Hetzner is great, but it may not be the best choice for a social network that hosts user content and may attract controversy.<p>As a mass-market hosting provider, Hetzner is subject to constant fraud, abuse and hacked customer servers, and in consequence, their abuse department is very trigger-happy and will usually shoot first and ask questions later. They can and will kick out customers that cause too much of a headache, regardless of their ToS.<p>Their outbound DDoS detection systems are very sensitive and prone to false positives, such as when you get attacked yourself and the TCP backscatter is considered a portscan. If the system is sufficiently confident that you are doing something bad, it automatically firewalls off your servers until you explain yourself.<p>Likewise, inbound abuse reports sometimes lead to automated or manual blocks before you can respond to them.<p>They also rate limited or blocked entire port ranges in the past to get rid of Chia miners and similar miscreants with no regards to collateral damage to other services and without informing their other customers.<p>Their pricing is good and service is otherwise excellent, and if you do get locked out, you can talk to actual humans to sort it out. But, only after the damage is already done. If you use them, have a backup plan.