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Comment by karlerss

3 years ago

I'll add a +1 to managed database product. We've migrated all workloads except main application servers to Hetzner. Having a managed DB service (with backups, point-in-time recovery, etc) would have us quitting AWS in an instant.

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aflukasz  3 years ago

I was considering something similar and then found this: https://gist.github.com/frozenice/fafb1565f8299a888f94d11137... (benchmarking Hetzner's cloud volumes, with unfavorable comments from people trying PG and MySQL deployments).

I emphasize that I personally did not run any such tests, yet. But was wondering, since this is Hetzner thread, that maybe someone can share their experience, in particular comparing AWS's gp2/gp3 based deployments vs Hetzner's volumes.

I would also add that on AWS, for example, you can nearly seamlessly expand EBS volumes in size without downtime. Last time I checked, not an option on Hetzner - you must take care of expanding the file system yourself. Which makes sense, as Hetzner is more basic service, but it's worth remembering that there are various differences like that, when comparing the day to day operations between such providers.

  • tpetry  3 years ago

    > I was considering something similar and then found this: https://gist.github.com/frozenice/fafb1565f8299a888f94d11137... (benchmarking Hetzner's cloud volumes, with unfavorable comments from people trying PG and MySQL deployments).

    Network volumes always have lower iops than local disks. Thats expected, except when you pay a huge price.

    > I emphasize that I personally did not run any such tests, yet. But was wondering, since this is Hetzner thread, that maybe someone can share their experience, in particular comparing AWS's gp2/gp3 based deployments vs Hetzner's volumes.

    AWS GP3 has a baseline performance of 3000 iops, and from there on you have to pay for each iop/s. To reach the performance of hetzner volumes you have to add 20$/month. But with AWS you can get higher than the hetzner value. But the iops performance of the dedicated machine is not possible with gp3 (max. 16k, compared to hetzner 30-40k for local disks).

    With io2 devices you can get higher than 16k iops, and higher than the hetzner local disk.

    https://aws.amazon.com/de/ebs/general-purpose/