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DigitalOcean Spaces has the same API as AWS S3, and the download bandwidth costs a lot less. I would recommend it

Linode, Pair and Rackspace are established players in this field. (Pair.com is the oldest I know of).

According to Wikipédia, OVH is the third largest hosting company in the world based on physical services and the largest hosting company in Europe. They are not a fly by night operation.

And IMHO Hetzner is by far the best service provider there is for bare metal and plain old VM services.

Didn't know about OVH, thanks. A long time ago, I was advised to always first look at the age of the company when choosing a web host. (And then their financials and client base). I've found this advise to be a solid one. A lot of web hosting companies fold up ...

"Risk of data loss".

Is there anything that guarantees no data loss or zero risk ?

The risk profile of storing something in S3, where your data is stored in at least three different Availability Zones is completely different than a Managed Server or VPS where, if you so chose, it might be stored without any redundancy at all.