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We cut costs by 70% by moving from GCP and CockroachDB to Hetzner and PostgreSQL
How we cut costs by 70% by moving from GCP and CockroachDB into Hetzner and PostgreSQL
Using a software-based load balancer means that you do not need to pay for fees incurred by additional LoadBalancers (something that most cloud seem to create per Ingress!). From our move from GCP to Hetzner, we've saved cut our costs by over 2/3 and doubled our capacity, while keeping all the benefits of running your services on a cloud. However, modern computers are stupidly powerful, and you can get decently far with just optimizing your code - our current infrastructure is expected to support at least a few hundred thousand concurrent users!
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