Comment by kazanz

I'm going to second the Syself (https://syself.com) recommendation.

We're running our entire PaaS platform (Sherpa.sh) on top of Hetzner with Syself. We are 5x more affordable than Vercel and a big piece of that is because Syself allows us to operate autoscaling k8s clusters without an army of ops engineers.

We tried hetzner-k3s, and many other solutions. But ran into many of these same problems. Syself on the other hand, has solved all the sticky hardware and networking challenges at scale with their own customer operators. Plus they're support is super responsive and helpful.

The one downside, is they don't have a dashboard yet, so you need to be comfortable in the CLI. But I'm sure they are working on it.

I don't think I would manage kubernetes any other way at this point.