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[parent commenter complained about 8 hour long downtimes and otherwise bad experience with Hetzner. He/she has since replaced the comment with insults to other HN users.]

Counter experience: 4 years with Hetzner from small VPS to huge machines and based on traceroute servers in different sections/buildings of their datacenters. No hardware issues or hourlong downtimes you describe (other than myself messing up software RAID configuration).

I'm having some servers at Hetzner (beside AWS and DigitalOcean) for the last 15 years and never had 8 hours of continuous downtime, so this really astonishes and scares me.

Could you point to a Hetzner post where this has happened? (so I can reevaluate if I might move to OVH).

I've had boxes at Hetzner for 9 years and have never had that much downtime.

For the record, I've had significant problems with network connectivity being constant at OVH's BHS datacenter. Even when presented with evidence that they're having downtime issues (repeated customer mentions on Twitter, New Relic reports, etc.), OVH refused to honor their SLA or even acknowledge the problem. I had a week with 96% uptime because of their network link problems.

I think it is much better these days