Re:Show HN: We moved from AWS to Hetzner, saved 90%, kept IS...
by winrid on Saturday June 21, 2025 @01:31PM
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Don't depend on a single provider. Always do live replication across providers. OVH downtime is only an issue if your entire company is running on a single server. Split it across a couple zones if this is actually paying bills.
Re:Show HN: We moved from AWS to Hetzner, saved 90%, kept IS...
by OutOfHere on Saturday June 21, 2025 @02:10PM
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At the very least I backup data to a different provider, so I can restore the services elsewhere, although there may still exist some residual data loss since the last backup. I guess it depends on just how well it's paying the bills.
Re:Show HN: We moved from AWS to Hetzner, saved 90%, kept IS...
by sksjvsla on Sunday June 22, 2025 @12:20PM
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I have not experienced this in spite of rumours online. As I mention in these two comments, given these we decided to design our way around it by assuming that they would both go down at some point of time (but not at the same time).
As for OVH, they don't do the above, but they have week-long unplanned downtimes, so using them is okay only as an optional resource.
Even so, there are lots of providers that are cheaper than Amazon and won't screw you over.