Migrating a Hetzner VPS to AnubizHost

Identify your busiest day-of-week and pick the opposite for migration. Lower TTLs on all DNS records 24 hours ahead. Snapshot the Hetzner volume from the Cloud Console as a safety net - snapshots are billed per GB-month but cost cents for the migration window.

Inventory the cloud-specific glue: Hetzner Floating IPs, Load Balancers, Private Networks, and any Hetzner DNS zones. Each of these has an AnubizHost equivalent or a workaround documented in the panel.

Order an offshore VPS that matches your Hetzner specs. A Hetzner CX21 (2 vCPU, 4GB, 40GB) maps to the AnubizHost VPS II tier. Pay with BTC or XMR for full anonymity. Choose Romania for cost, Iceland for the strongest privacy stack, or Netherlands for 10Gbps transit. Activation is automatic on payment confirmation.

SSH in and replicate the Hetzner-side package set: dpkg --get-selections > pkglist.txt on the source, scp to target, xargs apt-get install -y < pkglist.txt on the target. Replicate your firewall (ufw or nftables) and any sysctl tuning from /etc/sysctl.d/.

Run a live rsync over SSH from the Hetzner source to the AnubizHost target. Skip ephemeral mounts:

rsync -aHAXv --numeric-ids --delete \
  --exclude={"/dev","/proc","/sys","/tmp","/run","/mnt","/media","/lost+found"} \
  / root@NEW_IP:/

For PostgreSQL: pg_dump -Fc dbname | ssh root@NEW_IP "pg_restore -d dbname". For MySQL: mysqldump --single-transaction --routines --triggers --all-databases | ssh root@NEW_IP "mysql". Repeat the dump immediately before DNS cutover to catch writes that arrived during the long sync.

Flip A and AAAA records to the AnubizHost IP. With TTL at 300 seconds, propagation completes within 5-10 minutes for most resolvers. Re-issue Let's Encrypt: certbot --nginx -d yourdomain.com. Verify on the new host: curl -I https://yourdomain.com should return a 200 served by the new IP.

Keep Hetzner online for 48 hours as a fallback. Once you're confident, delete the Hetzner project to stop billing. Floating IPs and snapshots are billed separately - delete them explicitly.

Hetzner's policy enforcement is aggressive: a single complaint, a port scan from a compromised neighbour on a shared subnet, or an outbound email reputation flag can trigger a 24-hour suspension warning. AnubizHost operates from offshore jurisdictions with court-order-only takedown processes and accepts crypto-only billing for maximum anonymity. Related reading: offshore VPS, anonymous hosting, Hetzner Cloud migration.