Comparisons
Kubernetes on Hetzner in 2026: Every Way to Run It, Compared
Hetzner has no managed Kubernetes. Eight ways to run it in 2026, from kube-hetzner and Talos to Syself, Cloudfleet and Ankra, and what each leaves to you.
Topic
Cost Optimization
11 articles tagged Cost Optimization, newest first.
Kubernetes
We Moved Our Production to UpCloud. Here Is What Sovereignty Actually Cost.
Ankra's own platform now runs in Helsinki. The timeline, the bill, the benchmark numbers, and the places UpCloud let us down, from the team that did the move.
Cost Optimization
Cheaper Than Hetzner: The Cheapest On-Demand Kubernetes on the Internet
Every Ankra Playground size costs less than the Hetzner server of the same shape, with Kubernetes, TLS and storage included. The math, and the fine print.
AI
Ten Claude Developers, a €350K Bill, and the Kimi K3 Cluster It Takes
What 10 heavy Claude developers cost, why one 8xB200 server cannot run Kimi K3, and the UpCloud cluster that could.
AI
A Managed AI Stack for Developers: Private, Under Your Control, Costed to the Token
Public AI chat quietly leaks IP and breaks NDAs. Deploy a private chat and API on a GPU you own: your data stays home and every token has a known price.
Kubernetes
AWS vs GCP vs Hetzner: Six Clouds, One Kubernetes Benchmark
We ran the same k6, iperf3 and fio suite on EKS, GKE and Hetzner and lined the results up against UpCloud, OVH and DigitalOcean. The cheapest node in the test won more than it had any right to.
Kubernetes
The Spec Sheet Is Not a Benchmark: Testing Kubernetes Clusters in 15 Minutes
Two identical cloud VMs measured 2.8x apart on CPU; one failed etcd's fsync bar. A 15-minute in-cluster benchmark suite catches this before production does.
Kubernetes
UpCloud vs DigitalOcean vs OVH Kubernetes Benchmark
UpCloud vs DigitalOcean vs OVH on identical Kubernetes clusters. UpCloud led on storage and network, OVH on latency, DigitalOcean had the slowest tails.
Kubernetes
Falling Behind on Kubernetes Versions Now Has a List Price
Three releases a year, 14 months of patches, and a 6x cluster fee when you lapse. How to turn Kubernetes upgrades from a dreaded project into a routine.
Cost Optimization
Hetzner Repriced. Here Is the Math for Your Kubernetes Cluster.
On June 15, Hetzner raised cloud prices, with some instance families more than doubling. A worked-numbers look at what a production Kubernetes cluster costs now, and why the real lesson is portability, not provider loyalty.
Startups
The Early-Stage Infrastructure Playbook: Kubernetes Before Your First DevOps Hire
'Don't use Kubernetes until you have a platform team' was good advice in 2019. The premises changed. What a two-to-six person company should set up in week one, what to deliberately skip, and what it actually costs: about zero.
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