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1 +++ 2 title = "Moving To Hetzner Cloud from DigitalOcean" 3 date = 2020-11-01 4 [extra] 5 type = "post" 6 +++ 7 8 Since I began working on self-hosting, I've been using a 9 [DigitalOcean][do] (affiliate link) VPS running [Debian 10][debian]. 10 However, after investigating the alternatives in the space, 11 I'll be moving to [Hetzner Cloud][hetzner] when my DigitalOcean 12 credits run out in six months. Here's why. 13 <!-- more --> 14 15 I went with DigitalOcean as my hosting platform primarily because 16 of the USD$50 credit included with [Github Student][gh-student]. 17 I've used USD$20 of that credit as of today, and the remaining money 18 should run out around April 2020, giving me almost a year of VPS 19 for free. Not a bad deal. 20 21 With that said, as my credits hit the half-way point, I've begun 22 to think about what's to come. Namely, the fact that my current 23 server is running at a constant 80% memory usage – severely 24 limiting what I can self-host. 25 26 ## Money talks... 27 28 I currently use the cheapest DigitalOcean VPS available. I have 29 1 vCPU, 1GB of RAM, 25GB of SSD, and 1TB of data transfer. All that 30 power is packed in a clean USD$5 per month. This is, as far as cloud 31 hosts go, pretty good bang for your buck. Hetzner **blows that out of 32 the water**. Take a look at this table: 33 34 | **USD/Month** | **vCPU** | **Memory** | **Storage** | **Traffic** | **Provider** | 35 |:--------------|:---------|:-----------|:------------|:------------|:-------------| 36 | $3.41 | 1 | 2GB | 20GB | 20TB | Hetzner | 37 | $4.77 | 2 | 2GB | 40GB | 20TB | Hetzner | 38 | $5.00 | 1 | 1GB | 25GB | 1TB | DigitalOcean | 39 | $6.70 | 2 | 4GB | 40GB | 20TB | Hetzner | 40 | $10.00 | 1 | 2GB | 25GB | 2TB | DigitalOcean | 41 42 Check out the math on that, seriously. Hetzner's base tier offers 43 1 vCPU, 2GB of ram, 20GB of SSD, and 20TB of data transfer for 44 USD$3.41 per month. That's double the ram and 20 times the transfer 45 for almost **half the price** of my current DigitalOcean droplet. 46 The fourth down in the table above, the one I plan on purchasing, costs 47 USD$1.70 more than DigitalOcean and has **quadruple the performace** 48 of my current VPS. That's more than even *Docker* could need. Ok that 49 might be a slight exaggeration, but it's still a lot. 50 51 ## ...and it speaks for the trees. 52 53 Hetzner is a [green hosting provider][green-web-directory], as 54 certified by the [Green Web Foundation][gwf]. DigitalOcean is not. 55 Obviously, climate change is important. If we look at it objectively, 56 it's one of the only extinction-level threats to human existence at 57 the moment. All that is to say that switching to a green hosting provider 58 is the only thing [I need to do][my-carbon] according to [this online 59 website carbon calculator][carbon-calc], and you know I can't resist 60 online website metrics. 61 62 ## So that's nice. 63 64 Anyways, that's a pretty good summary of my thoughts on the move. I'm 65 probably going to use the move to make a few other changes to my hosting 66 setup (i.e. `docker-compose` to [`k3s`][k3s], [`umami`][umami] to 67 [`plausible`][plausible]). I'll keep you all abreast of the latest updates 68 to my hosting in future posts. 69 70 Until then, this is FIGBERT signing off. I should make a more consistent outro. 71 72 [do]: https://m.do.co/c/1f23d011ae24 73 [debian]: https://www.debian.org/ 74 [hetzner]: https://www.hetzner.com/ 75 [gh-student]: https://education.github.com/pack 76 [green-web-directory]: https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/directory/ 77 [gwf]: https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/ 78 [my-carbon]: https://www.websitecarbon.com/website/figbert-com/ 79 [carbon-calc]: https://www.websitecarbon.com/ 80 [k3s]: https://k3s.io/ 81 [umami]: https://umami.is/ 82 [plausible]: https://plausible.io/