Which foreign hosting company and what type of hosting to choose for a wordpress site?

Question

Network administration

The bottom line is that you need a host for a WordPress multisite. Of course, first of all, I want the site to work without problems and load quickly. Secondly, so that there is no strong restriction on traffic (ala 5 GB per month), disk space and subdomains. Thirdly, so that the management is quite simple (already installed some kind of CPanel with all the goodies).
Presumably, Hetzner is being considered as options. It has hosting (/webhosting), storage box (/storage-box), cloud (/cloud) and dedicated servers.
Dedicated servers give you a separate computer with empty disks, and you have to install and configure everything with your own hands (from Linux to some kind of phpMyAdmin). And for Cpanel still pay extra. But on the other hand, you are your own boss and your site will work 24/7 and load very quickly. Restrictions are either very small, or there are none at all (depending on how much you pay).
Hosting - everyone already gives you everything installed, and you use it. But the computer is public and hosts thousands more of the same sites. If some left site is DDoSed or infected with a virus, then your site will fly there too. And your site will take a long time to load or even fall due to the high load on the server, but it’s cheap and you don’t need to make any settings.
Storage box is like an advanced Google Drive / Yandex Disk / Microsoft OneDrive, but for all sorts of serious companies. So that they have all the files in one place and they can access them from anywhere in the world. You can't host websites there.
Cloud - this is when they took several dedicated servers and several sites, and combined them! And got something strange, which I still can't figure out. They write about some special restrictions, but there is no specifics anywhere.
VPS is something Hetzner does not provide, but other host companies do. When several Linuxes are installed on a dedicated server, a certain amount of resources of this dedicated server company is allocated for each Linux (indicated in the tariffs). And each user is the master in a certain segment. You kind of don’t really care about them anymore (as in hosting), but, hypothetically, if a neighbor is attacked by a DDoS attack, then your site will also suffer (there is only one data cable), but you won’t get infected with viruses. Well, yes, setting up is the same hassle as with a dedicated server.
Am I right? Or at some point I am deeply mistaken?
And it turns out that here the choice is either between a stable site and a complex setup (dedicated), or an easy setup but an unstable site (host), or a complex setup and a relatively unstable site (VPS). And it turns out that the best option is to buy a dedicated server, suffer a little, but then get a workable site without any problems. And VPS is kind of like a dedicated server for those on a budget, it seems like everything will work if there are normal neighbors. And the usual hosting is a reserved seat and pzdts, it is more suitable for business card sites and other HTML pages.
And the second question - Hetzner is constantly criticized everywhere. They say that disks break, sites are not hosted, they are bred for money, and for an accidental abuse they format your site without warning. But nowhere do they write alternatives to it. Maybe there are better companies? Or is it worse for others?

Answer 1

Good afternoon!
It so happened that I have vps on hetzner + American shared hosting.
The annual fee for my shared hosting (Namecheap) is $38.88. Traffic is unlimited, inodes limit - 300,000 (usually hosters give 200-240 K), Disk size - 20 GB, you can choose PHP version 5.2 - 7.2, MySQL (Maria DB), you can also run Ruby, NodeJS, Python applications, CPanel, Softaculous, SSH access, etc. I am very pleased with the hosting, although it never gets into the top 10))) 24-hour online live support in English and Russian! Servers in US & UK. Very satisfied... Payment by card and Paypal. Very stable hosting and in principle I had no problems with it. Moreover, if the server is heavily loaded, they can turn it off for a couple of minutes, but they will not block and terminate the contract, like some. Sites with 2-3K traffic take it easy. + you can connect CloudFlare. In this tariff plan, you can connect 3 domains, an unlimited number of subdomains,
https://namecheap.com
As for Hetzner - payment only monthly, 2.50 euros per month, works well. VPS skills are required to install the necessary software. For example, I installed Vesta CP (apache + nginx, mysql, softaculous, ip tables, fail2ban, etc.). I read a bunch of negative reviews and was even ready to refuse. But as my previous experience has shown, reviews are not always true. Now on hetzner I have apache, nginx, apache tomcat, nodejs and everything works fine.
1 minus))) During the initial installation of debian on hetzner, they have a qwertz keyboard layout, but of course you can change it via ssh =)

Answer 2

Yes, take any, shareds are all the same
I haven’t met with an abuse yet, but on all dedics, hetzner has at least 2 hard drives, which can be easily configured in raid-1 and if one disk breaks down, data is not lost and the disk is changed to a new one for free. If some crooked craftsmen do it in raid-0 and then complain that the disk has broken and the data has been lost - well, excuse me. Plus, there should always be backups, because no one is immune from disk failures.

Answer 3

As an alternative to Hetzner, I can offer KeyWeb, also a German provider but smaller in size with good Russian-language support, they first understand what the problem is by abuse and if you don’t do something illegal from a series of child pornography, then there are no problems