> I bet it's also less reliable than Hetzner's servers, and is likely to suddenly die some day

I’m a happy Hetzner customer but I have had servers that I rented from them die a couple of times.

I rent physical servers from them that have been previously rented to other customers. At some point hard drives fail.

However, I have solid backup setup in place (ZFS send and recv to other physical hosts in different physical locations) with that in mind, so I haven’t lost data with Hetzner. But if I naively did not have any backup then data would have gotten lost a couple of times.

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KomoD 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Well, yeah, but that's not really a Hetzner thing. That's just computers in general.

Just monitor them so you can act proactively.

	▲	QuantumNomad_ 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Of course. Just pointing out that even if the hardware might be server grade, doesn’t mean one can assume that the risk of hardware failure is negligibly low. And that one always needs to have offsite backups.