I get that, I have had more server failures in AWS than bare metal for sure. Thankfully with ECS / Aurora they are all seamless, but running EC2 alone has to be something like 99.6% uptime max. Although I question how you are fully redundant and having downtime :)
I am an advocate for rolling your own hosting, we are getting ripped off by hosting providers, even DO is terribly expensive now. You get a much better deal going with OVH (and their other brands) than any other host. Not to mention you get to avoid noisy neighbor problems. But you have to understand what its limits are, and when to switch off that mindset.
Also running all your sites on one VPS is madness, the blast radius of a problem is 100%, when you should be able to easily segment by application.
oh we don't have downtime when one ecs instance goes down... we had it when the entire feature they offered went down. but i don't deal with aws for over two years. i hear it got better. we always had from day one all blessed architecture from their consultants-salesman, dual region, quad vps, green blue ecs deploy, the whole shebang
...i forget that but your point is very good. cloud is marginally better than DO and such. sorry i forgot people use these things since a pipe is so cheap in the last decades.
I am an advocate for rolling your own hosting, we are getting ripped off by hosting providers, even DO is terribly expensive now. You get a much better deal going with OVH (and their other brands) than any other host. Not to mention you get to avoid noisy neighbor problems. But you have to understand what its limits are, and when to switch off that mindset.
Also running all your sites on one VPS is madness, the blast radius of a problem is 100%, when you should be able to easily segment by application.