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Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner: From $1,432 to $233/month With Zero Downtime (isayeter.com)
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[–] 23 points 6 months ago (1 child)

Seems like it would have been a good moment to split the database from the many web servers and reduce the single point of failure.

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  • [–] 14 points 6 months ago

    And get some replication in there. Even if there's not a single point of failure, if a DB instance ever goes tits-up, you'd better have a standby.

    Source: I've cleaned up others' messes where they didn't.

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