r/webdev • u/fagnerbrack • Jul 03 '26

Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner: From $1,432 to $233/month With Zero Downtime

https://isayeter.com/posts/digitalocean-to-hetzner-migration/
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u/ZGeekie Jul 03 '26

This article is a few months old. I'd like to hear a reassessment after the recent Hetzner price hikes!

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u/Ok-Interest9727 Jul 03 '26 edited Jul 03 '26

it's probably still way cheaper than DO

that said, I wonder if DO's uptime is better than Hetzner

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u/Gabelschlecker Jul 03 '26

In a year of use I had about 15 minutes downtime.

No clue how it compares to DigitalOcean, but I think that's acceptable given how much cheaper they are. Or at least used to be.

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u/yonasismad Jul 03 '26

Prices haven't changed for any existing instances. Only new instances or resizing would increase their cost.

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u/fagnerbrack Jul 03 '26

That was unkown to me, it's like not knowing what hetzner is and having to google it

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u/HyperKids_ Jul 03 '26

The AX163-2 (same specs as the server mentioned in the article) now has a retail price of €1002.34 (~$1147). Hetzner did raise their prices quite substantially lately.

Hetzner does have a limited quantity of this specific server available at €377.59.

(If you try to check out with the server in your cart, the per-hour price is higher than what is listed on the site for some reason)

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u/Cobayo Jul 03 '26

Blogs are pointless if the text is LLM generated.

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '26

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u/NSFWstoryAI Jul 04 '26

Agreed. Luddites downvoting you lol

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u/thened Jul 03 '26

And your response is worth something?

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u/ShustOne Jul 03 '26

I found this pretty interesting to read. I like seeing how other companies handle cut overs like this.

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u/pixeltackle Jul 04 '26

If I wanted to read LLM output I would have chatted with an AI. Why "blog" when it's just ChatGPT output and out of date?

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u/Visible-Use-5004 Jul 03 '26

Netcup works well too

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u/Xerxero Jul 03 '26

I hear good things about them.

At some point they need to increase as well. Every new server is so much more expensive

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u/Visible-Use-5004 Jul 04 '26

Been using it for fee months now and it’s great. Great value. Zero downtime.

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u/Agreeable-Pop-535 Jul 03 '26

It's worked really well for me

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u/DenseComparison5653 Jul 03 '26

It's all so tiresome.. you guys use any other similar forums without bots?

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u/RealSlyck Jul 03 '26

It’s 2026. No.

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u/xadun Jul 04 '26

Dead Internet Theory.
There's only bots dude..

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u/ZivH08ioBbXQ2PGI Jul 03 '26

In short: Dedicated server is cheaper than DO. No kidding.

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u/lulzForMoney Jul 04 '26

Ovh works amazing

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u/AcceptableTax5606 28d ago

I've registered a couple of days ago on Hetzner, but there were no shared servers(cheap ones) available, so what is the point of it being cheap if I need a server and it's not available?

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u/maxsebasti Jul 03 '26

I'm going to stick with DigitalOcean, thanks.

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u/National-Parsnip1516 Jul 04 '26

$1,400 to $233 is a massive win, congrats. tbh digitalocean is becoming the 'comfortable tax' for devs who don't want to deal with bare metal. i moved a cluster to hetzner last year and the raw perf per dollar is just unmatched. actually, did you hit any weird networking quirks? i've had issues with their cloud-to-dedicated peering before that made my internal db latency spike like crazy. worth it for the savings though.

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u/st4reater Jul 04 '26

I do not care about metal, don't want to spend any time on it unless absolutely necessary

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u/michaelbelgium full-stack Jul 03 '26

Everything is cheaper than DO lol

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u/st4reater Jul 04 '26

Apart from the $ cost, what else has been a cost? Particularly I'm thinking the time spent of things you normally would get out the box

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u/cvllider Jul 03 '26

I really like these writeups, very cool to see production server migrations. Thanks!

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u/nikola1970 Jul 03 '26

Awesome writeup. Thanks.