And I have seen them delete my entire environment including my backups due to them not following their own procedures.

Sure, if you configure offsite backups you can guard against this stuff, but with anything in life, you get what you pay for.

You really need your backup procedures and failover procedures though, a friend bought a used server and the disk died fairly quickly leaving him sour.

I do have HA setup and Backup for DB that run periodically to an S3.

THE disk?

It's a server! What in the world is your friend doing running a single disk???

Ate a bare minimum they should have been running a mirror.

Younger guy with ambitions but little experience, I think my point was that used servers with Hetzner are still used so if someone has been running disk heavy jobs you might want to request new disks or multiple ones and not just pick the cheapest options at the auction.

(Interesting that an anectode like above got downvoted)

> (Interesting that an anectode like above got downvoted)

experts almost unilaterally judge newbies harshly, as if the newbies should already know all of the mistakes to avoid. things like this are how you learn what mistakes to avoid.

"hindsight is 20/20" means nothing to a lot of people, unfortunately.