Well, this sounds wildly out of touch. Companies using Hetzner cloud or servers having thousands of customers and paying 50-100 people are running just fine, bu

Well, this sounds wildly out of touch. Companies using Hetzner cloud or servers having thousands of customers and paying 50-100 people are running just fine, but you labeled them a "small pet project". Provisioning new servers works just fine via API when you need it. Source: I worked at such a company.