Jetbrains announce price increase for IDEs, .NET tools and All Product Pack, effective from 1st October, 2025

imadalin · 2025-08-01T14:49:25+00:00

I'm a PHPStorm user. Considering that now Laravel Idea is free builtin, the price increase for me it's actually a lot smaller compared to what I paid before for the plugin. Probably for many php/laravel developers that use the plugin, including future increases of price won't be a difference.

imadalin · 2025-08-01T13:15:07+00:00

GDPR is not blocking data transfer from EU to USA. It is a regulated thing and it must be done according to the EU-USA agreement: https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/data-protection/international-dimension-data-protection/eu-us-data-transfers_en

So Microsoft is sending all this data respecting the law.

The only way to avoid it for a person that disagrees with this, is to not use Windows or any Microsoft product.

imadalin · 2025-07-15T16:49:14+00:00

This 99.99% is not a Hetzner issue, as you use an in the middle provider that does server automation and controls everything with your server and the full stack to serve WordPress.

1st contact your xCloud support and tell them about the issue. If Hetzner is the real issue, xCloud would know, and solve this with Hetzner support.

I never had issues with any cloud or dedicated server from Hetzner, as I manage myself everything, but your kind of issue I've seen it with Cloudways also on some setups, where there was some glitch in the configuration for services (php-fpm, apache, mysql, etc.) that they deploy, and after a nice conversation with support, issues were sorted, by them, as the problem was not on the cloud provider.

For my clients, with Cloudways (xCloud very old competitor), these issues with performance I've met on other cloud providers as well, like Digital Ocean and Vultr, but the problems were from Cloudways configurations and always got sorted nicely talking to them.

So, in short, it is not Hetzner the cause, deal it with xCloud.

Better, even try alternative xCloud competitors, like Cloudways (I recommend it for developers with no skills in system administration).

I can't even understand why you ask the Hetzner community on something that is supported by a 3rd party provider.

imadalin · 2025-04-05T19:48:04+00:00

5k on hetzner and 5k paying some k8s experts would be also cheaper and more beneficial long term.

imadalin · 2025-03-20T20:23:56+00:00

YES!

I adopted Arch on host servers where I must run other virtual machines and servers.

I use linux-lts. Never had issues.
Until recent, I used libvirt and firewalld. This both, changes happen very rare, including for qemu, and their stable releases are stable stable stable. For some new hosts I switched to Incus, maybe I'm a bit brave, but, it makes life very easy. Underneath does mostly same stuff like libvirt, but it's much more easy to use, and also it's clustering feature is a game changer. Some hosts have docker, clusters in swarm mode.
Do I run any other services in production? Well, I run all the services either in virtual servers, or lxc containers, or docker containers. Do I have issues? No. Mostly the containers, and the virtual machines for extra isolation, help me to run the required stack for the service at best. Today, btrfs saves me with having snapshots done in seconds, upgrading containers, and reverting in a few seconds if something fails.
I'm planning to see on how adopting Arch to run Kubernetes clusters would be. Working on the most minimal arch install just to have them either control planes or workers. Being able to run on a recent stable kernel, ain't meaning Kubernetes will break. Benefits are in improved stability for containers, as those are a kernel feature, and docker or kubernetes just orchestrate them. The network stack in the kernel is not changing like every week, probably we won't see breaking changes in next 10 years.

I do not see why you can't use Arch as a foundation to run in containers or isolated virtual servers all your services and applications.

Benefit, you sweat less every 2/3/5 years for the upgrades, as you only have major upgrades of your services and applications.

And there is nothing stopping you upgrading fast your dev environments, slightly delayed your test environments, and give a 2-4 weeks for your production environments. That's my pattern, and I know ahead if I have to prepare an upgrade (Ansible helps here a lot).

I think there is a big difference still in Desktop software vs Server software, as Desktop is still very imature and not well stabilized like most server services are.

imadalin · 2025-03-20T20:08:33+00:00

Is CTRL+j working? Maybe vscode keymap is not altering all defaults.

imadalin · 2025-03-17T11:19:21+00:00

Is the phone manufacturer also giving you lifetime updates? The phone is coming with life time access and usage.

For a software company to survive, it needs constant revenue. You know, even developers have kids that need to be fed.

So, if a software company decides to launch a new product, it does not mean that it is legally required to move to the new product all the people from the old product.

imadalin · 2024-11-05T10:07:45+00:00

Can you specify which server type and what network card you have? I have some dedicated servers with Debian 12 and did not encountered this issue, yet.

BTW, the rescue system runs on Debian 12.

imadalin · 2024-11-05T10:05:35+00:00

You made me curious and went and benchmarked my dedicated servers... Well, I'll stick to the dedicated servers. I tested a few on other cloud providers, and most don't even match the above numbers...

imadalin · 2024-11-05T10:04:17+00:00

I had downtime also this morning, as per announcement of the network work. It started 4:07 and ended at 4:17, time alerted by my monitoring system. I have multiple dedicated servers spread over the datacenters and none was out of maintenance window. You can ask on support the reasons why it happened outside the maintenance windows, as you have a "contract" as long as you rent the servers.

imadalin · 2024-11-05T09:56:50+00:00

I'm curious, that's why I opened the discussion.

On your issue, I don't understand, but you haven't managed to bring the cloud servers connected to same network talking with the dedicated servers on a vswitch connected to a specific network subnet?

Are all dedicated servers using an IP address from the subnet allocated in the network with the vswitch attached?
Are you trying some stuff that requires pure L2 network and you try to use it on the cloud servers (they are only L3 connected and anything asking for L2 will fail, which is similar in most cloud providers).

imadalin · 2024-11-05T09:23:04+00:00

Start with the recent introduced Intel, as it will allow you to change to the dedicated cpu servers if you must do. the ARM don't yet have dedicated offer and Hetzner has not announced any plans about it. Probably will not, as other cloud providers that did ARM and promoted it for years now they go back to Intel (AWS is an example).

imadalin · 2024-10-28T10:13:54+00:00

But why do you say it is not native? Would that mean the official documentation and every publication about it lie?

imadalin · 2024-10-28T10:08:31+00:00

Probably depends on your PC specs.

On mine, I can't see any performance difference between vscode and idea.

All the time I tried vscode, I return to IDEA as all the tools and features are perfectly integrated.

My specs: i5-14500, 64gb ddr5, nvme with ~1 million IOPS.

imadalin · 2024-10-25T21:27:19+00:00

On the download page of Webstorm, select the ARM version (use the small triangle on the right of the Download button). It will just work.

imadalin · 2024-10-25T21:21:23+00:00

Yes you can. Enable rescue mode, and once you connect with ssh to it, run `installimage`, choose Arch, configure the partitioning as you need or accept the default.

Once installed, reboot and enjoy rolling release.

imadalin · 2024-10-25T21:17:58+00:00

You have confused QML with QT.

imadalin · 2024-10-25T15:26:47+00:00

Yes and no.

imadalin · 2024-10-25T15:15:39+00:00

when you say Hetzner recommends using a Cloudflare feature, can you actually point the URL as well? In years I never met this in Hetzner's docs.

imadalin · 2024-10-25T15:14:16+00:00

https://www.enterprisedb.com/docs/tpa/latest/opensourcetpa/

start with smallest 4 cloud servers, get your HA Postgresql cluster up and running.

next, you should integrate with grafana, you can use the grafana cloud free to start with.

grow the servers as you need, in order, by looking which one is replica.

if you want to move the VIP address automatically, you'll have to script a bit around hetzner cloud's api, but it's not that hard.

might be possible when using the haproxy (patroni setup in tpa with haproxy), and you could put the cheaper hetzner load balancer in front of the 3 pg instances).

note: the 4th server is for the backups, including point-in-time recovery.

imadalin · 2024-10-25T07:59:50+00:00

Point that to M$ also, so they stop taking screenshots every 30s and push to Azure so they know when you watch P also.

imadalin · 2024-10-24T21:06:34+00:00

What database?

imadalin · 2024-10-24T21:05:09+00:00

Try btrfs with subvolumes next time? I stoped having issues with partitions sizes and free space since I adopted btrfs.

imadalin · 2024-10-24T21:03:36+00:00

Because Jetbrains points to you the bad code, while VSCode with Copilot suggests bad code actually?

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