How did you decide on Hetzner and OVH and why do you need both?
Have you looked into others as well, like IONOS and Scaleway?
Have you looked into others as well, like IONOS and Scaleway?
Scaleway came up but is more expensive. IONOS did not come up in our research.
Part of what we tried to do was to make ourselves independent from traditional cloud services and be really good at doing stuff on a VPS. Once you start doing that, you can actually allow yourself to look more at uptimes and at costs. Also, since we wanted everything to be fully automated, Terraform support was important for us, and OVHcloud and Hetzner had that.
I'm sure there's many great cloud providers out in Europe, but it's hard to vet them to understand if they can meet demand and if they are financially stable. We would want not to keep switching cloud providers. So picking two of the major ones seemed like a safe choice.
I don't remember a single such case. I remember reading a lot of speculations like "it's highly likely that it was done by Russians" every single time without a trace of evidence.
It's undeniable that core European infrastructure is targeted currently
Personally I think the amount of special pleading required to imagine that it is _not_ Russia is a bit much (particularly around the deep sea cable cuts; at that point you’re really claiming that Russia is deniably pretending that it is them, but really it’s someone else), but you do you. It doesn’t change the overarching point; both Hetzner and OVH would be obvious targets for, ah, whoever it is.