In theory, I agree with you that cloud providers should be more comfortable and more resilient. It's just that my practical experience has been the opposite. B

In theory, I agree with you that cloud providers should be more comfortable and more resilient. It's just that my practical experience has been the opposite. BTW, I don't get commission, payments or anything from Hetzner. I'm just super enthusiastic about them because their affordable pricing is making me rich. I agree that it's a tradeoff, but the question was about small companies. And there I'd say 5min of occasional downtime are absolutely fine if it saves you $100k annually. And for a single founder, those 100k in profit will be kind of a big deal ;)