[navigate8310]

Could you explain the "some effort initially" part?

[jurgenburgen]

You take care of disaster recovery, failing machines, the works. Getting a new (or replacement) machine from Hetzner takes longer than spinning one up on a cloud provider so you need to be able to survive some machines failing.

[esafak]

The usual bare metal lack of amenities, that's all.

[speedgoose]

Also no encryption at rest. You have to setup LUKS yourself.