Or have a good DR strategy/a second cheap cloud provider ready, potentially giving you more reliability than a single expensive one (see e.g. https://news.ycomb

Or have a good DR strategy/a second cheap cloud provider ready, potentially giving you more reliability than a single expensive one (see e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17431609 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17431609 and the horror stories posted in the comments there). Harder if you're heavily relying on the more advanced services with often provider-specific APIs, but I think if you host with OVH you're likely to be primarily renting machines.