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by dexterbt1 2588 days ago
I just migrated 2 weeks ago a fairly sized DB (300GB) from Digitalocean to Hetzner cloud.

The previous DO plan was an old one not offered anymore, 2vcpu dedicated, 6GB ram, costs 80usd + 2 storage volumes (~500GB) with cost totalling around 150usd. This instance has been in DO for more than 2 years.

I have been testing Hetzner cloud for almost a year without hiccups. plus late last year, they added block storage, which is what ive been waiting. When an opportunity to migrate opened in our schedule, we decided to jump.

The HC instance has 4vcpu dedicated, 16GB ram, instance cost 40usd + block storage cost totalling around 80usd.

We got 2-3x cpu and ram, while performance of the HC setup is slightly better, if not on par, than the older DO setup; at half the cost!

The downsides so far with HC are slightly worse support (less helpful, language barrier), and currently no way to snapshot block storage volumes. And less goodies (like monitoring, networking, etc of DO)