We’ve used Hetzner dedicated servers for many years now, but not cloud.

Our experience has been excellent, but we also design for the platform. Redundant dedicated networking, multi-AZ, networking failover, RAID, k8s, Mayastor, etc.

The worst issues we see are occasional scheduled outages of an upstream router. This will take out an AZ for external traffic for about 20 mins, but the internal dedicated network will ensure internal services all stay up and quorate.

It’s not cheap, but it’s still cheaper than AWS.

I think their dedicated offering is probably more stable as it has been around longer, and it is also much much simpler. They need to provide networking, power, and finance the hardware. All of which is very much solved problems.

(We’re https://lithus.eu, if anyone is interested. You can contact me at adam@…. I’m on holiday this week, but back next week)