Very nice way of putting it, kudos!

You probably want to store the backup somewhere else, ie. not Hetzner.

They are known to just cancel accounts and cut access.

Any proof of that? I am a Hetzner customer and had never heard of this before. Would be good to know what I got into.

A few years back I launched an io game and used hetzner as my backend. an hour into launch day they null routed my account because their anti-abuse system thought my sudden surge in websocket connections was an attack (unclear if they thought it was inbound or outbound doing the attacking).

I had paid for advertising on a few game curation sites plus youtubers and streamers. Lovely failure all thanks to Hetzner. Took 3 days and numerous emails with the most arrogant Germans you’ve ever met before my account was unlocked.

I switched to OVH and while they’re not without their own faults (reliability is a big one), it’s been a far better experience.

OVH also null routes, it has happened to me.

It seems like you have to go to one of the big boys like hurricane electric where you are allowed to use the bandwidth you paid for without someone sticking their fingers in it.

There are a lot of such stories if you go digging around HN and reddit threads. Haven't seen a lot of these stories in a while, so it may be happening less now.

Good shout. I think we'll also run replicas on other providers. We've got some complex geo-fencing stuff to do with regards to data hence why we're just on Hetzner right now.

How does it compare to GlitchTip which is in the same space?

Telebugs creator here. GlitchTip is solid, but Telebugs is built for devs who want something lighter and faster to self-host.

It runs on plain Rails, sets up in about 5 minutes (one command), and stays snappy even on small servers. The UI is modern, minimal, and actively maintained. I keep refining it to stay fast and clean.

The biggest difference is in philosophy. GlitchTip was built by an agency. Telebugs is a solo passion project. I’ve worked on error tracking tools professionally before, and built Telebugs to reflect how I wish those tools worked.

If you’re curious, here’s a short write-up on why I built it: https://telebugs.com/why

Happy to answer any specific questions!

"we almost quit multiple times"

It was a three day small task?

This didn't make sense to me either? If it only took three days for a complete rewrite to another language, what's the problem? Did I read they were getting interrupted for user requests? felt weird.

Probably because they have to deal with customer feedbacks and bugs on existing system. The stress would be huge, making a day like a week long, I guarantee

Any pointers in how you run the backups and Wal streaming?

Not the original commenter, but I've used https://github.com/wal-g/wal-g before for this and had a good experience with it.

If you haven't done so already, I'd highly recommend reading the postgres documentation about continuous backups before setting it up, as it teaches the fundamentals: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/continuous-archiving...

Agreed, came here to say the same

Beware of xss

Yes, in almost all aspects if you do not use the o1-pro. o3-pro is not available yet.

Does it require cookie and/or gdpr consent from the user to use these privacy analytics tools?

No. You can learn more about it here:

https://docs.pirsch.io/privacy

What are some use cases for this?

software testing. it's always software testing.