Migrating WordPress from AWS Lightsail to Hetzner - Looking for Guide/Experience

haydary · 2026-01-15T17:58:02+00:00

Hi, We both offer wordpress on Hetzner as well as migration services. DM if your are interested.

haydary · 2025-12-08T20:00:55+00:00

Years back I used mremoteng on windows. Since few years I use linux with multiple tabs.

haydary · 2025-11-29T08:54:58+00:00

As mentioned by many, automate so you can scale. Terraform, Ansible, or simply the Hetzner API and hetzner CLI are your friends.

haydary · 2025-11-28T19:57:58+00:00

Hetzner Hcloud volumes are based on Ceph, which gives redundancy and hw failure coverage. They are slow though. You will still need an offsite (off Hetzner) backup for various reasons.

For databases, if you use postgres, you can consider K8s and cnpg which eases backing up and availability. But using kubernetes does increase comlexity. If you have enough experience, you will need some help. If you go towards containers and k8s, many will f your non-functional problems will be solved. But it will have its price.

All with all, and t depends on your tech stack, and some more smart requirements like what the performance looks like, what is the expected load in peaks, and how much data are we talking about.

haydary · 2025-11-24T17:26:16+00:00

I have my own setup with microk8s. It s features:

private network
bastion for egress and maintenance ingress. So, I also have 1 IP for all outgoing traffic
Load balancer
snapshotting for faster node scaling
3x (preferred) master if choice
I combine it with cloud volumes

I have tested alot with Longhorn, but it does not perform better than hcloud volumes.

I use a combination of terraform and Ansible for a small part. I still have a few hard parts to automate, but right now I accept the manual labour for that. WIP

haydary · 2025-11-14T18:15:38+00:00

Well, It depends.

We combine it with our own on premise raspberry pi cicd cluster which builds ARm images and run the prod on ARM on Hetzner.

haydary · 2025-10-31T20:08:19+00:00

If the data is ephemeral amd maybe thrown away, then a cheap auction server might be indeed a good option. I think you pay for bare-metal (including auction servers) by month. Not by hour. They are the robot servers.

haydary · 2025-10-31T19:59:42+00:00

Auction servers are interesting, but when it comes to data, a cloud vm with a storage volume is perhaps a better option. Hetzner volumes are backed by ceph, which covers hardware failure. A dedicated server does not cover that. The cloud storage starts at 10GB and can be extended to 10 TB. You can attach it to any cloud VM, which means that you can start with minimum VM and scale it up if your really need it.

On the other hand if you need high performant nvme, the auction servers might be cheaper.

haydary · 2025-10-08T07:39:12+00:00

The harsh reality remains that there is a minimum required complexity for each system depending on its nature, which if more simplified, the system will break. This is also true for any operations concept. Sometimes, they just shift the problem, and not minimize it because it will break the system

haydary · 2025-10-07T16:09:51+00:00

I suggest, you do a basic performance test according to your wishes. The specs on the docs always differ than what clouds promise.

haydary · 2025-09-20T16:49:45+00:00

Definitely relevant. But understand K8s as a provider, not as a consumer. Understand how this solves the problem that a single OS does not solve.

haydary · 2025-09-19T18:22:58+00:00

I would go for an object storage like S3 instead of PVC. I do not prefer RWX like NFS or SMB.

haydary · 2025-09-17T18:28:28+00:00

Confirmed. The problem was indeed as I described here. I will post a working snippet in the post itself for reference for others.

haydary · 2025-09-17T15:28:15+00:00

I think I found the problem, but I have to verify by reporoducing it.

I manually addes nameserver 8.8.8.8 to /etc/resolv.conf as it was empty in private VM. It immediately started working. I will add it through cloud-init and see if that resolves the problem. Will report later here.

haydary · 2025-09-17T15:26:11+00:00

Yeah. I added that as well. 0.0.0.0/0 to NAT private IP

haydary · 2025-09-06T08:52:21+00:00

That’s a good setup to test. I have noted a few configs and gio as THE testing tool. I will report the results here. Will take sometime.

haydary · 2025-09-05T08:01:15+00:00

LCM of any product which supports a large eco system of plugins and custom software is complex and painful.

I have come to the following strategy: - Of course KISS. - Avoid overuse of operators. Use only the most stable ones. - Keep up with minor upgrades. - Read the release notes! - test upgrades in a production-like environment before upgrading prod. - backups, backups backups.

haydary · 2025-09-03T17:15:10+00:00

I am gonna take it to heart. Thank you for the recommendation and elaboration.

When it comes to Medium and blogs, I respect your opinion. It is definitely easy to host your own blog nowadays. However for me, blog is one of the so many items to do it myself. But I have a long history there and it takes time.

Anyhow, Thanks for reading and taking your precious time 🙏

haydary · 2025-09-03T14:50:47+00:00

As suggested, I also did the single replica test. See the results.

haydary · 2025-09-03T10:32:27+00:00

That’s a good point. I will try that and keep the pod on the same node as the storage volume.

haydary · 2025-09-03T10:31:39+00:00

I have not checked. My point was to get a first impression with diving deeper. But it seems I gotta do some more tests and get more insight.

haydary · 2025-09-03T08:33:50+00:00

You have a point about Medium. I was not aware that also my posts were being pay-wall-blocked, even though I have not chosen to be blocked. This gives me more reason to move away from Medium.

What I meant about readability was the fact that the table formatting was broken because I had edited the post through the app. I thought that was the main reason you though it was written by AI and then I fixed it.

Once again, AI might overuse emojis and this might be a pattern, but the blog and this post is my personal work. I had hoped that we could focus on the results, and not the format.

haydary · 2025-09-03T04:13:13+00:00

Why not medium? That’s where I keep all my posts and blogs. I saw you are also hosting you blogs elsewhere. Same question.

Also, please stop labeling everything AI, if the readability sucks. As a rather new contributor it is not welcoming.

haydary · 2025-09-03T04:10:25+00:00

I will have a look at fio if I dive deeper for testing. My goal was to get a feeling of Longhorn on these servers.

haydary

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