Architecture & Compute: Stop Funding Rocket Ships
Big Cloud Features. Bare Metal Performance. Zero Lock-In.
If you are running on AWS, GCP, or Azure, you are paying a 70-80% premium for the illusion of convenience. We cut your AWS bill by replacing proprietary services with robust CNCF-certified open-source tools on dedicated Hetzner bare metal. You get raw CPU cycles, unlimited bandwidth, and zero vendor lock-in. Infrastructure should not be your biggest line item. Learn how our Managed Platform solution works below.
What is our Stack Architecture?
“Free” managed services on Big Cloud are technical debt in disguise. You end up spending hundreds of engineering hours navigating IAM roles, VPC peerings, and proprietary APIs. Complexity is the enemy of reliability. We’ve built a boring, proven, and incredibly robust platform using CNCF-certified open-source tools on raw hardware.
Here is exactly how our stack is organized to provide Big Cloud features at a fraction of the fully-loaded cost:
* **Cloudflare (Edge):** Global caching, WAF, and DDoS protection flat-rate pricing. Stops bad actors before they even reach the datacenter.
* **Hetzner Load Balancers:** Redundant Layer 4/Layer 7 load balancers routing traffic into the cluster.
* **Traefik Ingress:** Modern K8s-native routing and SSL termination natively integrated into RKE2.
* **RKE2 (Kubernetes) + Rancher:** The control plane and management UI. Hardened, secure-by-default, and 100% upstream compatible.
* **Hetzner Bare Metal & Cloud (Compute):** The foundation. AMD EPYC and ARM64 servers providing raw, unthrottled CPU cycles.
Why Bypassing the Hypervisor Tax Matters?
Why pay $400/month for an instance you can get for $50/month?
When you rent an EC2 instance, you are renting a slice of a server shared with noisy neighbors, managed by a hypervisor that consumes overhead. We provision dedicated Hetzner bare-metal servers giving you up to 64 cores and 256GB RAM for what you’d pay for a medium-sized managed database instance.
| Feature | AWS / Big Cloud | DevOps Squad (Hetzner Bare Metal) |
|---|---|---|
| Performance | Hypervisor tax, noisy neighbors | Raw CPU cycles, direct metal access |
| Bandwidth | ~$0.09 per GB outbound | 20TB free (Cloud), Unlimited (Metal) |
| CPU Limits | Credit systems, throttled bursts | 100% utilization indefinitely |
How does our Kubernetes Approach (RKE2 + Rancher) work?
EKS control planes cost $70/month just to exist, before you even deploy a single worker node. Our orchestration layer gives you true upstream K8s without proprietary IAM nightmares.
* **Zero Lock-In:** We deploy RKE2, a CNCF-certified Kubernetes distribution. Your standard `Deployment`, `Service`, and `Ingress` YAML manifests work perfectly here. If you ever outgrow us, your code and configs leave with you without modification.
* **Single Pane of Glass:** We provide access via Rancher. This gives you a dedicated UI to manage your clusters, deploy workloads, view logs, and handle RBAC (Role-Based Access Control) without navigating a chaotic AWS console.
* **Secure by Default:** RKE2 doesn’t rely on Docker; it uses containerd and is built for enterprise security, ensuring CIS benchmarks are met out of the box.
Curious about your potential savings?
Most teams save 40–60% on cloud compute. Use our free calculator to see exactly how much you could save.
discovery Zoom. We'll review your current cloud spend, identify what's safe to move, and give you an honest Go / No-Go recommendation — no commitment, no sales pitch. If the numbers work, we'll show you how. If they don't, we'll tell you that too.
Interested? Contact us.
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