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by preisschild 500 days ago
Hetzner Cloud is definitely professional enough to place most production systems on it.

Sure, servers might die at times, but this also happens at AWS and can be avoided by using multiple servers in a HA configuration.

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Are you running a production system on it? One that makes money and loses money when down?
Do you?

Everybody I know is happy with what Hetzner provides, even at production level. OTOH, "arguably better" DigitalOcean sent me a "Your physical host died, so we restarted it. If it persists, we'll migrate" e-mail, which just shows the reality of the hardware.

On your question, while I do not have services on Hetzner yet, I manage a lot of servers, so I know dynamics of a datacenter and what it entails to keep one up.

I had enough trouble with them that I don't even consider.
Such as? If you prefer, of course.
You're linking this everywhere, but it has absolutely zero relevance.

Your beef is not with Hetzner, but whoever decided to run the service. Unless the customer violates local legislation or the hosting providers ToS, the appropriate action is to leave the service running, be it AWS, GCP or Hetzner.

I would quite frankly have been very disappointed with them if they had done anything in response to you request.

Yes, with more than 100 VMs on Hetzner Cloud.

It's highly available though and the redundant replicas run on their separated physical machines

https://docs.hetzner.com/cloud/placement-groups/overview/

Single machines die (and can't be started again for a few minutes to hours) every few months, but that's acceptable for me, and we also similar things happen at AWS.

Yes. Haven't had an outage in near 2 years according to our monitoring.
I do. I just rent 2 computers from Hetzner. One is main another is failover. If main dies failover kicks in while main is restored on another computer. Still way way cheaper than AWS which I would not touch with wooden pole unless required by client.