Best price-quality ratio for cloud.
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Hetzner is powering our SAAS application and the whole business behind it. We run our HTTP servers and other infrastructure on Hetzner. Their cloud offering makes it very easy to spin up new servers while also providing access to a load balancer, private networks, firewalls, volumes, and anything else needed to run a cloud software solution.
Pros
- VPS/Cloud servers.
- Networking
- Load balancers.
- Configuration via UI.
- Volumes
Cons
- No-downtime upgrade - lately we've had 2 forced downtimes because of planned maintenance, which is not very nice, but we managed.
- Managed databases would be amazing.
- Any kind of PAAS for running containerized apps (even though I think that's past what they want to be).
Return on Investment
- Hetzner allowed us to retain great margins on our business.
- Hetzner allowed us to experiment with various self-hosted tools to safe money.
- It allows us to run the fast http servers without breaking the bank.
Usability
Alternatives Considered
AWS Lambda, AWS Service Catalog, Render, Heroku Platform and DigitalOcean
Other Software Used
New Relic, Sentry, SingleStore, Buddy
