I think the concern here is about congested peerings to certain providers, not uptime. For example Deutsche Telekom: They don't accept free direct peerings. Se

I think the concern here is about congested peerings to certain providers, not uptime. For example Deutsche Telekom: They don't accept free direct peerings. Sending data to them indirectly frequently runs into congestion issues. For a while Hetzner offered a paid option for better connectivity to DTAG. It looks like Hetzner added a direct peering in 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200205014018/https://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/Double_Paid_Traffic/en https://web.archive.org/web/20200205014018/https://wiki.hetz... https://www.hetzner.com/news/03-20-dtag/ https://www.hetzner.com/news/03-20-dtag/