[vidarh]

I used Hetzner and OVH a lot, but I think DO is much easier from an API / speed to spin up instance perspective.

That said, one of the reasons to use providers like Hetzner and OVH is that as I've pointed out elsewhere, the price difference is so large that most people who "need" auto-scaling at places like AWS would pay less if they just ordered 2x to 3x as much capacity at a place like Hetzner and left it on 24/7.

Very few people have loads that are genuinely spiky enough to save enough from auto-scaling to make up for the massive cost difference.