Hetzner

  • Writing this up because I just tripped over it and spent an hour debugging what ended up being an obvious problem. So here’s the situation: You’re running Rails 8 with SQLite as its main database, and you want to replicate / backup that database to Hetzner S3. Bonus points if you’re running Rails on your…

  • If you’re using dokku for your deployments (it’s awesome) and were wondering how to set up automatic backups of your dokku postgres instances to Hetzner S3, here’s how you do it. TLDR Example In this example, we’re assuming that we’ve created out Hetzner S3 bucket for dokku backups in the Falkenstein region, fsn-1. Test the…

  • Hetzner recently launched their S3-compatible object storage. Like many other Hetzner services, their object storage offering looks really interesting because it’s significantly less expensive than the competition, especially AWS – the initial pricing suggests it’s ~4x cheaper for storage, and ~50x (!) cheaper for traffic. Let’s look how you can use it in Ruby on…