Whenever I see posts like this, I'd like to point out that both is possible at the same time. Full on self hosting your own cloud comes usually with a lot more

Whenever I see posts like this, I'd like to point out that both is possible at the same time. Full on self hosting your own cloud comes usually with a lot more services than "the" cloud does because thats usually why the hoster is considered "small". In Hetzners case you will for sure at least have to self host a decent RDBMS and it better be replicated, which means more maintenance and servers. But you do not have to put all your eggs into one basket! There are more than enough ways to split the load and you can even add dedicated servers in the mix too! It should not be "yep we are on azure, or yup we are on hetzner" but "my job as an architect is to combine the two for maximum value" ;)