Hetzner
Practical writing on cloud providers, infrastructure, deployment and cost, from the team behind the BuyCloudExpress catalogue.
Why Hetzner is so much cheaper, and what the trade-offs are
Hetzner's prices are not a promotion or a loss leader. They come from a different business model, and understanding it tells you exactly which workloads belong…
Hetzner Cloud or dedicated: which one fits the workload
The choice is not about size. It is about whether your workload needs to change shape quickly, and whether you can use a whole machine.
Choosing a Linux distribution for a cloud server
The distribution decides how often you are interrupted, how long the machine remains supported, and how easily you can find an answer at two in the…
Firewalls, security groups and network ACLs
Cloud platforms offer several overlapping ways to filter traffic. They behave differently in ways that matter, and using the wrong one produces rules that do not…
Private networking between cloud servers
Servers talking to each other over public addresses is slower, less safe and often billed. Private networking fixes all three, and is far easier to set…