I know AWS lightsail and hetzner cloud do the same, so yes it seems to be the standard way

12 months only of ec2 as per their offer page. You get 1 month of lightsail as well.

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Very legit, by Amazon.

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At one point, Amazon had multiple (many) 16-node and larger Oracle RAC databases, some of which backed the main amazon.com site.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/migration-complete-amazons-consumer-business-just-turned-off-its-final-oracle-database/

This is like the AWS problem - the UI is last-class abomination because specifically no one uses it! Lightsail is the equivalent for users that want a VPS. Otherwise everyone uses terraform, cloudform

didn‘t read much good things about vultr. Amazon, Google and Azure are out of scope. And load balancing / two different vps at different providers not possible at the clients application level.

I have tried a series of transactional email providers, like Sendgrid, Mandrill, Sparkpost and Sendinblue and my advice is to do yourself a pleasure by using Amazon SES. I am assuming you are sending

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Someone suggested amazon SES, any other suggestions, about 10 - 15k /month sent?

https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/pricing/

If I hosted at Amazon and Jeff Bezos personally hired a team of ninjas to watch my account 24x7x365, I would still do my own backups.

IMO your best bet is one of VirMach specials with some kind of email relay (Amazon SES or MXroute)

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* Amazon SES support

Amazon Lightsail.

1 TB of bandwidth from Hetzner for 1 euro is as cheap as it gets. Amazon or Azure charge like $80 per TB.