Time to test a new hosting company :slight_smile: .This time I opted for German Hetzner, and their 4.80€ VPS CX1. Note that this price is VAT inclusive, so it is one of the very cheapest on the market (many providers present VAT 0% prices) for a consumer. It’s a solid package : 1GB RAM 1 Core CPU 2…

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Ah sorry, that’s what I was trying to point out.

Recently I discussed here an issue that my site is not reachable via http. After some investigation, this was not a Hetzner issue. Domain auto-renewal had failed and it was suspended. I deleted those posts as they had disinformation regarding the root cause. Still a valuable experiment to see if He…

Hetzner’s CX servers include at least one Snapshopt for free, which is great, and it just takes a few seconds to create one. But they issue this warning: Power off your vServer before taking a snapshot to ensure data consistency. If you take a snapshot of a running vServer, data in the memory cann…

[изображение] tophee: Can someone translate what this means for discourse (and, Wordpress, for that matter)? You’re probably right about not needing the RAM/swap data. All the data you need for a restore should be on the filesystem, with the exception of any caching going on with the database…

[изображение] david: The way Discourse deals with this problem for its own backups is to put the database in read-only mode, and then use the databases built-in backup methods. Okay, so if I take backup in discourse and then a snapshot, I should be fine? By “fine” I mean, I if I then fiddle …

[изображение] tophee: Okay, so if I take backup in discourse and then a snapshot, I should be fine? I’m gonna go with “probably”, but possibly not :wink: The safest thing would be to have a completely external system storing your backups as well - like S3/Dropbox/Google-Drive etc. - that way…

[изображение] david: The safest thing would be to have a completely external system storing your backups as well - like S3/Dropbox/Google-Drive Yes, I have my backups on dropbox. Sorry, should have mentioned.

Then I’d say you’re pretty safe - in a worst case scenario where the hosting provider loses your server and its snapshot, you’ve still got your data safe :slight_smile:

does hetzner ask for ID (like ovh and other sites)?

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tonninseteli (se oli tonnin seteli) 05.Январь.2022 17:56:27 25

Кто-нибудь пробовал использовать хранилище Hetzner вместо S3 для загрузки файлов? Бэкапы, конечно, можно делать через cron, но вы понимаете.

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