I’m a big fan of netdata; it’s part of my standard deployment. I put in some custom configs depending on what services are running on what servers. If there’s an issue it sends me an email and posts into a slack channel.
Next step is an influxdb backend to keep more history.
I also use monit to restart certain services in certain situations.
My identity infrastructure alone uses a whole bunch of servers.
There are the three Kerberos servers, the two clusters of multiple LDAP servers behind HAProxy, the rabbitmq servers to pass requests around, the web servers also balanced/HA behind HAProxy… For me, service reliability and security are two of the biggest factors, so I isolate services and use HA when available.
I started migrating my servers from Linode to Hetzner Cloud this month, but noticed that my quota only gave me ten instances.
I need many more, probably on the order of 25 right now and probably more later. I'd also like the ability to create test servers, etc.
I asked for an increase with all of that in mind, and Hetzner replied:
"As we try to protect our resources we are raising limits step by step and on the actuall [sic] requirement. Please tell us your currently needed limit."
I don't understand. Does Hetzner not have enough servers to accommodate me? Wouldn't knowing the size of the server be relevant if it's an actual resource question?
I manage a very large OpenStack cluster for my day job and we just give people what they pay for. I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around this unless Hetzner might not be able to give me what I ultimately want to pay for, and if that's the case, I wonder if they're the right solution for me after all.
It also makes me worry about cloud elasticity.
Does anyone have any insights that can help me understand why keeping a low limit matters?
I set up LinkWarden about a month ago for the first time and have been enjoying it. Thank you!
I do have some feature requests – is GitHub the best place to submit those?