when you have 2-4x better network throughput accessing a computer next to you over WAN than over LAN .....

How are you accessing a computer next to your over wan? Assuming you didn't purchase IP space, you should both be behind NAT with the same public facing IP space.

@lungdart Mind the tags. In hetzner every server (and LB) gets its own public IPv4 address by default. Additionally I can connect them to a virtual network (like a LAN).

And accessing servers in the same LAN is reportedly faster through servers' public IP than through LAN IP.

I'm not familiar with hetzner, but it doesn't sound like it's right next to you. :)

That being said, is it a virtual igw? You may need to adjust your route table to accommodate the LAN or put an NGW between your compute and your IGW

@lungdart it's not like AWS. It doesn't have all those bells and whistles. In hcloud you can:

- choose region

- assign a custom virtual network (one that you've precreated earlier)

- assign an LB

- assign a FW

- attach SAN

And you can opt-out the public IP address. That's pretty much all you can do with a VM in hetzner cloud. So I can't really make fine-grained configuration, as it's already done for me. Ofc I can change routing table inside the server, but that won't do me much good.

@netikras if you opt out the public ip address, the only way to manage it is to login at hertzner using a web interface?

@retoor Either that, or a bastion in the same LAN having a public IP.

Beware, there's a caveat. If you opt-out the public IP address, you lose access to the internet :) There's no NAT, unless you build one yourself