Yeah, that's exactly it and the confusion/edit fits ;) If I'm not missing something those dedicated cloud servers are dedicated in that they are not shared ress

Yeah, that's exactly it and the confusion/edit fits ;) If I'm not missing something those dedicated cloud servers are dedicated in that they are not shared ressources, but can otherwise be managed like the shared "droplets". I was thinking that maybe the felt difference is in some additional services like block storage (though I think hetzner has a complete offering, without checking the details right now) or in the limitations of the scaling. Hetzner also has real dedicated servers and sure, your explanation gets the difference there. I appreciate that you gave the comment a real reply in any case :)