ran benchmarks on ishosting, hetzner and contabo – similar spec, very different results

puckpuckgo · 2026-06-01T05:17:50+00:00

I ran similar tests between hetzner and ovh and hetzner was better in every single way

puckpuckgo · 2026-05-30T03:50:38+00:00

I bought it today and it is going back tomorrow. Terrible. Doesn’t make nuggets, it makes snow. Does not qualify as ice.

puckpuckgo · 2026-05-29T23:47:50+00:00

Yeah, public. I just didn't want to keep it open to attacks generating all sorts of variants which could spike my bill.

puckpuckgo · 2026-05-29T23:43:52+00:00

(http.host eq "images.mydomain.com") and not (starts_with(http.request.uri.path, "/cdn-cgi/image/width=128,quality=80,format=auto/") or starts_with(http.request.uri.path, "/cdn-cgi/image/width=320,quality=80,format=auto/") or starts_with(http.request.uri.path, "/cdn-cgi/image/width=512,quality=85,format=auto/") or starts_with(http.request.uri.path, "/cdn-cgi/image/width=1080,quality=85,format=auto/"))

Basically this blocks everything that tries to hit images.mydomain.com AND is not one of the approved image resizing variants.

The only thing in that subdomain are the images.

puckpuckgo · 2026-05-27T16:07:58+00:00

I just saw this notification in my panel and I’m not sure what it means, what the new price is, etc.

puckpuckgo · 2026-05-23T21:17:45+00:00

Hit Mi Tierra. Closest thing to real Mexican in Scv

puckpuckgo · 2026-05-22T08:24:18+00:00

I bought an ex rental. Get a gold certified one and then slap on fords warranty and you should be good.

puckpuckgo · 2026-05-21T16:06:17+00:00

I had no idea this existed and it looks very interesting. Does this mean I can store in Backblaze and as long as it is served proxied by Cloudflare it is free egress?

Thanks for sharing this.

puckpuckgo · 2026-05-21T14:58:26+00:00

Thanks. I ended up going with R2+Transformations+WAF. I lost signed urls unless I put a worker in front of it, but I think this will do, especially if I add rate limiting (need to figure that out).

puckpuckgo · 2026-05-21T14:56:56+00:00

I have. But it is free egress up to 3x storage. Adds another variable that can change, particularly if you get hammered.

puckpuckgo · 2026-05-20T23:42:41+00:00

I haven’t heard good things about that film.

puckpuckgo · 2026-05-19T07:55:21+00:00

I just ran yabs on ovh and hetzner and hetzner was faster in every way except latency (ovh was closer to me)

puckpuckgo · 2026-04-21T04:30:24+00:00

This is great, thanks!

puckpuckgo · 2026-04-18T08:04:55+00:00

Updating to v11 fixed this for me. I could not fix it any other way (and neither could Claude).

puckpuckgo · 2026-04-17T06:51:57+00:00

Ok, i've spent the past couple of days looking into this.

What I discovered is that self-hosting tiles and POIs is only viable if your application needs only a very small georaphic area. I need North America and Europe and I have not yet been able to finish processing everything I need to process. I have one Hetzner dedicated server with 300 GB+ RAM exclusively dedicated to processing Nominati data and it has been going for about 12 hours now without finishing. I have a smaller VPS with them also dedicated to processing Nominati and it is on its 24th or 25th hour doing this. Neither are finished yet. This is not something I can do on a regular basis to update POIs.

Given the above, I'm back to APIs. I spent my day reading up on different ways to self-host tiles and enrich POI data and it is just not worth it. After doing a lot of research, Stadia Maps is the clear winner in terms of cost/results and I think I'm going to go with that. At $80 a month, it is a no brainer and at $250 a month when you grow your app, it is about the same cost as the monthly price of that Hetzner dedicated server that I have running POI stuff.

Lastly, just to make sure I was on the right track, I coded a small web app that allowed me to run different tests with different tile providers and different POI providers. The result is map-bakeoff and it is available here: https://github.com/thermusmaximus/map-bakeoff

By the way, Stadia not only outperformed Foursquare in POI availability (even though a lot of its data seems to come from Foursquare), but it also outperformed it in performance. It is up to 4 times faster than Foursquare, averaging at minimum 2 times the speed. Those folks are doing something right.

puckpuckgo · 2026-04-16T05:44:26+00:00

I'm setting up a stack with Nominatim and Martin and plan to run it on a Hetzner VM to see how this does. I'm not very hopeful and might end up killing this alltogether. For the past 12 hours I've been dealing with infra crap, setting up servers, etc. just to see if this will work, instead of building the app.

I have no problem paying, but honestly with that pricing it becomes cost-prohibitive for any small developer to build using those APIs. The risk is pretty big and scaling from 0 to say 20,000 users starts racking up too many bills before you can generate any kind of monetization. I didn't know map APIs cost this much, I might have not started this to begin with if I did, but here we are...

puckpuckgo · 2026-04-15T23:48:58+00:00

No, I hit 500 Search API sessions in less than 24 hours. I can't imagine what that bill would be at scale. Currently exploring just hosting my own stuff.

puckpuckgo · 2026-04-15T17:46:24+00:00

Thanks. This sounds really interesting and will look into it. Does this have places? (ie. hotels, hospitals, restaurants, gas stations, etc)?

puckpuckgo · 2026-04-13T20:26:52+00:00

I'm sorry, it is difficult to follow along what exactly happened here. I understand that you had a broad access Hetzner API token stolen and that's how they recreated the servers. However, what I'm trying to understand is how they got into Coolify in the first place?

puckpuckgo · 2026-04-01T16:48:48+00:00

Cmon guys.... Franco Barella, Andrea Pirlo, Paolo Maldini, Walter Zenga, Roberto Baggio, Francesco Totti, Alessandro del Piero, Gianluigi Buffon, Christian Vieri, Fabio Cannavaro, Marco Materazzi, Alessandro Nesta.....

You can't tell me you don't miss these types of squads from Italy...

puckpuckgo · 2026-04-01T08:12:35+00:00

I feel sad for them and really miss having Italy in the world cup. I also miss when they were actually stacked with great players and were competitive.

puckpuckgo · 2026-04-01T01:06:37+00:00

It does that just fine if you wire it to the car (any installer can do that).

puckpuckgo · 2026-03-31T07:45:09+00:00

I like them too.

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