[fduran]

Big cloud provider (AWS, Azure, GP) is great for all the managed ecosystem; if you mostly only need raw computing (CPU, memory, bandwidth), then a provider like Hertzner makes a lot of sense (plus they have API and basic services like LB/firewall and object storage).

We at SadServers moved from big cloud managed K8s to Hetzner + Edka and it's an order of magnitude cheaper (obv some perks are missing).