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I love Hetzner. Why not use their cloud offering? You can also combine that with dedicated servers if you need a lot of computation power. We use 4 VMs + on AX1
by marvinblum 4y ago
I love Hetzner. Why not use their cloud offering? You can also combine that with dedicated servers if you need a lot of computation power. We use 4 VMs + on AX161 in the same network for Pirsch [0] and it just works.
Spinning up a new VM takes a few seconds, just like on Azure, and ordering a dedicated server is only a click away if you really need it. So you get the best of both worlds.
I don't believe that you can be "too small" to save on infastructure. Hosting our setup on Google Cloud would probably cost 10x what we currently pay for, maybe more considering that our largest server has 32 physical cores...
[0] Blog article about our setup: https://pirsch.io/blog/techstack/ https://pirsch.io/blog/techstack/
- sgt 4y agoI'm using Hetzner cloud right now and it's affordable and quality is good. You can do snapshots and have monitoring, etc. If you're just running plain Linux VM's running some software without need for additional AWS-like services or fancy orchestration, it's good value for money. I also have a couple of dedicated Hetzner hosts - also remarkably stable, but it will of course take longer to rebuild if it goes down. You should have a continuity plan in place.
- marvinblum 4y agoYep, we'll add another database instance in the future. But 250€/month for the AX161 is something we first have to justify...
- sgt 4y agoBtw - your website looks really slick. I could easily understand the product by just casually browsing. And the site is fast too.
- marvinblum 4y agoThanks! It's always nice to hear positive feedback :)
- zeeZ 4y agofyi, both inline code snippets and full code blocks appear as as solid white blocks to me in light mode.
- marvinblum 4y agoOh, thanks for letting me know, we'll look into it!