Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner: From $1,432 to $233/month With Zero Downtime

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. Why We Migrated Running a software company in Turkey has become increasingly expensive over the last few years. Skyrocketing inflation and a dramatically weakening Turkish Lira against the US…