alt Hacker NewsI moved two servers, one from Linode and the other from DO to Hetzner a few months ago, with similar savings. The best part was that the two servers had tens of different sites running, implemented in different languages, with obsolete libraries, MySQL and Redis instances. A total mess. Well: Claude Code migrated it all, sometimes rewriting parts when the libraries where no longer available. Today complex migrations are much simpler to perform, which, I believe, will increase the mobility across providers a lot.
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Wow a Claude add embedded into a Hetzner add.
How deep does this go?
Linode is going to lose my business in the next couple months as well. Been there over a decade, have referred countless customers to them, but they’ve kept bumping up prices over and over and I can get a dedicated server at Hetzner or other places with 8x the memory, dedicated NVMe disks, dedicated CPU for cheaper.
Sure you lose a little of the benefit of a “virtual” server which can be migrated but Hetzner’s support has always been super fast and capable, should I wind up in a situation where I’ve got downtime.
I too, am bravely using Claude for more DevOps. I run all of my virtual machines on proxmox atop bare metal servers I own and I’m just blown away at how quickly Claude can optimize and set up entire new networks across all of these machines. Truly feels like a coworker or well paid sysadmin.
I’ve been experimenting with letting a local agent manipulate my remote servers using https://bower.sh/zmx-ai-portal
What’s exciting is how simple cli tools can be so impactful to dev workflows
Sure, and then you realize it deleted the db to "simplify the migration" lol
Obviously I agree that AI can be useful to write boilerplate, but it's in no way something you should use blindly when trying to do a migration or anything touching prod
So, to be more precise: no, "Claude Code didn't migrate it all". Claude Code helped you write boilerplate so that you could migrate
> Today complex migrations are much simpler to perform, which, I believe, will increase the mobility across providers a lot.
Syntax did a nice episode on this topic recently. They went over where it works well, and where it does not work well.
https://syntax.fm/show/992/migrating-legacy-code-just-got-ea...
Now imagine you can do that with a local model. You're basically breaking lockin on _Every_ end. Simply beautiful. A digital guillotine for the digital elite!
yeah, everything is about to be repriced.
IMO nobody was paying for magic compute. they're paying to not touch ten years of glue.
if agents eat that glue, the moat gets thin fast.