Hetzner.com is down (502 error)
Looks like hetzner.com is down, throwing 502 gateway error and some timeouts. Not a good look when I was just looking to become a customer. Their status page reports nothing.
In this technical retrospective (2022), @xeornet shares practical architectural lessons learned from running, scaling, or migrating production software under lean constraints.
Core Principles for Independent Builders:
Defaulting to simpler architectures (such as monolithic frameworks, SQLite, or managed VPS) prevents early engineering bankruptcy.
Evaluating true compute and egress costs reveals that high cloud bills can often be slashed by 80%+ through judicious re-platforming.
Code you write at 2 AM as a solo engineer must be easy to debug six months later without complex microservice dependencies.
Community Debate Themes:
HN engineers debated the tradeoffs between cloud convenience and raw server economics, database indexing strategies, and resisting premature architectural complexity.
Its all good for me in the UK. Also recommend Hetzner been great to me in the last 8 years. Not Affiliated.
CATEGORY Frugal Engineering →
HISTORICAL ERA Pandemic Bubble (2020–2022)
COMMUNITY SCORE 5 points
TOTAL DISCUSSIONS 2 comments
Looks like it was down for about an hour or so, central EU. I've herd good things though, so I think I'll give them a try.