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Cheap self-hosted Kubernetes on Hetzner cloud (2025)

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Re: Cheap self-hosted Kubernetes on Hetzner cloud (2025)

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Post by fabian2k »

rsyring wrote: post #3

My experience with Hetzner VM pricing has turned me off of considering them for anything else. Maybe the experience in other world regions is not the same but this is what happened to us: I started to use Hetzner's VM options in the Virginia, US datacenter. They had a great performance to cost ratio when I compared them to Linode/Akamai and Digital Ocean about a year ago. At that time, 4vcpu / 8GB server cost $24.99…

They're the first, I strongly doubt they'll be the last to adjust prices that much. The big cloud providers might have enough margins to eat the cost increases, especially since bare VMs are only a small part of their offer. But I don't see how the smaller, more VM-focused providers will be able to absorb the high hardware prices.

Re: Cheap self-hosted Kubernetes on Hetzner cloud (2025)

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Post by sixhobbits »

I've been running k3 on a single bigger hetzner dedicated machine to power https://demo.opensuite.online, a work-in-progress open source replacement for Google Workspace, a distribution of what the Dutch government is trying to switch to but they seemingly don't care about UX at all so I wanted to try build on their foundations (which in turn are basically just nextcloud, element, and some others).

Anyway can definitely recommend, it feels like a real cluster but it's all on a single piece of hardware which makes snapshots etc super simple.

Re: Cheap self-hosted Kubernetes on Hetzner cloud (2025)

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Post by Havoc »

Went a slightly different angle - Rasp 4s aren't impressing anyone these days, but 3 of them make for a fine HA controlplane. Once you've got a stable HA controlplane its much easier to connect whatever hardware you have lying around

(Just don't use SD cards...use M10 optanes). Also...Talos not k3s.

Re: Cheap self-hosted Kubernetes on Hetzner cloud (2025)

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Post by pstuart »

sixhobbits wrote: post #12

I've been running k3 on a single bigger hetzner dedicated machine to power https://demo.opensuite.online , a work-in-progress open source replacement for Google Workspace, a distribution of what the Dutch government is trying to switch to but they seemingly don't care about UX at all so I wanted to try build on their foundations (which in turn are basically just nextcloud, element, and some others). Anyway can defini…

> seemingly don't care about UX

That seems to be the case on every project with the folks that sign the checks or contracts for integrating other vendors.

I think Jobs was the rare exception there.

Re: Cheap self-hosted Kubernetes on Hetzner cloud (2025)

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Post by Havoc »

rsyring wrote: post #3

My experience with Hetzner VM pricing has turned me off of considering them for anything else. Maybe the experience in other world regions is not the same but this is what happened to us: I started to use Hetzner's VM options in the Virginia, US datacenter. They had a great performance to cost ratio when I compared them to Linode/Akamai and Digital Ocean about a year ago. At that time, 4vcpu / 8GB server cost $24.99…

You may have just caught the wrong end of it timing wise. They used to be super stable and cheap but being a low cost provider they have no real buffer to absorb even minor hikes let alone the shitshow we saw in ram/ssd.

Re: Cheap self-hosted Kubernetes on Hetzner cloud (2025)

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Post by input_sh »

I wanted to compare the prices to the current prices:

> That puts us up to €26,97 a month on our six machines so far.

The cost for this same calculation has risen to €41,94 for the exact same configuration (3x CX23, 3x CX33).

> These two additional load balancers (lb11) bump up the price with €5.39/mo.

lb11 is now €7,49 x 2 = €14,98

> A public IP address costs €1,70/mo which adds an additional €10,20

According to Hetzner's pricing page, this is now free on CX23, but costs an additional €0,50 on CX33.

> ...making our total €47,95/mo pre-VAT

€41,94 + €14,98 + €1,50 = €58,42, or roughly a 22% increase. Still over €10 cheaper than the prices the article quotes for a managed cluster on AWS/GCP, but as someone that does this for a living, €10-15 extra is a very negligible price to pay to avoid the amount of headaches you'll get by having to manage and upgrade the cluster yourself.

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