You think you secured your Hetzner account with 2FA? Think again
In this technical retrospective (2023), @hosteur shares practical architectural lessons learned from running, scaling, or migrating production software under lean constraints.
Core Principles for Independent Builders:
Defaulting to simpler architectures (such as monolithic frameworks, SQLite, or managed VPS) prevents early engineering bankruptcy.
Evaluating true compute and egress costs reveals that high cloud bills can often be slashed by 80%+ through judicious re-platforming.
Code you write at 2 AM as a solo engineer must be easy to debug six months later without complex microservice dependencies.
Community Debate Themes:
HN engineers debated the tradeoffs between cloud convenience and raw server economics, database indexing strategies, and resisting premature architectural complexity.
CATEGORY Frugal Engineering →
HISTORICAL ERA Post-ZIRP & AI (2023–2026)
COMMUNITY SCORE ★ 24 points
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Based on https://docs.hetzner.com/konsoleh/general/faq/account-migration they migrated all accounts to the new accounts.hetzner.com authentication in the summer. Sounds like that legacy login form should no longer exist.
Afaik KonsoleH is for resellers? My acccount is 10 years old, I manage 100 root and clouds servers over several accounts and organizations and KonsoleH is something I never touch (and my logins don't work there). That's not an excuse, but not all Hetzner accounts affected.
I know that their marketing is strong and their low end instances are cheap but once they started sending me letters over their domain robot and web console access sometime around year 2015 I noped the fuck away and I'm a happy person. One simply cannot receive quality digital service in a country where letters and faxes are sent back and forth, and where 2FA means dedicated buggy and flaky mobile app.
I read people moving away from Hetzner as I just moved in.
What other alternatives based in Europe do we have?
I'm currentkly using a mix of Hetzner and Exoscale.