Leaving DigitalOcean

You already run servers. You can run them at half the price.

DigitalOcean charges roughly double Hetzner's rate for comparable compute, and a Kubernetes cluster adds an operations tax most teams this size never needed. Here is a typical account: seven droplets, DOKS, HA Postgres and Redis.

A typical DigitalOcean bill

$1,066/mo

4× gd-2vcpu-8gb droplets$288

Managed Postgres (3-node HA)$240

Load balancers, backups, bandwidth overage$204

Managed Redis (2-node)$180

3× DOKS node-pool droplets$144

Spaces ×2$10

Priced from published droplet and database rates.

The same workload on Hetzner + Neon + Upstash

$422/mo

Sized from the workload above, not a marketing tier. Saves $644/mo.

1× CCX43 (16 vCPU / 64GB, dedicated)$107

2× CCX13 (2 vCPU / 8GB, dedicated)$28

Load balancer$7

Neon Postgres (2 CU always-on + storage)$180

Upstash Redis (5GB fixed)$100

Egress (~2.2TB) — 20TB+ included per instance$0

Same amount of RAM on dedicated vCPUs, Docker Compose instead of Kubernetes, and the databases move to providers that price them honestly.

The migration is the product

infralift builds the new environment in parallel with your live site, delivers everything as Terraform you own, then cuts over at the edge, which is reversible in seconds for as long as the old stack stays warm. Moving the database needs a short write pause, minutes long and sized from your data. The assessment is free and reads your account with a scoped token; the migration is a fixed fee quoted up front, so the price in the report is the price you pay.

How we handle secrets, data sync, and the cutover itself: the migration process.

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