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by andmarios 1308 days ago
That's what cloud providers want you to believe. :)

I have had both VPS and collocated servers chugging along for over 5 years without any interruption. In the worst case scenario where I would lose one of them, given proper backups, it would take me less than a day to restore.

Few of the deployments I've seen in cloud providers, kubernetes, etc, could do 5 years without downtime.

Sure, there are other costs, like scaling, finding people who can work on them, or when the dreaded time for an update comes... But still, a single VPS can get you very far for a very small cost.