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You can achieve something similar with Hetzner's recently introduced "vSwitch feature". Works across their different DCs, which is nice. Some docs here: https://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/Vswitch/en

I've been using ZeroTier to give a common backplane to my Hetzner servers, DO droplets and AWS instances.

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I understand this may not be an issue in your case, but vSwitches won't encrypt your data in transit between servers, unlike a VPN or ssh tunnel.

It depends. I've seen some shit on cheap bare metal providers, including getting ARP poisoned on Online.net.

Hetzner has been great overall. They've been very very helpful in documenting me reacting to abuse emails too when I got into some user-generated-content related legal trouble.

I really have to second the praise of Hetzner overall here. I have run a couple of their dedicated machines for several years and have nothing but good things to say about them and their service.

vSwitch is only, AFAIK, available on their dedicated servers (well, anything in Robot... which also includes their legacy virtualized product). OP is using their new cloud offering, which doesn't have an equivalent option.

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