Thank you! The cloud servers are sufficiently cheap for us that we could afford the extra flexibility we get from them. Hetzner can move around VMs without us noticing but in contrast they are rebooting a number of metal machines for maintenance now and for the last little while, which would have been disruptive especially during the migration. I might have another look next year at metal but I’m happy with the cloud VMs currently.
Note, they usually do not reboot or touch your servers. But yes, the current maintenance of their metal routers (rare, like once every 2 years) requires you to juggle a bit with different machines in different datacenters.
