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by TacticalCoder 702 days ago
OVH of course. Hetzner is a name that comes up often too.

Note that you can have a dedicated server, not just a VPS, for as cheap as 5 EUR / month (and you can go up to insanely powerful stuff with bandwidth and CPU power sufficient for 99.99% of all the SMEs in the world at a fraction of the price of cloud offerings). They automatically come with quite beefy DoS protection too.

These are remotely controlled: you can re-install another Linux distro in minutes. You can also boot to a Web console. I precise this because any time these names comes up some comments here invariably explaining that "I don't have the time to assemble a server" or "I don't have the time to drive to the datacenter to fix a failed machine" etc.

We're talking about companies managing hundreds of thousands of servers (since decades now?). They know what they are doing.