▲ 497 ▼ Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner: From $1,432 to $233/month With Zero Downtime (isayeter.com) submitted 6 months ago by lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com to c/technology@lemmy.world 85 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] wltr@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 6 months ago (1 child) More likely your system is more sophisticated, I have just joined the hobby, so to say. But I am sure you can go much cheaper than that with bare metal. If I’d really need to host something, I’d rather buy a real server, and invest in solar power instead of paying some rent. Was a happy Digital Ocean customer, before I realised I can do the same with a Raspberry Pi. I was buying a couple of Pis a year for them. Right now, de-facto one Pi can host everything I really need. I regret I wasted about half a thousand on nothing. Could have bought a great NUC instead of wasting money on the cheapest VM for years. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago Yeah solar power is much more affordable these days. I live in a vehicle so I have a 500w panel on the roof charging a 200ah lithium battery. I only use a laptop and steam deck, but could easily upscale. The whole system, including the victron controllers & shunt and the 2k inverter came out around £700, but I'm pretty sure stuff has only got cheaper since I bought it. I have way more power than I need in summer, though there are maybe two months in winter when I have to charge everything in daylight. I could always add a small wind generator if I needed. Renewables are totally feasible these days permalink fedilink source parent
[–] wltr@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 6 months ago (1 child) More likely your system is more sophisticated, I have just joined the hobby, so to say. But I am sure you can go much cheaper than that with bare metal. If I’d really need to host something, I’d rather buy a real server, and invest in solar power instead of paying some rent. Was a happy Digital Ocean customer, before I realised I can do the same with a Raspberry Pi. I was buying a couple of Pis a year for them. Right now, de-facto one Pi can host everything I really need. I regret I wasted about half a thousand on nothing. Could have bought a great NUC instead of wasting money on the cheapest VM for years. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago Yeah solar power is much more affordable these days. I live in a vehicle so I have a 500w panel on the roof charging a 200ah lithium battery. I only use a laptop and steam deck, but could easily upscale. The whole system, including the victron controllers & shunt and the 2k inverter came out around £700, but I'm pretty sure stuff has only got cheaper since I bought it. I have way more power than I need in summer, though there are maybe two months in winter when I have to charge everything in daylight. I could always add a small wind generator if I needed. Renewables are totally feasible these days permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago Yeah solar power is much more affordable these days. I live in a vehicle so I have a 500w panel on the roof charging a 200ah lithium battery. I only use a laptop and steam deck, but could easily upscale. The whole system, including the victron controllers & shunt and the 2k inverter came out around £700, but I'm pretty sure stuff has only got cheaper since I bought it. I have way more power than I need in summer, though there are maybe two months in winter when I have to charge everything in daylight. I could always add a small wind generator if I needed. Renewables are totally feasible these days permalink fedilink source parent