Hetzner stopped offering ARM processors
In this technical retrospective (2026), @tosh 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.
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Although the Reddit thread is from a while ago, the situation is still current.
From https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-rx/ ↗:
"Unfortunately, we are currently unable to offer any RX servers."
NetCup still offers Arm VPSs, but similarly no managed servers.
Are the recent improvements in x86 getting us back to an architectural monoculture, at least until other Arm providers step up?
So the server backups are not backups.
Backup ? What backup ?