Don't go with Hetzner if you value whatever you're working on. I was working on a machine learning project and they deleted everything in my account without any warning. One of their employees did this deliberately because they weren't sure if my last name was correct. There was no attempt to remedy this by contacting me, and they had no way to restore the data. They told me that I would just have to start from scratch.
I got a singular e-mail that said I needed to address a ticket attached to the e-mail, which wasn't attached, and I needed to address this by logging into their website, which I couldn't since they deactivated my account. By the time their phone support opened in the morning everything was gone.
Adding offsite backup was literally my next task as well. I think I just got too comfortable from never having a problem with any other VPS host in the past. Lesson learned.
They can keep lowering the prices, other than spammers, hackers and an occasional dev they won't attract. Their staff is not technical, rude (too big to fail) and you have more than decent chances to land on a recycled IP that was used for malicious act previously.
Wow, this pricing is great. It's been a few years since I looked into Digital Ocean, it seems like they've made a lot of improvements since I last used them for a small Rails app.
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[ 5.1 ms ] story [ 40.3 ms ] threadYou get what you pay for.
Apart from that, having off-site backup is crucial either way and should be done with any provider.
Adding offsite backup was literally my next task as well. I think I just got too comfortable from never having a problem with any other VPS host in the past. Lesson learned.
They cannot be compared to Hetzner, more to OVH.