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by largbae12 hours ago |
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upvoteby dividuum12 hours ago|
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Not sure if I understand what you’re trying to say, but Hetzner's Console works just like that too.
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upvoteby nine_k11 hours ago|
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There are two interesting parts in the post.

One is about all the steps of zero downtime migration. It's widely applicable.

The other is the decision to replace a cloud instance with bare metal. It saves a lot in costs, but also the loss of fast failover and data backups is priced in.

If I were doing this, I would run a hot spare for an extra $200, and switched the primary every few days, to guarantee that both copies work well, and the switchover is easy. It would be a relatively low price for a massive reduction of the risk of a catastrophic failure.

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upvoteby dangero10 hours ago|
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The hot spare switchover idea is good. Another related idea: restore each from backup regularly.
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upvoteby locknitpicker11 hours ago|
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> Sometimes you just want to click a button and the server or bucket or whatever is ready and here's the access info and it has sane defaults and if I need backups or whatnot it's just a checkbox. Your time is worth money too.

You're describing Hetzner Cloud, which has been like this for many years. At least 6.

Hetzner also offers Hetzner Cloud API, which allows us to not have to click any button and just have everything in IaC.

https://docs.hetzner.cloud/

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upvoteby petesergeant10 hours ago|
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Coolify on a Hetzner server is giving me the one click service experience
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upvoteby andai11 hours ago|
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https://xkcd.com/2948/
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upvoteby rmunn10 hours ago|
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Cute; I'd somehow missed ever seeing that one. The omitted con of electric engines (costs way more to build batteries than a gas tank so you're likely to have more expensive storage AND less of it) makes the XKCD joke miss. BUT... since there's probably something that Digital Ocean offers that Hetzner doesn't, that might actually be a very appropriate XKCD for the situation, precisely because there's a tradeoff the XKCD didn't mention. (I haven't used Hetzner so I don't know firsthand what the tradeoff is, but a quick search suggests Hetzner doesn't do Kubernetes so that might be the tradeoff for some people. Or it might be something else, everybody has their own situation).
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upvoteby faangguyindia11 hours ago|
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i've my own flyio style deploy built, where i just use API of digital ocean to roll out my service

i hardly ever visit their website, everything from terminal.

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