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Doing my bit: migrating my small company's db this weekend from AWS RDS to Hetzner VPS + volumes. Fingers crossed! Already done: replaced SendGrid with Sweego.

by 202508042147 9mo ago

Doing my bit: migrating my small company's db this weekend from AWS RDS to Hetzner VPS + volumes. Fingers crossed! Already done: replaced SendGrid with Sweego. Later: move domains from US registrar to EU based. The difficult bit is the Microsoft Office because we are also using Azure DevOps for code, tickets, wiki and ci/cd.

toomuchtodo 9mo ago
What EU based registrars would you recommend?
- wolvoleo 9mo ago
  For me personally, one that's well supported by DNS-01 providers for let's encrypt. Unfortunately there's not that many and often the process is broken.
  - progbits 9mo ago
    What does that have to do with registrar? You are talking about DNS zone hosting which can be separate. And I always prefer to keep it that way.
    - wolvoleo 9mo ago
      It can be separate yes but I generally keep it the same for simplicity
- 202508042147 9mo ago
  I haven't looked into this yet, so I cannot recommend. I'll work my way through the list here: https://european-alternatives.eu/category/domain-name-registrar https://european-alternatives.eu/category/domain-name-regist...
- mindhunter 9mo ago
  https://www.inwx.de/en https://www.inwx.de/en
- 202508042147 9mo ago
  Hetzner might be a good choice to keep things together, as we're already using some services from them.
  - celsoazevedo 9mo ago
    I like Hetzner, but I'd avoid having everything under the same provider. Sometimes hosting companies suspend accounts. If that happens, it's useful to have your domains and backups with different providers.
- layer8 9mo ago
  SchlundTech
- ricardo81 9mo ago
  I wouldn't hard recommend based on lack of solid experience of using them over time, but Gandi showed a lot of promise for me. Context: I used to run a domain-related service that used registrar api's and gandi's seemed the most well thought out by a considerable way. The drawback was they're quite expensive for registrations/renewals unless you're doing it at volume. I had reservations about them being a French company wrt support but their API was so good I never needed to contact them on anything. Definitely worth a look.
- s_dev 9mo ago
  https://european-alternatives.eu/category/domain-name-registrar https://european-alternatives.eu/category/domain-name-regist... It's all in there.
- throwaway5465 9mo ago
  netim.com
- kergonath 9mo ago
  I’ve been using Gandi for quite a few years now without any trouble.
testing22321 9mo ago
Me too. Just moved all my hosting and dbs from a US company to Hertzner after 15 years of good service. Moving domains now.
esperent 9mo ago
Gradually moving over from Teams to Hetzner + Nextcloud over the past year. The chat app is the blocker (Nextcloud Talk is not quite there yet). But we've moved over files, docs, calendar, photos, etc.
angristan 9mo ago
Unfortunately Hetzner volumes have pretty low iops for databases
- 202508042147 9mo ago
  We have a small database with low access rates. We'll be fine, at least for a while.

toomuchtodo 9mo ago

What EU based registrars would you recommend?

wolvoleo 9mo ago
For me personally, one that's well supported by DNS-01 providers for let's encrypt. Unfortunately there's not that many and often the process is broken.
- progbits 9mo ago
  What does that have to do with registrar? You are talking about DNS zone hosting which can be separate. And I always prefer to keep it that way.
  - wolvoleo 9mo ago
    It can be separate yes but I generally keep it the same for simplicity
202508042147 9mo ago
I haven't looked into this yet, so I cannot recommend. I'll work my way through the list here: https://european-alternatives.eu/category/domain-name-registrar https://european-alternatives.eu/category/domain-name-regist...
mindhunter 9mo ago
https://www.inwx.de/en https://www.inwx.de/en
202508042147 9mo ago
Hetzner might be a good choice to keep things together, as we're already using some services from them.
- celsoazevedo 9mo ago
  I like Hetzner, but I'd avoid having everything under the same provider. Sometimes hosting companies suspend accounts. If that happens, it's useful to have your domains and backups with different providers.
layer8 9mo ago
SchlundTech
ricardo81 9mo ago
I wouldn't hard recommend based on lack of solid experience of using them over time, but Gandi showed a lot of promise for me. Context: I used to run a domain-related service that used registrar api's and gandi's seemed the most well thought out by a considerable way. The drawback was they're quite expensive for registrations/renewals unless you're doing it at volume. I had reservations about them being a French company wrt support but their API was so good I never needed to contact them on anything. Definitely worth a look.
s_dev 9mo ago
https://european-alternatives.eu/category/domain-name-registrar https://european-alternatives.eu/category/domain-name-regist... It's all in there.
throwaway5465 9mo ago
netim.com
kergonath 9mo ago
I’ve been using Gandi for quite a few years now without any trouble.

testing22321 9mo ago

Me too. Just moved all my hosting and dbs from a US company to Hertzner after 15 years of good service. Moving domains now.

esperent 9mo ago

Gradually moving over from Teams to Hetzner + Nextcloud over the past year. The chat app is the blocker (Nextcloud Talk is not quite there yet). But we've moved over files, docs, calendar, photos, etc.

angristan 9mo ago

Unfortunately Hetzner volumes have pretty low iops for databases

202508042147 9mo ago
We have a small database with low access rates. We'll be fine, at least for a while.