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Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner: From $1,432 to $233/month With Zero Downtime
A Turkish software company successfully migrated its complex production environment from DigitalOcean to a more powerful Hetzner dedicated server to mitigate escalating dollar-denominated infrastructure costs, which had become a burden due to high inflation. The move was done using a planned six-phase strategy, which used MySQL master-slave replication and scripted DNS updates to achieve zero downtime and a lot of savings.
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