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Can confirm - I've been using Hetzner for over 2 years now with no problems. I serve quite a large amount of traffic on an EX40 (it was costing me a fortune when I was with AWS).

Although a company I worked for had a Hetzner server where 3 out 4 of the hard disks failed. So it might be wise to do regular backups off-site.

This was most probably due to shitty Seagate harddrives, the ST3000DM001 which are failing left, right and center...

Quote:

Beginning in January 2012, Backblaze deployed 4,829 Seagate 3TB hard drives, model ST3000DM001, into Backblaze Storage Pods. In our experience, 80% of the hard drives we deploy will function at least 4 years. As of March 31, 2015, just 10% of the Seagate 3TB drives deployed in 2012 are still in service

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/3tb-hard-drive-failure/

Edit: They (Hetzner) have since long stopped putting those drives into servers and if such a HDD shows signs of failure they're replaced by support no questions asked...

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