Rails

  • 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…

  • 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…