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Comment by yread

9 days ago

There can only be so many "I saved 10x by moving to Hetzner" posts before they pick up the value they were leaving on the table...

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tda  9 days ago

I literally migrated last week, and saved 8x by ditching AWS for Hetzner.

  • theshrike79  9 days ago

    Just out of curiosity, which parts of AWS were you using? EC2 and something else?

    It's very simple to move when you're just using AWS as a source for VPS capacity, but when you've got lambda functions, S3, SQS, RDS and other nice acronyms in the mix the ditching becomes a lot harder to justify.

    • tda  6 days ago

      I was using fargate, route 53, managed postgres. Also the container registry i think. Not nothing, not too complicated

speedgoose  9 days ago

I moved to Scaleway one or two price upgrades ago. Be ready to see the same, but with OVH or Scaleway instead.

ffsm8  9 days ago

The same will happen with the other providers.

Hetzner just achieved their pricing by using commodity consumer hardware.

This is now making them the canary, as they don't have the multi year business contacts the others have - so they're uniquely vulnerable to the current consumer hardware price increase.

But the rest will follow, unless the bubble burst, which is unlikely to happen before the others increase their costs, too

roncesvalles  9 days ago

It was never the same quality though. A VM at AWS or GCP is not even remotely comparable to a VPS at some low-end provider. Things like RAID, network/powersupply redundancy, internal privacy controls (nothing stopping a VPS provider from snooping in your filesystem), software patch quality, noisy neighbor mitigation, bandwidth quality, SLAs etc. Then all the value-added stuff like Terraform support, logging, monitoring, IAM roles, instant scalability etc. Not to mention the benefits if you use the same cloud's managed services like databases.

If I can get a same-spec EC2 instance at AWS for just 2x the price of a Hetzner box, I would never consider Hetzner. It had to be a "10x savings".

  • indigo945  9 days ago

    Yes, but Hetzner is not "some low-end provider". They have proper, high-quality datacenters with all the redundancy you want, excellent connectivity, great service, and much better privacy controls than any American company would be legally able to provide. Hetzner also offers instant scalability and has Terraform and Ansible support for infrastructure automation.

    We have some VMs on Azure and some on Hetzner, and the latter have much better performance (especially since they give you basically infinite IOPS, which matters a lot for your database) and connectivity (especially lower latency).

    The large hyperscalers were ever only worth it if you need/want all the additional PaaS infrastructure they provide, like Lambda, SQS and so on.