Hacker News: fduran

New comment by fduran in "Have you restarted your computer this week?"

fduran — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 15:59:16 +0000

With servers, if they have a huge uptime and sysadmins etc are afraid to restart them, then they have "pets" with high liability, requiring Infra as Code https://docs.sadservers.com/blog/destroy-and-deploy-the-joys...

New comment by fduran in "Fedora is now the default Linux recommendation, and Ubuntu did this to itself"

fduran — Wed, 06 May 2026 10:12:51 +0000

Fedora may be becoming the default for desktops, not for servers (Debian possibly the default for servers).

New comment by fduran in "Your Website Is Not for You"

fduran — Fri, 01 May 2026 13:23:03 +0000

Yes, the website is for prospective (and current) clients.

A small annoyance in startup circles is getting feedback about my website front page along the lines of "I didn't understand your hero, everybody should understand in one sentence what you do". Well, no, my clients will self-select as in not everybody needs to understand what "troubleshooting servers" or "devops" is :-)

New comment by fduran in "Ask HN: Building a solo business is impossible?"

fduran — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:04:21 +0000

There is def some luck involved, as in you don't know beforehand what's going to be successful.

"You find a problem in a niche, say accounting for plumbers, and build for that, then you just go and market to these people". It's way better to work on something you are familiar with and you like.

New comment by fduran in "The economics of software teams: Why most engineering orgs are flying blind"

fduran — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:15:17 +0000

They have saved _more_ than two hours per dev and week. There's a compound factor and now code can be more reliable (less outages or emergencies fixing bugs) etc. Also having a sane working environment helps engineers not quitting, which is very expensive if they are replaced.

New comment by fduran in "Show HN: A playable version of the Claude Code Terraform destroy incident"

fduran — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:26:44 +0000

Nice, this is like SadServers with a twist, excellent :-)

New comment by fduran in "Launch HN: Didit (YC W26) – Stripe for Identity Verification"

fduran — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:08:15 +0000

Suerte! Unrelated, growing up in Spain it always baffled me that identification was based on a photo on your DNI. Stories of siblings or even friends that had a passing resemblance to each other sharing DNIs was a common story.

New comment by fduran in "Company as Code"

fduran — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 02:58:35 +0000

> This is not a new or novel idea

Yep https://x.com/fduran/status/1134283398594387969

New comment by fduran in "Advent of Sysadmin 2025"

fduran — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 17:40:58 +0000

hello, thanks for the feedback. Just deployed a new image that only checks for the objective, not at what docker network somebody uses.

It is hard to have a checker that eliminates both false positives and false negatives in general, but we always try to minimize false negatives and we failed initially here.

New comment by fduran in "Advent of Sysadmin 2025"

fduran — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 17:35:39 +0000

Hello, SadServers guy here.

We have scenarios running on k8s, both on single VMs (the ones you can see in the scenario list) and we also have a beta/PoC k8s cluster where we currently run a couple of scenarios as single pod (a docker container) or as a full system (the "kubernetes playgrounds", which is kind of hidden while we test it).

Is this what you were wondering? we do have pending to introduce podman scenarios as well

New comment by fduran in "Advent of Sysadmin 2025"

fduran — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 17:18:25 +0000

Hello, creator here. Have you checked your dashboard? otherwise please contact us (email or form in the website) and we'll be happy to help

New comment by fduran in "Advent of Sysadmin 2025"

fduran — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 17:17:14 +0000

(Creator here) thanks! and we may at some point get into Windows :-)

New comment by fduran in "Advent of Sysadmin 2025"

fduran — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 17:16:23 +0000

Hello, SadServers guy here. Free VMs are sandboxed (no way in or out other than coming in through the proxy) for security reasons. Paid accounts have VMs with internet access and SSH access (and your pub key is added to all VMs for convenience)

New comment by fduran in "Advent of Sysadmin 2025"

fduran — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 04:36:17 +0000

Checking out how the platform works was two clicks away: home -> give me a server.

I don't know of any other SaaS which gives you a VM with one click without any registration but we do it.

In any case thanks for the feedback, I've put a button on this /advent page for clarity, cheers

New comment by fduran in "Advent of Sysadmin 2025"

fduran — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 04:32:47 +0000

hello, creator here, sorry about that. In this case you can click again on the "Open the Server Terminal in a New Window" button

New comment by fduran in "Advent of Code 2025"

fduran — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 02:01:04 +0000

https://sadservers.com/advent

New comment by fduran in "Advent of Code 2025"

fduran — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 23:58:19 +0000

I haven't set up an advent event (maybe I should) but you can do yourself a challenge a day from SadServers.com

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

fduran — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 17:23:17 +0000

This is similar to our experience migrating a SadServers k8s service; basically Hetzner is way cheaper and more performant than the big cloud providers BUT you have to take into account man-hours for the migration and be careful with missing services or ancillary tooling: https://docs.sadservers.com/blog/migrating-k8s-out-of-cloud-...

New comment by fduran in "Beginner Guide to VPS Hetzner and Coolify"

fduran — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 14:15:06 +0000

Big cloud provider (AWS, Azure, GP) is great for all the managed ecosystem; if you mostly only need raw computing (CPU, memory, bandwidth), then a provider like Hertzner makes a lot of sense (plus they have API and basic services like LB/firewall and object storage).

We at SadServers moved from big cloud managed K8s to Hetzner + Edka and it's an order of magnitude cheaper (obv some perks are missing).

New comment by fduran in "Asciinema CLI 3.0 rewritten in Rust, adds live streaming, upgrades file format"

fduran — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 21:32:54 +0000

I love Asciinema and have made a small contribution, support the project with a donation: https://docs.asciinema.org/donations/#individuals

If you want to see how Asciinema looks when people are troubleshooting Linux systems: https://replay.sadservers.com/