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  • Migrating to Hetzner

    The Digital Society co-op migrated their (relatively small) infrastructure from AWS to Hetzner, mainly using k8s.

    One interesting detail is that Hetzner don't have the concept of an AZ, which is not a great sign in resiliency terms; if you need a high uptime, it is important to be able to run a multi-AZ service which operates with several replicas spread across independent datacenters which are more-or-less colocated, within a few milliseconds of each other. Azure, AWS, and GCP all offer this concept, but not Hetzner. hmm

    Tags: hetzner uptime k8s aws migration cloud infrastructure ops