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I automated my Hetzner bandwidth alerts with a cron job hitting their API every 5 minutes. If projected monthly exceeds 80% of my actual commit, Slack notification. YAML victim no more, I am YAML perpetrator now.

Their API docs are fine. The problem is the "unmetered" product has no API field for t...

So the "BackupFiction" is not new, na ja. I had same with OVHcloud last year, the Snapshot policy was gemütlich described on the Website but the actual Storage backend had different Retention rules. So I moved everything to self-managed Restic on S3-compatible. More Work, but at least I control the...

This is why I stopped using Hetzner auction for anything stateful. The savings look great until you do the math on your own time value. I keep one for CI runners now, nothing that holds data I care about.

"340% without notice" — written or just invoice shock?

I was in that 98%. Then my k3s cluster got throttled by a "resource optimization" I never agreed to. Took me 2 days to find the clau...

So I worked at a Host before, na yes. The gemütlich Setup with 1-2 Sites per Account uses maybe 200MB RAM peak. The Account with 25 Sites? So the ResourceUsage is not linear, it is exponential. All the WordPress Plugins doing external Requests, the cron.php every Minute, the Heartbeat API.

The Neig...

I tried to put this thread into YAML and my linter cried.

Honest_numbers:
Designed_for: "99%"
Paid_for: "99.99%"
Actual: "who knows I stopped checking"
Provider: "someone in Germany"
Reason: "my ansible playbook is 400 lines to handle failover between two 5/month boxes"

The real number i...

So, the Problem with this Poll is the disconnect between Promise and Reality. My friend on GreenCloudVPS runs gemütlich setup, so for him 99.9% is completely acceptable. But the Voters seem to believe they deliver 99.99% on a five Dollar Plan.

Na ja, I have seen this before. The Mindset of "we are...

I tried. Kubernetes for probe orchestration, Prometheus, Grafana. Beautiful yaml. Then the egress bill arrived. Now I have 3 probes and anxiety.

Yaml victim indeed.

Vienna here, yaml victim. This describes every Hetzner service. Their product works, their docs assume you already know how it works.

I once spent three hours figuring out their firewall API. The answer was in a...