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My dev box died (that I used for remote work), and instead of buying something new immediately, I moved my setup to a Hetzner cloud vps. Took around 2 days. Stu
by dmos62 3y ago
My dev box died (that I used for remote work), and instead of buying something new immediately, I moved my setup to a Hetzner cloud vps. Took around 2 days. Stuff like setting up termux on my tablet and the cli environment on the vps was 90 percent of that. The plus side was that I then spent the remaining summer working outside in the terrace and in the park. Was awesome. I was able to do it because practically all of my tools are command line based (vim, etc).
- sweetjuly 3y agoHow much does this cost you? I've been dealing with a huge workstation-server thing for years in order to get this flexibility and while the performance/cost is amazing, reliability and maintenance has been a pain. I've been thinking about buying some cloud compute but an equivalent workstation ends up being crazy expensive (>$100/mo).
- dmos62 3y ago6 eur/month. It's the most basic offering. I don't really need power for what I'm doing. Running tests locally took a bit longer than I had been used to, but just a bit. I'm pretty used to underpowered environments though. I find that underpowering is a good way to enforce a sort of hygiene in terms of what you do and how.
- dinvlad 3y agoThere’s a crazy good deal for a dedicated server with 14-core/20-thread i5-13500 CPU and 64GB RAM, for just around 40 EUR/mo: https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-ex https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-ex This is honestly a bit overkill for a dev workstation (unless you compile Rust!), but since it’s a dedicated server it can also host any number of fully isolated services for homelab or saas. There’s nothing else like it in the wild, afaik.
- randomgiy3142 3y agoI’d be careful with Hetzner. I was doing nothing malicious and signed up. I had to submit a passport which was valid US. It got my account cancelled. I asked why and they said they couldn’t say for security reasons. They seem like an awesome service, I don’t want knock them I just simply asked if I could resubmit or something the mediate and they said no. I don’t blame them just be careful. I’m guessing my passport and face might have trigged some validation issues? I dunno.
- dmos62 3y agoThanks for the heads up. I had to provide a passport as well.
- ametrau 3y agoYou have to give a hosting company a copy of your passport?!? (And hope they delete it… eventually?)
- albert180 3y agoOnly if you triggered some risk checking systems. I didn't need to provide anything when I signed up this year.