@privateger@plasmatrap.com i mean there's knowing your hoster on a personal level and just interacting with them, asking them about specs and sort of their company policy. maybe trying out a vm or two. It's hard really. I feel like backups mitigate the issue of "just fall off the face of the earth" as long as you have a contingency plan (let's say you have servers at home that you'll restore to). As for <5 people company... eh? I mean it really depends on your risk assessment there. We're hosted by Jade running Nulled LLC and there hasn't been any major problems. sure there was that one time two independent fiber backhauls were cut 40 miles from each other causing a datacenter outage but yeah. I also know more than just one person has access to the physical DC... But at the same time, before tf.s ever was on Jade's stuff I had been colocating a server for about half a year prior. So I wasn't really taking a big risk by throwing everything on a server provider I couldn't attest the reliability of