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I've been running Pirsch [0] on Hetzner Cloud for 3 1/2 years now on a self-hosted HashiCorp Nomad cluster. It has been super stable and very cost-effective. Th
by marvinblum 2y ago
I've been running Pirsch [0] on Hetzner Cloud for 3 1/2 years now on a self-hosted HashiCorp Nomad cluster. It has been super stable and very cost-effective. The Hetzner VMs are really cheap and a lot more capable at the same time. You can find everything on our blog article [1].
In front of it are two Caddy load balancers, also running on VMs (Hetzner offers load balancers, but we wanted to support custom domains [2]).
The databases are running on root servers though, to get the maximum out of them.
When we started, we used Google Cloud. I think we would be paying at least $2,500/month for the same setup, compared to ~$400 now. And I have happily managed this all by myself. I think a proper sysadmin for a larger corp is worth the cost!
[0] https://pirsch.io https://pirsch.io
[1] https://pirsch.io/blog/techstack/ https://pirsch.io/blog/techstack/
[2] https://pirsch.io/blog/how-we-use-caddy-to-provide-custom-domains-for-our-clients/ https://pirsch.io/blog/how-we-use-caddy-to-provide-custom-do...
- LifeOverIP 2y agoI'm curious, how do you routinely test your backup and restore strategy / scripts?
- marvinblum 2y agoWe back up simple dumps to a Hetzner storage box (5€/month for 1 TB), which is fine for the moment. I download and restore the dumps locally regularly. In the future, we will need a more robust and scalable solution of course.