[apple4ever]

That's exactly what we are thinking too. We've looked HARD into AWS/GCP/Azure, but for all the reasons you mentioned we don't want to go that route. Owning the entire stack is so much cheaper, both money and time wise.

[jhatax]

Have you looked at OCI bare metal shapes? [1] Oracle Cloud provides the server, and you control the stack end to end (including the hypervisor).

If you run into an issue, send me a note and I will get someone to reply to your issue.

1. https://cloud.oracle.com/compute/bare-metal/features