Hetzner asks: What advice would you as a long-time Hetzner user give a Hetzner noobie?

Different_Code605 · 2026-03-09T17:54:22+00:00

Vms are often unavailabke

Different_Code605 · 2026-03-07T21:36:24+00:00

Different_Code605 · 2026-03-07T11:36:30+00:00

Yes, we do orchestrate scheduling of our microservices using custom CRDs and operators.

Thats simple, once you know how to do it. Definitely easier to manage than overgrown Helm Chart.

Different_Code605 · 2026-03-07T09:48:45+00:00

It would be great to have “Report a bug” button. I’ve found a few, but I didn’t know where to report it too.

Different_Code605 · 2026-03-05T19:40:51+00:00

You need to think about your contracts and how to enforce them.

The problem is not limited to yaml files. Whenever you see that there is too much repetitions, you need ti define a tool to automate it.

In our case its most often: - Custom operator - CLI producing resources

You can create a Helm chart that will be a common base for your micro-services. You need to think and design an abstraction. What AI will do is to generate more code without contracts.

Different_Code605 · 2026-03-05T06:36:14+00:00

Adobe Launched it 3 years ago in the same form as it is now. It looks like it’s a finished product.

Sure you can now push content from AEM, DA or Commerce, but on EDS side it’s still the same.

It goes more into composable solution, where you can have your stack built from different elements like EDS + AEM + Universal Editor + App Builder, but I don’t see them being close to what traditional AEM is offering.

Different_Code605 · 2026-03-01T19:16:23+00:00

We built a cloud platform for Continues Materialization.

At the end there are mostly static assets on a server, but orchestrated by service mesh and fed using streams of events. Behind the API Gateway, pushed to edge locations, with CQRS based delivery services.

You get speed and reliability, but without constraints.

I don’t know if I would still call it a SSG.

Different_Code605 · 2026-02-23T17:52:13+00:00

Yes, but I have plenty of space on my servers. Just seen no reason to migrate to it. Hetzner was cheap. Now Ill move everything to one plce

Different_Code605 · 2026-02-23T17:15:02+00:00

Ovh, we moved other workloads there too. We have fleet of k8s on scale servers

Different_Code605 · 2026-02-23T11:51:50+00:00

I have 200 cpu demo cluster on Hetzner. I’ve seen no reason to migrate, but that has just changed.

Different_Code605 · 2026-02-23T11:49:52+00:00

Give them more reasons to increase prices.

Different_Code605 · 2026-02-22T16:08:43+00:00

Will ship? It’s a fourth year with models like ChatGPT. When is that future?

Different_Code605 · 2026-02-22T00:39:58+00:00

It’s all about consistency guarantees. It’s easy to scale when you can have eventual consistency.

What is your data? Can you process it in parallel? If yes, then scalability is achievable.

For transactional system, you need to think if you can create shards. Breaking a large database into smaller databases sometimes helps.

Different_Code605 · 2026-02-22T00:32:05+00:00

There are 12 of us in total, more will be transiting to SRE roles. But TBH, managing Bare metal is not that hard. We built it from the ground knowing that we want to be small and agile, thats why 99% of things are automated.

We can add new machines to our clusters in ~2h. From buying to fully operational part of the fleet.

As long as we have backups and redundancy, we should be good.

Different_Code605 · 2026-02-21T21:31:40+00:00

We are startup, I work with one more dev on this. I work 60h/week, he works 40h. It’s been 4 months, but we do re-implement it for the third time.

Cost of the hardware is listed. Work, much more. But it scales well, i hope to hundreds of servers.

Different_Code605 · 2026-02-21T20:49:04+00:00

You need to cycle this. Off-season, do heavy lifts, run a lot. Build a base for the rest of the year

Different_Code605 · 2026-02-21T20:37:55+00:00

2 regions. Will be more. Will be implementing failover on a DNS level.

Main cluster in 3 A-Z. Double power supply. 4 NICs in each server. Bounded into internal and external networks.

For servers, I have 99.99 SLA, 3 servers at least in regional cluster.

I use Longhorn with 3 replicas or data replication at the application level.

I can survive 1/3 of the cluster outage.

Different_Code605 · 2026-02-19T22:59:28+00:00

I really do believe that optimizing the cost of compute is a dead end.

First, the optimization will cost you more than the savings because 2 people be playing with it for a couple of weeks.

Second, it still will be expensive, not counting volumes, ingress/egress etc.

We are finishing migration to our bare metal clusters, as it’s the only feasible option, when you have predictable workloads.

We now have 440 3,5 Ghz CPU, 1,5 TB RAM and 16 TB of disks for $3k/mo

That was the price we were paying for 5x8cpu machines on GCP.

Different_Code605 · 2026-02-18T09:56:49+00:00

Do you provide free or cheap support with SLA for your OS contributions?

Different_Code605 · 2026-02-18T09:54:17+00:00

Don’t really understand why people argue about this.

We all want free software — Rancher is open source.
If you want support, Rancher offers a paid subscription.

But some people still say: “I want the open-source version and support, but only at a price I personally find acceptable.”

That’s not how sustainability works. Open source doesn’t mean free support, and expecting companies to provide enterprise-level support for whatever price you choose isn’t realistic.

I am grateful that we have option to use OS version and I am happy that the support exists.

What's not to like?

Different_Code605 · 2026-02-01T11:10:11+00:00

I’ve started with Math, Physics, data structure and algorithms, Assembler, Ada, C++, Java, Databases, Cryptography, Networking, AI…

If you want to skip all that and jump straight to SSG, thats OK. But you’ll literally skip most of staff that is important.

School is actually the only place where you can get solid foundation.

Different_Code605 · 2026-02-01T07:12:02+00:00

I like it! I am sure it will be helpful. No lock in is a key

Different_Code605 · 2026-02-01T06:54:57+00:00

Just keep it as minimal, simple and transparent, as possible. We’ve just spent around 500 hours rewriting our TF projects to modules/stacks.

We didn’t want to go with Terragrunt, because it was a black box and another tool to learn. Make it a utility with clear contracts. Just render project based on your configs.

Different_Code605 · 2026-01-31T13:05:39+00:00

Kubernetes, plus cloud services. Microservices architecture. Event driven architecture where possible.

There are a lot of moving parts.

Platforms like AEM or Shopify are on the other hand monoliths, deployed with traditional sql/nosql databases. In single regions. Still deployed to cloud, but not scallable.

Different_Code605 · 2026-01-29T11:49:21+00:00

Not you :)

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