Show HN: We moved from AWS to Hetzner, saved 90%, kept ISO 27001 with Ansible

Re:Show HN: We moved from AWS to Hetzner, saved 90%, kept IS... by uncircle on Saturday June 21, 2025 @02:13PM (#44339530)

I feel there is a lot of FUD spread whenever someone moves off the cloud, with the inane comparison to the annual wage of a dedicated sysadmin, trying to discourage you from doing a “reckless” migration which will bite you in the ass, your servers will catch fire every day and that it is better to stay within the golden handcuffs of AWS and GCP.

I wonder if it’s both stockholm syndrome and learned helplessness of developers that cannot imagine having to spend a little more effort and save, like OP, 90% off their monthly bill.

Yeah sure for some use cases AWS is the market leader, but let’s not kid ourselves, 9/10 companies on AWS don’t require more than a few servers and a database.

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Re:Show HN: We moved from AWS to Hetzner, saved 90%, kept IS... by sksjvsla on Saturday June 21, 2025 @03:00PM (#44339882)

Well said. It reminds me of a story I heard in a podcast once.

A database administrator for a drug cartel became an informant for the police.

His cartel boss called him in on a weekend due to a server errors. He said in the podcast "I knew I've been found out because a database running Linux never crashes"

Makes you wonder what everyone is telling themselves about the need for RDS..

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