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Awesome! We are in a very similar transition as well. For S3, Hetzner’s object storage, while not perfect is enough for us. For CDN and WAF, we went with Bunny essentially to keep everything EU friendly.
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Yeah, as a Tech Lead I very support this. I also noticed that AWS and other clouds are too unpredictable with price, and don’t like the vendor lock. So we use bare metal, or SaaS for some tools.
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Awesome in the future will move my cloudflare worker app to vps but what makes me hesitate to migrate is i see a lot of people complain that every time when your vps is down you need to restart manually how do you solve this problem?🎉
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Nah, I don’t believe you self hosted according to your infographic. If you did, you would have put up your migration process on YouTube. Maybe I am misinformed, but it is difficult to self host all that with a skeleton crew.
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Simon Høiberg
This year, we started moving off "the cloud" - 80% of our infrastructure now runs on bare-metal servers.
AWS → Hetzner.
Instead of:
- DynamoDB
- ElastiCache
- ECS/Fargate
- SQS
- SNS
- CloudWatch
- X-Ray
We use:
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- Kubernetes
- RabbitMQ
- BullMQ
- Grafana
- Prometheus
We reduced our cloud bills from +$7,789.45 → $2,115.11 (on average).
But most importantly:
The less we depend on specific vendors, the less locked-in we become. +80% of our infrastructure can now be hosted practically anywhere.
Biggest misconceptions I see:
❌ Self-hosting is extremely complex.
Reality: It's less complex and "scary" than you think.
❌ AWS, Azure GCP make hosting easy.
Reality: They can get very complex too. And large bills can hit hard and unexpectedly.
Here's the breakdown 👇
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