> Yes, you get the benefit of backups, auto-restore, increased reliability etc, but.. How to set up HA databases with frequent backups and auto-restore is pretty common knowledge at this point.
Oh my god I’m gonna make this into a poster, my DBA friends will love it. But seriously these are not common skills — these are skills you pay $200k for and still struggle to find quality people. If you found yourself somewhere where the average SWE can set up a metal to production ready HA DB with turnkey live restores dm me your location so I can start looking on Zillow.
Also we’re just gonna gloss over that the AWS setup includes a HA managed load balancer that Hetnzer doesn’t as well as the k8s control plane.
Normally I’m on here telling people how not scary and complicated on-prem (ish in this case) deployments are but I think I’ve actually found someone who actually swung the other way.