Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner • Hacker News Board

Re: Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner

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Post by fortyseven » Tue, Apr 21, 2026, 9:40 AM UTC

tannhaeuser wrote: post #97

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…

Not every fscking story has to be about AI.

You are going to have a hard time living in the future.

Re: Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner

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Post by subscribed » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 10:48 AM UTC

wiether wrote: post #177

subscribed wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Scam? You mostly get what you pay for. Sure, it cost me £6/mo to serve ONE lambda on AWS (and perhaps 500 requests per month). Sure it was awesome and "proper". But crazy expensive. I host it now (and 5 similar things) for free on Cloudflare. But if you need what AWS provides, you'll get that. And that means sometimes it's not the most cost-effective place.

> Sure, it cost me £6/mo to serve ONE lambda on AWS (and perhaps 500 requests per month) I went on pricing calculator, and to arrive at $6/mo with only 500 requests, you'd need to run the lambda for 15 minutes with 2Gb of RAM. On the other hand, we have dozens production workloads on Lambda handling thousands of requests daily and we spend like $50/mo on Lambda. I'm really intrigued by what you did to get to those fi…

On top of lambda and CF (if I remember correctly) I got the WAF and something else slapped on silently. Sorry, don't remember the details. It was basically a tiny tiny "project", entirely within the free tier -- until it wasn't because non-free components have been added to it.

I learned about that form the billing.

Re: Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner

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Post by Undrilled1 » Thu, Apr 23, 2026, 2:59 PM UTC

utopiah wrote: post #102

Migrated from OVH to Hezner last Winter too, 0 downtime since, rolling backup running fine and lower bill too.

Why? prices of OVH are very similar to Hezner one, both have phisical server ecc

Re: Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner

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Post by tayloremilija9 » Sat, Apr 25, 2026, 8:19 AM 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.

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