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Hetzner load balancers don't have any auto scaling feature which is a pretty critical requirement for any load balancer product in 2024.

• ffsm8 2y ago
  Im pretty sure you're vastly underestimating the amount of performance you get from today's hardware. You won't be a small team by the time you're at a scale to need horizontal scaling. Only the biggest consumer facing/social media sites get value from that.
  • whalesalad 2y ago
    If you cannot tolerate downtime you need a redundant load balancer and you need nodes in different datacenters. Scale really doesn't matter in this equation. Now maybe you don't need five-nine's so then the risk is worth keeping it simple.
    • ffsm8 2y ago
      Both of which hetzner has? Did you skip the previous comment entirely?
      • whalesalad 2y ago
        I read it. Historically Hetzner has been popular in the dedicated server space. I cannot speak to their IAAS/cloud offerings, I have never used them. I will take them for a spin, though, seeing as it is really the only way to use their services in the US with good latency.