about VPS (cloud plan)

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