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Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner

isayeter.com published 2026-03-1710 min read

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.

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