> People assume it's true because it should be true. I don't think it is true.

It makes sense that bargain-bin providers would offer inferior reliability, but there are providers out there other than the big 3 cloud providers and the bargain-bin VPS providers.

GitHub for instance is apparently [0] hosted by Carpathia [1].

[0] https://github.com/holman/ama/issues/553

[1] http://www.carpathia.com/ (they should really fix https://www.carpathia.com )