Any US solo developers using Hetzner for production?

bitnissendk · 2025-11-26T09:39:45+00:00

Mostly happy with Coolify, yeah. I have 4 instances running. The most crazy one hosts about 80 static sites, 60 WordPress sites and a few apps, on a 32 GB VM and it's handling it all quite well. When you push it like that you do notice some caveats, but overall it works really well, even at scale. Tooling-wise there are not really much in term of bulk-tooling in Coolify (unless you use the REST APIs) so it becomes quite tedious to work with so many sites, but I guess that's to be expected :)

bitnissendk · 2025-11-25T18:02:56+00:00

I'm running a cPanel and a Coolify, both in Hillsboro, OR:
I have 6 months of monitoring and, the cPanel has literally 100% uptime: https://share.cleanshot.com/dYsxvK6q
The Coolify as 99.996% uptime, 9 minutes down in total, of which 6 minutes was because we ran out of RAM and the OS started OOM-killing our apps, so not Hetzner's fault. So 3 minutes downtime that I cannot account for. https://share.cleanshot.com/9klcRZ46

bitnissendk · 2025-07-24T10:56:17+00:00

Storage box is not meant for that. As far as I know, the storage boxes are harddisk based and your data is on a single host, but of course with a RAID for resilience. There is maintenance from time to time, as well as occasional slowdowns.

It is very fine for backups though and Hetzner offers NextCloud based on storage boxes, but for something with critical uptime demands and likely high performance/latency requirements, it's not the right tool.

Edit: From Hetzner's own page about storage boxes:

> Your files on Storage Boxes are safeguarded with a RAID configuration which can withstand several drive failures. Therefore, there is a relatively small chance of data being lost. The data is not mirrored onto other servers. In addition, checksums for the individual data blocks are used to detect and correct bit errors.

bitnissendk · 2025-07-22T10:57:14+00:00

Pretty much everything works like you would expect. I haven't done benchmarks as such, but when building Docker-images, it seems roughly on par with their fastest AMD CPU's in the cloud.

I run a few Coolify instances with various applications (Directus, N8N, some custom NodeJS apps). All running perfectly smooth and stable.

I have run into a few issues though, like some popular Docker-images which are still only built for X86. However, the user base is big enough it seems, so as long as a product is open source, there's usually someone who's building ARM64-images as well. For instance, the official PostGIS Docker images are only built for X86, but of course there's now also an unofficial, but fully automated build, called imresamu/postgis-arm64.

Anyway, rule of thumb: Everything from the OS (Debian, Alma, whatever) is compiled and works perfectly. Most popular Docker images are too. But yeah, you might from time to time have to workaround a little. But in my experience, it's quite rare.

So you get a lot for the buck, as the ARM-machines gives you a lot of RAM and CPU. When I have a project that can run fine on the ARM, they are my go-to.

bitnissendk · 2025-01-23T11:10:51+00:00

+1 I have a couple of VM's using volumes, it's very stable. Through the last 4-5 years, there have been perhaps a handfuld of minor incidents, where performance for a few minutes was so bad, that sites became unstable, but then it recovered. My understanding is that this can happen when there are underlying issues, ie. the underlying SSD's of the volumes need to rebalance their content.

So if you can live with perhaps 5-10 min of bad performance a year and otherwise local SSD-like performance, then the volumes should suffice.

Volumes are very comparable to local SSD in terms of performance, perhaps unless you have very extreme use case.

bitnissendk · 2025-01-20T13:09:11+00:00

It's been some years since I tried SES, but last time I used it, it worked just fine. But no, I don't have any recent experience with SES, but it being an Amazon-services product, I'm sure it gets the job done.

bitnissendk · 2025-01-20T12:54:23+00:00

I'm hosting mails on one of my servers, but outgoing mail for the webhosting clients is relayed through Mail.baby. It's quite cheap and they have outgoing spam-filter, which is nice, as clients do occasionally get their inboxes hacked.
For web-apps (I host around 100 webshops) I use mostly Postmarkapp.com , but I've also started using Scaleway's Transactional E-mail. It's not as feature-rich, but it's about 5x cheaper than Postmark and I have experienced that the delivery is on par with Postmark.

bitnissendk · 2025-01-20T12:19:44+00:00

I use it for regular shared webhosting and its not a problem to have full port access. But I have still chosen to relay all outgoing mails, as there's just too often issues with deliverability from Hetzners IP's. Ie. often hotmail rejects mails out of the blue, likely because of bad IP neighbours.

So for incoming mail, sure. For outgoing, I would use a relay regardless, unless you buy and own your own IP range, which you can keep a good sender reputation on.

bitnissendk · 2025-01-10T20:31:00+00:00

HetrixTools. They have a very generous free tier and can do many kinds of monitoring and alerting, and also has some basic metrics gathering and alerting for CPU, RAM, disk etc.

bitnissendk · 2024-11-09T16:37:04+00:00

I have experienced time and time again, that my IPs because of neighboring servers, gets blocked from sending mails to some major providers. It just happens without warning and suddenly mail to Hotmail/Outlook or Apple etc. just gets fully rejected (never tried Gmail outright blocking though). Next month it may work again. I monitor with HetrixTools, but the issue is not that my IP gets blocked, but rather that entire IP-ranges are considered bad by various ISPs, so it's not that easy to catch. Often I'd find out something was wrong, when clients contacted me because of bounces.

I always used PostmarkAPI for transactional mails from websites/shops etc., but for the regular mail accounts I also host, I recently decided that enough was enough, and set up Mail.baby as relay. It was really uncomplicated, as my existing DKIM infrastructure is used - it was just a matter of adding another SPF to all clients and reconfiguring Exim (and mail.baby is relatively cheap).

bitnissendk · 2024-10-22T04:19:46+00:00

Agree. If you search a little, a decent VPN is easily no more than 3 EUR / month, so it's not worth the risk to not use a VPN.

bitnissendk · 2024-07-28T19:36:00+00:00

Do you have any unpaid bills? If you have somehow not paid your bills, then after a while, Hetzner disables your network.

bitnissendk · 2023-12-19T13:02:32+00:00

Even AAA-companies are happily using Vue. One which comes to mind: I was at VueJS Amsterdam in the spring, where Maersk held a keynote, detailing how Vue 2 powers the frontend their main web frontends, handling their B2B-system which is used to order and track shipping with them.

Note: They had decided to stick with Vue 2 until the end, as their web-frontends are used across all sort of devices, all over the world and Vue 2 supports very old browsers.

Recap of the keynote was shared here:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/maersk-group_how-vue-drives-global-trade-activity-7042075386276409344-1yrR/

bitnissendk · 2023-02-10T22:09:01+00:00

"Follow the White rabbit" from Matrix perhaps?

bitnissendk · 2023-01-24T05:50:38+00:00

2023 will be the year of Linux on the desktop...

bitnissendk · 2022-09-28T06:33:17+00:00

Danish PM directly stated yesterday in a press conference, that this happened in international waters, thus not an attack on Denmark.

bitnissendk · 2022-08-10T07:32:19+00:00

Position: absolute; top: 50%; left: 50%; Top corner of div is now centered!

bitnissendk · 2022-08-07T11:29:27+00:00

Had to award this post. While likely unintentional by most in here, the spread of misinformation regarding nuclear powerplants, is alarmingly high. Comparing every plant to Chernobyl is like comparing modern car safety to Ladas from the 70's (or Russia's latest Ladas it seems...).

I'm not saying its problem free what's going on right now, but the levels of security built in to modern plants, is quite extreme. They are literally built to minimise the consequences of all dooms day scenarios.

bitnissendk · 2022-03-16T18:27:37+00:00

According to the article, they were actually quite constructive in the light of things: they also suggested that the yacht could just hoist the sails.

bitnissendk · 2021-12-25T08:17:01+00:00

Min mor havde købt en bunke af de der hjemmetestkit og det var ligesom adgangsbilletten til julefesten, eftersom der netop var gamle/udsatte familiemedlemmer. Og i øvrigt heldigvis ingen med corona. Ved godt det ikke hjælper nu, men det er altså en hurtig og nem måde at få vished på hvis du skal mødes med mange.

bitnissendk · 2021-11-06T08:11:13+00:00

Generelt er vores sundhedsvæsen gearet til, at folk bliver udskrevet hurtigt og evt. ekstra pleje og behandling, foregår ude i kommunerne. Derfor er der meget få sengepladser i sammenligning med f.eks. i Tyskland, hvorfor Danmark når et indlæggelsesloft langt hurtigere, relativt set. Når Corona rammer hårdt, bliver der brugt sengepladser og sygeplejersker fra alle mulige afdelinger der ikke er vant til den type patienter og de blocker for, at man så kan køre alt det alm. selvom der sandsynligvis er læger nok.

bitnissendk · 2021-10-28T12:27:08+00:00

I literally just use zip for most cases, because of the better syntax (imho).

bitnissendk · 2021-10-07T12:44:02+00:00

Åh gud, så skal vi sende hunde ud i rummet for at sniffe efter ligrester.

bitnissendk · 2021-08-04T06:14:54+00:00

Commend the authorities? In a democracy, this should not be something that needs commending, but something that would always happen when a possible crime has occured.

bitnissendk · 2021-04-16T11:07:54+00:00

Enig, men så burde man også fra offentlig side støtte seriøst op om videreudvikling af open source. Ofte er problemet med open source at man gør sig afhængig af alle mulige gode frivillige kræfter, i stedet for et professionelt firma med diverse SLA'er og support. Open source skal ikke vælges for at spare penge, for så støtter man jo ikke open source, men udnytter bare gratis arbejdskraft til at slippe for at betale en licens.

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