231–240 of 454 posts
They're great but I wish Hetzner had a US (or CA) east coast presence, the latency of going across the ocean is really troublesome. They have some presence for their cloud offering, so they at least have some experience with the idea.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's an average of 8GB per database, I guess he serves multiple clients and decided to "segregate" each client on its instance. If it's acceptable for the business it's nothing wrong with his setup.
> Several live mobile apps serving hundreds of thousands of users It seems like he's having a database for each app.
Congrats on doing this successfully, but your setup is amateur. This would have been infinitely easier if you were using IaC (Terraform/Ansible), containerized applications (that you're not already doing that is madness), and had a high-availability cluster setup in place already. It sounds like avoiding downtime is important to you, yet there's no redundancy in the existing stack at all, and everything is done by ha…
Or just nix. The new hardware deployment would have been one nixos-build or colmena call, not accounting for the data migration of course.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I feel like 95% of the web falls into this category. Like, have you ever said "That's it, I am never gonna visit this page again!", because of temporary downtime? Unless you are Amazon and every minute costs you bazillions, you are likely gonna get the better deal not worrying about availability and scalability. That 250€/m root server is a behemoth. Complete overkill for most anything. As a bonus, you are gonna be h…
Exactly. I've never not bought something because the website was temporarily down. I've even bought from b&h photo! Even if Amazon was down, if I was planning to buy, I'd wait. heck, I got a bunch of crap in my cart right now I haven't finished out. Intentional downtime lets everyone plan around it, reduces costs by not needing N layers of marginal utility which are all fragile and prone to weird failures at times yo…
> Intentional downtime lets everyone plan around it, reduces costs by not needing N layers of marginal utility which are all fragile and prone to weird failures at times you don't intend.
Quite frankly, I would manage if things were run "on-supply" with solar and would just go dark at night.
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 always appreciate savings posts, but is $14k USD annual really make or break for a Turkish business? I would not know.
That's not the point. You should be asking why DO is so much more expensive. Not everyone likes wasting money.
Certainly the former is more predictable than the latter though.
Choosing to do neither is wasting money.