A real-world production migration from DigitalOcean to Hetzner dedicated, handling 248 GB of MySQL data across 30 databases, 34 Nginx sites, GitLab EE, Neo4j, and live mobile app traffic — with zero downtime.
They’re the ones running a 10 years old database on a 11 years old os in a public facing server “because it just works”, not me
If it was a container, they could just tag a new version when the database went EOL 5 years ago, without being locked on what the package manager was offering
Because they used MySQL 5 on CentOS 7 from the package manager and couldn’t easily upgrade
They’re the ones running a 10 years old database on a 11 years old os in a public facing server “because it just works”, not me
If it was a container, they could just tag a new version when the database went EOL 5 years ago, without being locked on what the package manager was offering
Because they used MySQL 5 on CentOS 7 from the package manager and couldn’t easily upgrade