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0 pointshardwaresofton4y ago0 comments

Well there’s a gap between the amount of convenience you get on the major clouds and one like Hetzner.

I’m a huge Hetzner fan, and their cloud offering is definitely growing but still isn’t as convenient and featureful as it could be (and they don’t share their roadmap currently so hard to tell what they’re working on next).

I’m trying to do something about it though, working on Nimbus Web Services[0]. In my mind all we need is something to bridge the managed services gap and make it very easy to set up the basic 3 tier app with some amount of scale/performance elasticity!

[0]: https://nimbusws.com

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dx0344y ago

But he could've put static files on a Hetzner server and still have his backend in Azure. That would've solved these issues and probably saved even more money.

hardwaresoftonOP4y ago

Being able to run a relatively simple global cache with a cheap provider like Hetzner has the origin is also harder than it should have to be.

dx0344y ago

How's that? Setting up a revers nginx proxy with cache takes probably less than an hour even if you've never done it (speaking from experience). And otherwise, if the files don't change that much just ssh in, copy them on the server and serve them via nginx and cloudflare tunnel?

I'm in no way a sysadmin and have set up these configurations manually in less than an hour for side projects. Cloudflare tunnel also allows you to lock down the server for everything but ssh with pubkey auth so the attack surface is really small.

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hrrsn4y ago

  apt install nginx

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0 pointshardwaresofton4y ago0 comments

Well there’s a gap between the amount of convenience you get on the major clouds and one like Hetzner.

[0]: https://nimbusws.com

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dx0344y ago

But he could've put static files on a Hetzner server and still have his backend in Azure. That would've solved these issues and probably saved even more money.

hardwaresoftonOP4y ago

Being able to run a relatively simple global cache with a cheap provider like Hetzner has the origin is also harder than it should have to be.

dx0344y ago

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hrrsn4y ago

  apt install nginx

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