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I Moved Everything to a $4.50 Hetzner Box. Here's What Broke and What Didn't.
Last year my side project was running on AWS. A t3.small EC2 instance, an RDS PostgreSQL db.t3.micro, an S3 bucket, and a CloudFront distribution. Total bill: $47/month for an app with 200 daily users.
Then someone on Reddit told me to look at Hetzner. I now run the same stack on a single CAX21 (4 vCPU ARM, 8GB RAM, 80GB SSD) for €5.49/month.
Here's exactly what happened.
The Migration
What I was running on AWS:
Node.js API (Express)
PostgreSQL database
Redis for sessions
Nginx reverse...
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