Updating everything is already taken care of automatically and I have written down this here:
Backups are done daily. It is a feature you can turn on for your server itself.
Planning on a better system, but time🤷 also it’s good enough. Saved my behind actually twice😅
Disclosure:
I did manage quite a huge infrastructure in AWS in my past job.
And now I am in a company and where we build our own cloud as well.
So, some experience I would say.
So why hetzner?
Best price, easy and reliable.
It’s not rely a hosting package. You just get a virtual server, storage, network etc and setup your Linux system to run whatever you desire.
In our case ghost.
The big 3 (AWS, Google Cloud and Azure) are to expensive and way to complex for 1 server.
You even can get a good free VM from Oracle cloud. The free tier is actually pretty good!
But it’s similar complex as AWS I would say from the first glance.
That is why I don’t shift. Currently everything runs perfectly for less than 10€ a month. Not willing to put in the time for now as well.
Digital ocean is also simple enough IIRC but not hetzner has the better prize. At least for people in Europe.
There is also scaleway which has good prices as well which I used in the past.
I bet there are others out there.
Feel free to ask