You can use HAProxy on a cheap shared Hetzner server (2GB or RAM will be plenty for it) as an alternative for Hetzner LB. It will give you more flexibility and

You can use HAProxy on a cheap shared Hetzner server (2GB or RAM will be plenty for it) as an alternative for Hetzner LB. It will give you more flexibility and dynamic scaling [1] without downtime (plus it has very good management API through socat). Even if you use a hard hacks, like updating the HAPproxy config through Ansible and reloading it, HAProxy will not terminate running connections but redirect requests to live backends. [1] https://www.haproxy.com/blog/dynamic-scaling-for-microservices-with-runtime-api https://www.haproxy.com/blog/dynamic-scaling-for-microservic...