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New comment by derfabianpeter in "Migrating from AWS to Hetzner"

derfabianpeter — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 16:23:58 +0000

We at ayedo[0] are specialized for this kind of migration away from inflated hyperscalers onto European cloud providers like Hetzner, IONOS, Plusserver etc. we provide the missing cloud-native services like databases, storage, loadbalancing, etc so teams don’t need to adjust that much.

[0] https://ayedo.de

New comment by derfabianpeter in "Greatest irony of the AI age: Humans hired to clean AI slop"

derfabianpeter — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 18:08:22 +0000

Greatest irony of the industrial age: humans hired to operate machines.

New comment by derfabianpeter in "Show HN: Edka – Kubernetes clusters on your own Hetzner account"

derfabianpeter — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 18:52:38 +0000

You might also want to review https://loopback.cloud for that purpose

New comment by derfabianpeter in "Show HN: Edka – Kubernetes clusters on your own Hetzner account"

derfabianpeter — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 18:50:50 +0000

You might want to check https://loopback.cloud if you’re interested in managed k8s with customized infra on Hetzner. They‘re a German company specialized in that.

New comment by derfabianpeter in "Ask HN: Small teams and solopreneurs, how are you hosting your apps?"

derfabianpeter — Sun, 02 Jun 2024 21:12:53 +0000

Spoiler: Shameless plug, but might be helpful for people

I understand most of the commentators, as well as OP, are probably looking to not spend too much time and money on their hosting infra. While that makes sense in the beginning, there might be a point in your successful journey where you want to hand over your operation duties to someone skilled and focus on building software because your business starts depending on safe and well-maintained infrastructure.

If you're looking for something between Heroku and AWS (both in terms of pricing and scalability) but based on K8s, with direct access to skilled platform engineers and personal support, you might want to check out https://www.ayedo.de/cloud/

New comment by derfabianpeter in "Ask HN: EU/GDPR Compliant Postgres Hosting"

derfabianpeter — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 21:11:03 +0000

Hey, you should check out https://www.ayedo.de - german company, own datacenters, but also able to provide managed services on top of HETZNER.

New comment by derfabianpeter in "Ask HN: Are there any PaaS that would offer pricing comparable to bare metal?"

derfabianpeter — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 19:43:16 +0000

At https://www.ayedo.de we provide managed containers on top of Hetzner for a flat fee per node and it's managed by actual people, not just click-ops you need to take care for yourself eventually.

New comment by derfabianpeter in "Hetzner Introduces ARM64 Cloud Servers"

derfabianpeter — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 22:15:20 +0000

If that’s the only reason, we offer managed databases of many flavors on hetzner. https://www.ayedo.de

New comment by derfabianpeter in "Hetzner launches three new dedicated servers"

derfabianpeter — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 00:34:35 +0000

I happen to run a company that specializes in this: https://www.ayedo.de

New comment by derfabianpeter in "Ask HN: What’s your startup’s analytics setup? (2023)"

derfabianpeter — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 19:14:44 +0000

Glad I found this, thanks for posting it. Looks great.

New comment by derfabianpeter in "Ask HN: A Better Docker Compose?"

derfabianpeter — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 19:06:09 +0000

I use Polycrate [1] in conjunction with Ansible to create complex / monolithic systems with Docker / Swarm and to create a simpler interface for the end user than docker compose provides.

[1] https://docs.polycrate.io

Ask HN: Do you know any managed Docker providers?

derfabianpeter — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 19:03:41 +0000

Hi HN,

I’m looking for providers that offer managed docker hosts (not single container solutions like the ones you get from the hyperscalers - full docker standalone nodes).

Would also be interested in docker swarm.

Happy for all tips, thank you in advance!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34249875

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by derfabianpeter in "Hetzner continues its growth in the US with a new location"

derfabianpeter — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 17:23:19 +0000

My company [1] offers this as a managed services and we’re very happy with hetzners offerings for the K8s ecosystem. Fairly easy to use a variety of tools to get K8s up and running reliably (we roll our own solution though)

[1] https://www.ayedo.de

New comment by derfabianpeter in "Hetzner continues its growth in the US with a new location"

derfabianpeter — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 16:42:18 +0000

If you need managed K8s and Kafka (and pretty much anything else you can self host), my company [1] provides just that with 5x16 real human support.

[1] https://www.ayedo.de

New comment by derfabianpeter in "Good CI/CD and SRE Blogs"

derfabianpeter — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 19:56:32 +0000

https://microplatforms.de is a growing collection of DevOps/Platform Engineering/SRE content.

New comment by derfabianpeter in "Build your career on dirty work"

derfabianpeter — Sun, 11 Sep 2022 19:20:02 +0000

Interesting perspective that I’d like to challenge. Many European companies now face a future in which they’re banned from using US cloud services due to GDPR. Fixing that problem seems like having high impact.

New comment by derfabianpeter in "Porsche boss faces software woes keeping VW a step behind Tesla"

derfabianpeter — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 08:50:59 +0000

I've been working in the field - and for VW specifically - for the past couple of years and am constantly amazed by how far they are actually behind in terms of software and overall technical infrastructure.

Especially germans are too stuck in their industrial past - we don't really understand the value and leverage of software for business cases.

The car industry is built upon great designers and engineers, outsourcing the actual production of parts to other entities - they're not really used to building anything on their own, they just assemble things. I've written about this here [1].

While this way of thinking isn't limited to automakers, they're the ones that will suffer the most from it in the future. True innovation has been lost to the industry decades ago and is additionally blocked by holding on to the status quo instead of experimenting with and developing new things.

I believe this stems from the fact that most of our big businesses are run by MBAs with no real understanding for trends and even less for the speed at which the world moves forward in terms of technology.

Diess himself at least tried to push something forward others have neglected since the 90s. Not sure how Blume will approach this, but since he's grown inside the VW bubble for almost 30 years I would not assume that he can drive any kind of real innovation forward.

[1] https://derfabianpeter.substack.com/p/europe-and-the-cloud

Europe and the Cloud

derfabianpeter — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 06:02:48 +0000

Article URL: https://derfabianpeter.substack.com/p/europe-and-the-cloud

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32647105

Points: 2

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New comment by derfabianpeter in "Talos Linux"

derfabianpeter — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 15:52:43 +0000

They didn’t call it secure as per your initial quote. They say it is designed to have a small attack surface. You missed to acknowledge that security means different things for different contexts. Besides, it’s a free offering, clearing issues with insecurities other offerings have. If you want something to be more secure, you can point out flaws you find in the intended way (filing issues) which might help improve the situation. Calling it out the way you did (probably without trying the tool and even more likely without having substantial knowledge of better approachable alternatives in the space) doesn’t help at all.

New comment by derfabianpeter in "Don't use Kubernetes yet"

derfabianpeter — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 08:14:52 +0000

Funny part is that „competent generalists“ (those Brent-style types) are very rare and most technology needs to be designed for incompetent specialists. Also funny is that these generalists typically build as if everyone has their own skillset which renders many systems unusable once Brent has left the building.