I have been running my business on Hetzner bare-metal servers for the last 7 years. During that time there were several brief network outages, on the order of m

I have been running my business on Hetzner bare-metal servers for the last 7 years. During that time there were several brief network outages, on the order of minutes. I think one network outage was 30 minutes. Other than that, no problems. Given the price and performance difference between bare-metal and everything else, I am puzzled as to why small businesses that do not need scalability do not go with bare metal. And given the speeds of todays hardware, if you are not doing something stupid and you have a B2B SaaS, it's really difficult to need "scalability" beyond several bare-metal servers. To be clear, I do not consider my bare-metal boxes "reliable", I have a multi-server setup managed by ansible, with a distributed database, and I can take a single-node failure without problems. I also have a staging setup that can be converted to production quickly, and a terraform setup that can quickly spin up a Digital Ocean cluster if needed.