Just a note, there are some companies that have been popping up recently to try to bridge the gap for services on clouds like Hetzner. https://elest.io https:/

Just a note, there are some companies that have been popping up recently to try to bridge the gap for services on clouds like Hetzner. https://elest.io https://elest.io https://nimbusws.com https://nimbusws.com (I'm building this one so I'm biased for it). > Would you say bare metal cost a lot of extra monitoring/maintenance, or is this something you did on the cloud hardware as well anyway? Do you run virtualization on the Hetzner machines? It cost a lot of monitoring/maintenance up front, but once things are purring the costs amortize really well. Hetzner has the occasional hard drive failure[0], but you should be running in a RAIDed setup (that's the default for Hetzner-installed OSes), so you do have some time. They also replace drives very quickly. If you really want to remove this headache, you run something like Ceph and make sure data copies are properly replicated to multiple hosts and you'll be fine if two drives on a single host die at the same time. Obviously nothing is every that easy but I know that I spend pretty much no time thinking about it these days. I run a Kubernetes cluster and most of my downtime/outages have been self-inflicted, I'm wonderfully happy with my cluster now. Also another thing to note is that control plane downtime != workload downtime, which is another nice thing -- and you can hook up grafana etc to monitor it all. [0]: https://vadosware.io/post/handling-your-first-dead-hetzner-hard-drive/ https://vadosware.io/post/handling-your-first-dead-hetzner-h...