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.
One thing is that I don’t know for sure if it is containerized or not
They wrote:
Being stuck on CentOS 7 meant we were also stuck on MySQL 5.7
If they used some kind of containerization, the native packages available for the hosts do not affect the specific version of MySQL that they want to use
They wrote:
If they used some kind of containerization, the native packages available for the hosts do not affect the specific version of MySQL that they want to use