I tried not to bring up individual instances... but to your point there... I'm a CISO... My whole job is data security. My instance is 100% for sure safe... and honestly I probably have better tools in place than a good 80-90% of companies that you give all sorts of private information to.

I felt that point wasn't specifically relevant, but it's just odd that people treat companies as better than individuals in general... My uptime actually beats Amazon this year so far. And I'm hosting from hardware in my garage, which happens to be a cluster of proxmox boxes with a good dedicated 60 amps of power and 6+ hours of battery backup.

The datacenter my business is in contract with... I have better uptime than them... They've had 3 major outages in the past 9 months.

Businesses are not infallible... and honestly are likely worse to work with since no individual ever feels compelled to own up to the mistakes. It's always shareholders and money with businesses. I love working with vendors that are 1-3 man teams... They are ALWAYS vested and always do good work IMO... It's the large places that pass the buck everywhere they can and everything is always a shoe-string shitshow.

Just my additional 2 cents to continue the discussion.