I always look for excuses to get more servers, so if you ask me, I'd say yes, get that new server. There's no such thing as having too much servers since there are so many things I want to self-host.
I also regularly tear down my servers and see how fast I can set it up again. Keep my deployment scripts up to date.
I also regularly tear down my servers and see how fast I can set it up again. Keep my deployment scripts up to date.
That's what I should do to and I keep telling myself that I'll do it next month 🙈
Yes, that's true. But if I start having many servers I will also start feeling the urge to cluster them, and that will be an absolute black hole of my time 😅
I'm unsure how Hetzner does it, but confirm that you factor the cost of backups in. VPS providers might have you pay a flat rate for backups on an instance ignorant of size, but you'll have to pay for backups of each instance
That's interesting. Although I usually handle backups myself (to backblaze) and I never tested provider backup mechanism
One additional consideration that's specific to Hetzner (which you may already be aware of): You can only scale down a server after scaling it up if you elected not to increase the (local) disk size. In other words, if you scale up a server with 40 GB storage to one that comes with 80, you can't actually resize your storage from 40 to 80 if you ever want to scale the server back down later. Kind of obnoxious.
Sounds like esxi storage provisioning. You can grow, but shrinking is a whole different story
Tbf, while it's possible to shrink disks, it's always a hassle and much more complex than growing one.
Yeah, exactly.
Yes. In any case I will attach an external volume,which is easier to manage and relatively cheap. Thanks for pointing it out
That sounds like a good work-around!
It feels like you answered your own question—a second server comes with advantages and sounds like it isn’t a significant increase in price.
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