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+ +![hetzner-logo-banner](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5b3b5a63-33ae-41d6-bcff-6a25744db465 "Hetzner Logo") + +We've made the switch to `Hetzner`, +we think you should too. + +
+ +# Why? + +After more than a decade using various "Cloud" providers +including all the _Big_ Tech (`AWS`, `Azure`, `GCP`, `DigitalOcean`, `Linode`) +and many PaaS such as Lambda, Fly.io, Heroku, Vercel, etc. +we've finally bitten the bullet and gone _back_ to our roots; Servers! + +## Brief Aside on Motivation + +There two types of motivation: towards and away. +**Toward** is the **_positive_** motivation such as getting fit/healthy. +**Away** motivation is when we want to _avoid_ something, like being unfit. +Both types of motivation have their place. +Some people are exclusively motivated by loss/pain/risk aversion, +while others are driven by gain/reward/returns and downplay the downside. +I go through phases of being super risk averse +and others when I'm happy to take calculated risks +that others who haven't done the math think are _crazy_. + +In the case of self-hosting our web apps on barebones servers, +we have _plenty_ of experience from the pre-AWS days. +Yes, this ages us, but the experience was formative. +And means I'm not afraid to dive in. + +I'm motivated _away_ from the +[data loss]() +we experienced on `Fly.io` +and _toward_ the high availability/affordability of `Hetzner`. +I know this will require some setup/config work, +but I am not deterred + + +## Recommended Reading + ++ `Hetzner` sustainability report: +https://www.hetzner.com/unternehmen/nachhaltigkeit \ No newline at end of file