Hetzner S3 Storage coming next Thursday
In this technical retrospective (2024), @vermaat 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.
Still wish for managed databases.
Any experience running in the Hetzner Cloud but using e.g. DO managed databases? How is performance? (currently running my DB in Hetzner Cloud)
CATEGORY Frugal Engineering →
HISTORICAL ERA Post-ZIRP & AI (2023–2026)
COMMUNITY SCORE 12 points
TOTAL DISCUSSIONS 2 comments
Hetzner S3 Coming soon.
"We charge a base price of €0.0096/hour for every hour of Object Storage runtime, up to a maximum of €5.95/month. You receive 1 TB of storage and 1.5 GB of traffic included per hour of Object Storage runtime. If the included quotas are exceeded, additional storage is charged at €0.0096 per TB hour and additional traffic at €1.19 per TB."
This includes 19% VAT.
Cloudflare R2 is priced differently. It will be hard to beat R2, but at least the Hetzner option is nice for users who want to storage everything within the EU / close to their Hetzner servers.