Was that before their datacenter caught fire and their customer servers were lost or after?

Yes, OVH experienced force majeure episode. I didn't follow exactly how the compensation was rolled out. I know it was messy. I am not going to defend their actions, I am sure they could always handle this better.

Disaster recovery planning is practice we should all adhere to. Hindsight is 20/20. Not trying to be a smartass. I know it was painful for a lot of folks.

At the same time, unless you paid for managed service with clear SLAs, then responsibility is yours.

Cloud is just someone else's computer.

FYI: we started with OVH before the fire

When I started, no other providers had the K8s features I needed.

Still prefer Google, as they are the OG for k8s.

And power to you. You did what you though was best in your circumstances.

Today circumstances have changed. You need hassle free scalable DB, then AWS RDS might you best choice. Maybe.

You need open standard IaaS, well, there is ton of options.

Even before K8S, you had and option of Openstack with Ansible. Yes, very different beast, but still much _simpler_ and _cheaper_ than stocking on large number of IT professionals.